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#MeToo: How Does the World Judge the Wives, Daughters, and Sisters of Sexual Harassers?

As scores of working women accuse, name and shame their predators, quickly turning them into poster boys of hate for all of womankind, what happens to the wives, the sisters and the daughters?

Alka Shukla April 26, 2016

Gender

50 Shades of Greying: Ladies, Time to Retire the Compliment “You Don’t Look Your Age!”

We are socially conditioned to equate youth with beauty, and beauty as an accomplishment. But why not think of your crows’ feet and greys as sieves that filter out assholes who think women serve only one purpose – to be someone’s eye-candy? Let’s start by retiring “you don’t look your age!” as a compliment.

Purba Ray April 18, 2016

Gender

“Sharing the Load” was Just for the Lockdown. Men are Back to Being Men

Why do we talk about the men “helping” the women out at home, a friend asked. “Helping” implies that it is the job profile of a woman to run the house, while the man, out of the goodness of his heart, would attempt to “share the load”. As equal partners, isn’t it imperative that both consider the home theirs to take care of?

Rupha Ramani April 16, 2016

POV

Why Has #MeToo Scared Every Man

Instead of looking at the positives of the #MeToo movement, I actively tried to pinpoint its imperfections – by focussing on legal loopholes or that one woman who made a false accusation on Twitter. I started finding reasons to convince myself that there was something wrong with the movement. But why was I making excuses for sexual harassers?

Hardik Rajgor April 14, 2016

Gender

Will #MeToo Help Us Become Better Men?

Most heterosexual men are woefully inept at formulating their views about #MeToo. But discomfort is the beginning of introspection. One hopes this phase will lead to stock-taking, and provide men the opportunity to self-reform and become new, more attractive men.

Rahul Jayaram April 8, 2016

Gender

What’s Making Us Happy: The Decline in India’s Maternal Mortality Rate

Here’s a reason to cheer on a gloomy day: Our Maternal Mortality Rate has dropped by 22 per cent. That means nearly 1,000 fewer women die because of pregnancy-related complications in the country each month.

Arré Bench March 16, 2016

Gender

A New Wish for the New Year: #MeToo Must Reach Small Town India, And How Bollywood Can Help

In the small-town imagination, the idea of modernity is borrowed from Bollywood – the feisty Tanu from Tanu Weds Manu, the rebellious Rumi from Manmarziyaan. Where are all the well-rounded girls who are compassionate and caregiving, but fierce and independent? The limitations of this modernity will always come in the way of a small-town MeToo movement.

Manjiri Indurkar March 15, 2016

Gender

The Test of Blood: How Men Would Menstruate

Over the years, menstruation has been rebranded and claimed as the Man’s Syndrome. Ads now display “Man slaying enemies with the help of super XXTRA Wrestler tampons”.

#VALUE! March 14, 2016

Pop Culture

“Caution: White Men at Work”: What Game of Thrones Season 8 Writers Don’t Get about Powerful Women

Game of Thrones is like a relationship which starts with a very misleading Tinder profile. It rose to cultural supremacy by promising to “break the wheel”; now it’s just a mediocre attempt at celebrating a straight, white man’s newfound lineage, while undermining its powerful women characters.

Ujjainee Roy March 1, 2016

Gender

How I Learnt to Embrace My Mom Bod

It’s perfectly acceptable for a man to get broader as he ages. We’ve even coined a cute little name for the male, middle-aged spread: the dad bod. Then why isn’t there a corresponding mom bod? We can refer to them as MILJH... Mothers I’d Like To Just Hug.

Ashwina Garg March 1, 2016