{"id":3652,"date":"2016-05-07T20:58:30","date_gmt":"2016-05-07T15:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=3652"},"modified":"2016-05-07T20:58:30","modified_gmt":"2016-05-07T15:28:30","slug":"online-troll-kavita-kaushik-police-pervert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=3652","title":{"rendered":"Moral Police or Pervert? The Anatomy of an Online Troll"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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nternet trolls are like cockroaches \u2013 no matter how many you whack with your chappal, there\u2019ll be some who will find a way to come crawling back. Blocking trolls works exactly like that, you can never get rid of them all. <\/span>\n\nTV actress Kavita Kaushik learnt this the hard way after she posted a photo of herself performing <\/span>yoga asanas<\/span><\/a> in a bikini, accompanied with a caption to shut down the trolls who had criticised her body earlier in the year. Back then it was a flab that upset people, but now her bikini bod has invited the wrath of the moral police, who believe social media operates under the same laws as Saudi Arabia, and women in revealing outfits are to be treated like criminals.<\/span>\n\nWhile the trolls who make it their business to stalk, harass, and threaten women online are all equally terrible excuses for humans, their modes of operation differ. The body-shamers are self-proclaimed <\/span>fitness experts<\/span><\/a>, who think that any woman who doesn\u2019t look like Victoria\u2019s Secret angel isn\u2019t allowed to post photos. There\u2019s the moral police, who\u2019ll post about how crop-tops on women are undoing the fabric of \u201cIndian culture\u201d while never once stopping to consider that the women in their lives wear a sari-blouse every single day. And at the opposite end of the spectrum from the moral police (but no less toxic) are the lurid perverts, who usually hide behind fake accounts and anonymity to spam any female in sight with their mating call, \u201c<\/span>show bobs<\/span><\/a>\u201d. All three types are an ingredient in a foul-tasting, misogynistic soup which is unfortunately served up to most women brave enough to share their lives online.<\/span>\n\nKavita Kaushik\u2019s case proves that even celebrities aren\u2019t spared the unique experience of online harassment \u2013 they actually make for easier targets. Kaushik is far from the only female celebrity to deal with these less-than-savoury residents of the internet. Aahana Kumra, Mandira Bedi, Esha Gupta… If having a shot every time a celebrity posted a bikini photo without attracting trolls was a <\/span>drinking game<\/span><\/a>, then the entire country would be drier than Gujarat.<\/span>\n\nWith so many different types of trolls, one would hope that they spend all their energy squabbling among themselves, but that\u2019s just wishful thinking. Though on paper, the moral police and the <\/span>perverts<\/span><\/a> should be at each other\u2019s throats, in reality they get along just fine. It\u2019s like a dystopian version of yin and yang \u2013 they\u2019re two sides of the same coin. As we now know, the police and the pervert can often be the same person.<\/span>\n\n

With the anonymity of the internet, trolls are able to finally find a vent for their sexual frustration.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\nEarlier this year, MTV ran a show called <\/span>Troll Police<\/span><\/i>, where celebrities were brought face-to-face with the trolls who had been cropping up on their social media channels with the regularity and annoyance of a software update reminder. Watching the episodes of <\/span>Troll Police <\/span><\/i>led to an interesting revelation: Several trolls often followed celebrities from multiple accounts, using some to give voice to their explicitly horny desires while others served as the voice of sanskaar. Contradictory though it may seem, today\u2019s trolls are apparently both as \u201csaint\u201d and sex offender sharing a single body.<\/span>\n\nIt needs to be seen to be believed. In an episode featuring Nora Fatehi, her troll starts out by complimenting her dancing skills. \u00a0But after his anonymous Instagram account is exposed, where he has shamed her for showing too much skin, he switches to telling her that his mother and sister would never dance like that. A similar scenario takes place with Mandira Bedi, whose troll joins her on stage in shaking his head at the nasty comments she receives online before going pale when a screenshot of his own comments is presented to him. Their identities are neatly compartmentalised into the \u201cproper\u201d and the perverse, and they switch between the two at a moment\u2019s notice. Social media provides their schizoid personalities with the perfect playground.<\/span>\n\nWith the anonymity of the internet, trolls are able to finally find a vent for their <\/span>sexual frustration<\/span><\/a>. This manifests in a plague of dummy accounts, where they allow their most explicit, offensive fantasies to shine through. However, their public accounts are reserved for being the upstanding agents of Indian culture they picture themselves as, probably because they aren\u2019t happy with the Sri Ram Sene\u2019s online efforts at this point.<\/span>\n\nSpare a thought for the inner conflict that these trolls must be going through when deciding which account to sign in to Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram with. It\u2019s not easy being sleazy, especially when you also want to be sanctimonious. But until this inner turmoil leads to the trolls spontaneously combusting, there\u2019s only one way to deal with, the way we always have: Don\u2019t feed the trolls.<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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