Sexism, closeted or otherwise, has an unfortunate but almost inevitable presence in Indian Family Whatsapp Groups. Growing up in a middle-class family, I was added to my family WhatsApp group when I was 17. The always ongoing conversations never fascinated me, and the usual birthday messages were always dreaded. I naturally muted the text notifications […]
Trolling culture and its astonishing sexist traits
This post is written by Ritabrata Roy who is a Doctoral Tutor at University of Sussex, Law School. Women with a public platform get more shit than their male counterparts. And now what’s long been known through anecdote and, in some cases, unpleasant direct experience has some numbers behind it. In a study of the […]
The romance between Indian Ads and Sexism
This post is written by Ramsha Hashmi of Tamil Nadu National Law University, India The age old adverb in advertisement has been that “sex sells”. However, Indian advertisements have proved that misogyny, sexism and violence sell equally well. Lets take a deep dive into the sexist Indian ads over the years. The recent controversy around […]