Sexist Remarks pervade our everyday life like a recurring character on a sitcom. Women in 2021, are still subject to deeply misogynistic commentary dressed as compliments. “Don’t go out at night, it’s unsafe for girls”, “woman toh know how to cook”, “sir here is your bill”, comments like these keep occurring every now and then, […]
Dear society who gives you the right to dictate what is suitable for a woman or a man to eat?
New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took to the House floor to admonish Republican Lawmaker Ted Yoho over using a sexist slur against her.
Founder of two startups, Sharmin Ali has recently written her second book How I Was Forced To Become A Staunch Racist, which documents her journey as an entrepreneur. Importantly, it also highlights the brutal truth about the sexist culture that still persists in the Indian startup ecosystem. Her book also questions why most people in […]
We all face sexism everyday, in one way or the other. Some are very serious and extremely offensive and some have been normalised to the extent that it doesn’t really make us protest. [Feature image: ITV] In a shocking post which has caught attention on social media, a man posted a picture of two women in […]
You read that right! A Moroccan state TV series, Sahabiyat, shows women how to cover their facial scars suffered in domestic violence with the help of makeup. The woman, who is sitting beside her on whom the makeup is being done sits as if there is nothing unusual in the scene and gets the makeup done […]
Nando’s new advertisements have taken social media by storm. All for good reason. The fast food grill chain’s new ads are in bad taste. They perpetuate sexism. Describing their chicken, and comparing it to a woman’s body…these ads start with odd lines like “try something that shows off a bit of skin.” That ad came out on […]
