You’re a ‘bad girl’ if you fight rapists or go out with boys: New Meme
By: Meghna Malik, The Indian Express
Barely a month after the first ‘bad girl’ meme went viral on the internet, another ‘bad girl’ chart is doing the rounds on social media. The chart comes shortly after Leslee Udwin’s controversial documentary, ‘India’s Daughter’, which is based on the rape and murder of a 23-year-old student in December 2012. This documentary has been banned by the government of India.
Titled ‘Ek Buri Ladki – Rapist Ki Nazar se‘, this satirical chart shows 12 illustrations that depict the qualities of a bad girl, according to a rapist. Going by the chart, in the eyes of a rapist, a girl is a ‘bad girl’ if she roams around after 9 PM, fights the rapist or goes out with boys.
The chart further reads that a girl who talks in English, goes to a pub or files an FIR against the rapist is also a bad girl.
Quelle: http://indianexpress.com/article/trending/youre-a-bad-girl-if-you-fight-rapists-or-go-out-with-boys-new-meme/
Eine größere Version des Posters kann hier angesehen werden: bad-girl31
Sanjay Hegde (The Hindu, March 10, 2015)
For the past one week, we have been told that the documentary India’s Daughter has been banned. The truth, however, is different. The perusal of three documents involving official communication in the matter show that what has been temporarily restrained until further orders is the telecasting of an interview recorded with Mukesh Singh
On International Women’s Day, March 8, the news channel NDTV went blank with only a visual of a lamp, the words ‘India’s Daughters’ and a scroll running beneath it putting out statements issued by the Editors Guild of India and others. It reminded me of the blank editorial column in the Indian Express published on June 28, 1975. This page protested the censorship that was imposed following the promulgation of Emergency. The same week, the obituary column in the Times of India carried this entry: “D’Ocracy D.E.M, beloved husband of T. Ruth, loving father of L.I. Bertie, brother of Faith, Hope and Justice, expired on June 26.”
Emergency-era stories, of protesting censorship within the confines of the law need to be retold to a young India born since those dark days so that the message of the current protest acquires greater context and resonance. For the past one week, angry anchors, outraged politicians and the raucous discourse of public life have informed us that the documentary India’s Daughter has been banned. However, the truth is different. The documentary has not been banned. Yes, you read that right. What has been temporarily restrained until further orders is the showing of an interview recorded with the convict Mukesh Singh. This is the sequence of events.
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Sanjay Hegde ist Anwalt am Supreme Court in Delhi.
Unmittelbar vor dem internationalen Frauentag am 8. März ist die Debatte über das verhängte Sendeverbot gegen die BBC-Dokumentation „India’s Daughter“ (Regie: Leslee Udwin) weiterhin ein dominantes Thema in den indischen Medien. Die vielfach kritisierte Zensur hat die Debatte über sexuelle Gewalt neu belebt. Standen in der vergangenen Woche noch die Absurdität von Filmzensuren im Zeitalter digitaler sozialer Medien sowie die Äußerungen eines der angeklagten Täter im „Nirbhaya Gang Rape Case“ (zu diesem Thema: 2012 Delhi Gang Rape Case) im Vordergrund, so richtet sich der Fokus der Diskussion und Kritik nun verstärkt auf zwei Verteidiger, die im Film ebenfalls zu Wort kommen. Ihre Äußerungen haben die indische Anwaltskammer dazu veranlasst, sog. Show Case Notices zu erlassen, also Aufforderungen an die beiden Anwälte, die Beweggründe für ihr Verhalten darzulegen (zu diesem Thema: Show Cause Notice to Lawyers of Nirbhaya Case Accused).
Für den Indian Express kommentierte die indische Politikerin und Frauenrechtsaktivistin Brinda Karat die aktuelle Debatte in Indien:
FACE THE TRUTH
Written by Brinda Karat | Published on:March 6, 2015 12:00 am
India’s Daughter, the government need not be oversensitive about it.
The government repeated a charge made by a woman MP from the ruling party that this would “affect tourism”. This is rather like saying, save India’s reputation, not its women. It is sickening that the government should be concerned more about the loss of revenue and image rather than taking the right steps to make India safe for its women and children.
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Der BBC-Dokumentarfilm kann hier angesehen werden.