Harsha Bhogle Slammed Over New Tweet, Criticised For Being Misogynistic

Harsha Bhogle, an Indian cricket commentator recently wrote a post addressing a woman's query about using word "girl" in one of his recent tweets. Thereafter comments  started pouring in on micro-aggression.

Harsha Bhogle in the following tweet wrote, "Some women have reached out to tell me that my choice of the word "girl" in a recent tweet could, even if unintentional, as it was, be offensive. I am sorry and thanks for telling me. I am putting this in the public domain so that other men are aware that it could hurt. Thanks."

Harsha Bhogle Tweet

The tweet has received mixed reactions. A user defended Bhogle and wrote, "You can't even begin to count how many times 'boys' is used in sports, and I assure you, not one dude gives a fuck. How can your egos be so fucking fragile. Get a grip honestly." And few users called out on feminism and wrote, "That’s classic case of feminism and when the time comes these same so called feminists will hide behind the curtain."

But before reading these one needs to take look at his previous tweet which the women might have addressed. Bhogle tweeted, "I find it very disturbing that a very large section of the media in England is asking questions of a girl who played by the laws of the game & none at all of another who was gaining an illegal advantage and was a habitual offender. That includes reasonable people & I think."  The tweet came in support of Indian Cricket Team Bowler Deepti Sharma's controversial wicket.

The girl was used to refer to Deepti Sharma. Nothing was wrong with using girl, but cricketer could have been a suitable choice. Instead of rectifying the tweet. Harsha Bhogle went on posting another tweet, which could be interpreted as condescending or a sarcastic take on what a woman's concern was on the 'girl' term. That's where micro-aggression come in.

Rituparna Chatterjee thanked Harsha Bhogle and shared his tweet on her and slammed users for spilling misogyny through comments. She said, "A man apologized for calling grown women girls and literally that's all it took for feminists and fem-allies to profusely thank him (including me) for simply correcting a wrong. Been thinking about this. He did the right thing but imagine how low our expectations are of men." And no, saying sorry doesn't make him 'woke' it's just is a decent thing to do.

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