Just recently, I penned a post about how parents could do their bit against the Rape Culture in raising children to be more sensitive and empathetic. The Chetan Bhagat tweet saga on Twitter was a classic example to the contrary. Mr Bhagat tweeted, “The Rupee is asking, is there no punishment for my rapists ?” He later, in his inimitable style, went on to say that it had been a harmless tweet and he had just used “rape” as a metaphor. As simple as that and then, without as much as an apology, he proceeded to delete his tweet. Simile or metaphor aside, one simply does not joke about something as violating and monstrous as rape.
Posted on: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 09:27:56 +0000
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