{"id":3522,"date":"2016-05-18T01:44:37","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T20:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=3522"},"modified":"2016-05-18T01:44:37","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T20:14:37","slug":"india-me-too-harassers-own-punishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=3522","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s #MeToo: Where Sexual Harassers Decide Their Own Punishment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"container page-content\"><p><span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span><\/p><\/div><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">t\u2019s been an exhilarating few days for me and my girlfriends. As soon as the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/gender\/angry-women-indifferent-men-india-metoo-moment\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">#MeToo movement<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> gained momentum, we moved between despair \u2013 that the people we knew to be perpetrators remained safe \u2013 and hope, as one by one they were outed, that justice may finally come. The last few days have been almost like a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/sports\/india-vs-england-test-cricket-series\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Test match<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 waiting for wickets to fall and cheering loudly as one more nemesis is revealed and shown the door. Phantom shut shop, Yashraj sacked its production head, Kwan asked its founder to go on leave, editors resigned across publications, and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/bollywood-housefull-4-cancellation-terrible\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">directors<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> were forced to step down from films they\u2019d started. Suddenly <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/gender\/womens-anger-in-the-age-of-me-too\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">women\u2019s rage<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, so long belittled as useless emotion, had consequences. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We all have our Suhel Seth story or its equivalents. We were no longer ashamed of them. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And yet, I still do not think it is a time for joy. What joy can there be when the divide between the sexes has reached such proportions that we cannot even agree on what <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/gender\/sexual-harassment-women-safety-eve-teasing-india-mumbai\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">harassment<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is?<\/span>\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/gender\/angry-women-indifferent-men-india-metoo-moment\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India\u2019s #MeToo movement<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has gone further in breadth than the American one that was largely restricted to Hollywood and the media. Here NGOs, artists, corporates, Carnatic music doyens, writers, socialites have all had their true colours revealed. Maybe because the rot here was wider and deeper and carefully hidden under layers of our shame. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This has left the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/why-has-metoo-scared-every-man\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">men<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> strangely silent. As I scroll through my tweets, I see an array of women, talking about #MeToo, sharing their experiences, encouraging others, offering aid. The men on the other hand are largely silent. An actor I think has depth based on his choice of films is promoting his latest. \u00a0The superstar I love has just put out a selfie. Male poets are still talking about poetry and historians about history. For them, life goes on.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sure some men have spoken. Farhan Akhtar was compelled to, after being dragged into the mess on account of his cousin Sajid Khan. Editor Samar Halarnkar defended the actions of his wife, journalist Priya Ramani. And both are good men. As are the few male journalists who corroborated the versions of the women who came out against <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/social-commentary\/metoo-the-women-who-brought-mj-akbar-down\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MJ Akbar<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Mahesh Bhupathi\u2019s statement on a zero-tolerance policy against offenders is heartwarming, just the kind of support we need from men in positions to speak out. Am I quibbling that he mentions his wife and six-year-old daughter as the motivation behind this? It is as if men without women, especially daughters to protect, have no stake in the movement. <\/span>\n\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\"><p>Their words, when they do deign to come out, are sometimes worse. They tell us that if it was a long time ago, we should have gotten over it by now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When the movement first began, I felt that it was not fair for men to be compelled to speak. Did men, like <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/social-commentary\/india-muslim-community-not-in-my-name-protests-lynching-quran\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Muslims<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, have to raise their voices and reiterate that they were on the side of right? <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But as the days passed and much loved men came under scrutiny, the women in their lives put out statements. Farah Khan, Mallika Dua, and Nandita Das continue to back the movement even as they juggle family dynamics. Women never have the luxury of silence, do they? Eleven prominent women filmmakers including Zoya Akhtar and Kiran Rao have come out pledging support for the #MeToo movement. Where are the men?<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Men are not just sitting tight hoping the storm will pass them by. Many are cleverly choosing their own punishment. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anirban Das Blah, the founder of talent agency Kwan that represents the biggest stars of the country, has apparently stepped down from his position \u2013 but only for the public. I received a WhatsApp message from one of the employees detailing how this was a farce, a means to save face and retain the stars they represent. It was conveyed to the staff at their town hall meeting that he was very much in charge, and it would be business as usual. And now comes in news of an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/people\/suicide-point-vashi-bridge-mumbai\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">attempted suicide<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a brandishing of conscience with a filmy end where the cops arrive just in time. The show will go on here and in other places, just the way it has for Arunabh of TVF who was revealed as a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/satire\/sexual-harasser-person-year\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">predator<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a couple of years ago \u2013 a few months after his voluntary stepping down, he was still being credited as a producer on a web series. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the end, names of companies change. People? Not so much. Tarun Tejpal in his infamous apology letter used big words that basically said how he was punishing himself \u2013 by going on a self-imposed but short-term sabbatical \u2013 and that should be enough. Only in this country is the perpetrator brazen enough to participate in deciding the quantum of his punishment. And most punishment is nothing more than a PR exercise.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Men\u2019s silence speaks volumes. It tells us that our concerns our not important. That governments are not built on the votes of women. That corporates can continue running businesses with their band of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/gender\/india-good-boys-parents-girls\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">mediocre boys<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Their words, when they do deign to come out, are sometimes worse. They tell us that if it was a long time ago, we should have gotten over it by now. That if it was not as awful as <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/social-commentary\/nirbhaya-delhi-gang-rape-men\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">rape<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, we should not bother with registering our protests. \u00a0That so much of transactional sex between older men and struggling newbies is <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/gender\/consent-aziz-ansari-sexual-assault-me-too\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">consensual<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. It may well be, but the system that rewards sexuality instead of skill is also a system that perpetuates the status quo so beneficial to the men in positions of power. And then there\u2019s the hoary old adage: Boys will be boys. When will they become men? Responsible, good men who know when to keep it in their pants.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I doubt much will change <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/social-commentary\/me-too-privilege-middle-class-india\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">on the ground<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> anytime soon despite what seems like rapid change on Twitter. Yes, fear will go a certain length to make institutional changes, but as the men are already saying \u2013 and as we women know \u2013 this will work largely at American-headquartered firms with strict mandates. At mushrooming production companies and start-ups, men have already found a win-win strategy: Hire fewer woman lest they be trouble. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Parvathy, the star of many hit Malayalam films, talks about how <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/gender\/harvey-weinstein-me-too-sexual-assault-rape-women-safety-office-environment\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">work has dried up<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for her and other participants in the Women\u2019s Collective they started a year ago to address issues faced by female industry members. Some of this is retribution for speaking up, a lot is just fear. Fear is not a great strategy for change. It leads to anger and hate. Those too will be the consequences of #MeToo, and we should be prepared.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019m not sure if it is a legend, but I\u2019ve heard over the years that Yashraj Films, the country\u2019s premier production house, has a policy to not hire women for production posts. No malice in mind; the benign patriarch apparently didn\u2019t want women to suffer at so difficult a job. And he was no doubt protecting them from the predators that proliferate on outdoor shoots. This week, they fired one of their top production executives in the wake of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/gender\/manik-katyal-sexual-harassment-at-the-workplace-emaho-magazine-india\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sexual harassment<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> allegations. How much easier it\u2019d have been to fill the production roles with capable women instead? Because protecting women is good, but if you have the courage to empower us, you may be our real allies.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is only a small victory we\u2019ve won. After every lash, there is bound to be a backlash. The fight will have to be continuous. We will not be permitted the luxury of being tired or changing our mind on issues or fighting among ourselves, privileges men take for granted.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But lets revel in the victory if only for a moment. The women of this country fought and brought a minister down. Imagine what we could do if the men joined us.<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why are India\u2019s men silent on our #MeToo movement? It is as if men without women, especially daughters to protect, have no stake in this. 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