Yes it is. Because women’s empowerment also includes sexual empowerment, whether you like it or not.
And therefore freely, openly and without judgment speaking about female masturbation (like in a film) is important as well as empowering.
Or were you under the impression that only Olympic medals, women in the Armed forces and women celebrating the achievements of ISRO in Saris (as many answers here on Quora would discuss how that is “real” empowerment) was empowerment?
Oh but no. Sexual empowerment, reproductive one (accessibility of contraception and abortions), financial empowerment, social empowerment, etc, all are important. In equal measure.
There was this meme circulating, which was quite funny and uncannily true! It was about a child asking the parents as to how lesbian sex works and the mom answers it with “Both the people cum”!
One of the biggest gaps between men and women is the fact that men are getting off almost 100% of the times as opposed to women, who rarely get off in heterosexual sex.
Only 7.9% of women between the ages of 25 and 29 masturbate two to three times a week.
Even the average age of masturbation for the first time varies a lot between men and women.
There is in fact still a lot more to be known and understood about the female orgasm as scientists are divided and Freudian ideas (about the female orgasm), even though utterly ridiculous, are still quite prevalent.
In the backdrop of all this, if a film depicts female masturbation as an utterly natural act, just as male masturbation is, it is indeed empowering.
And all those who think they have better ideas about what is “real” empowerment of women, are free to not watch the film if it affects their sensibilities.
Female masturbation existed long before Freud claimed that clitoral stimulation was juvenile and it shall exist even after every woman on this planet was utterly satisfied with her heterosexual sex life.
Just like male masturbation.