Three documentaries streaming right now show the ultimate culmination of the Bois Locker Room culture. And what happens when one gender is taught to mistrust its instincts of self-preservation and the other does not even learn something as basic is impulse control. At the Heart of Gold: Inside the USA Gymnastics Scandal (Hotstar) is a […]
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We live and breathe in a Bois Locker Room
We can’t pretend to be shocked by the Instagram group chats of young, potential rapists. There is a consumer base for rape videos in India, remember? The NGO, India Child Protection Fund (ICPF) reported in April that consumption of child pornography content in India spiked by over 95 per cent amid lockdown. That there was […]
Guilty: The Indian take on 13 Reasons Why
Ruchi Narayan’s Guilty, (now streaming on Netflix) is more or less, a 119 minute summation of the core premise of 13 Reasons Why. With a few exceptions made for the post Me Too furore in the Indian context. This is a quick and accurate articulation of rape culture where the final act is just […]
Nirbheek: A Solution to Rape?
I read this article in The Times of India the other day, with a growing sense of dismay. No – am not talking of accidents, murders or rapes. Those seem to be happening as routinely as clockwork, even now. I’m talking of Nirbheek (I believe that’s what it is called). Nirbheek is said to be India’s first gun for women, a […]
The Culture Of Rape
I have never lived in Delhi but every time I pass it on the way to my mother’s town, my skin crawls and not just because of the rape lore that thickens its air. After having lived in the South for the last 18 years, I cannot handle the brazen disrespect in Delhi’s gaze […]