In April, #feminist activist Kavita Krishnan was invited by the news website #Rediff to participate in a chat about #rape and the protests that followed the gang rape of a young girl in New Delhi, India in December 2012. The public conversation was soon hijacked by a user with the handle @RAPIST, who began to comment with statements such as, “Kavita tell me where I should come and rape you using condom,” repeated numerous times. The threats were in capital letters, impossible to miss. During the course of the chat, as Krishnan and others later pointed out, Rediff did nothing to intervene or prevent the abuse from taking place. Significantly, the abuse Krishnan faced seemed to have less to do with her anti-rape work or what she said on the subject, and more to do with the fact that she was speaking in a highly public forum—as a #woman.
Posted on: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 13:43:14 +0000
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