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How to Spot a Faux Feminist

The highly educated, the upper-middle-class millennial... no one is free from stereotyping gender. Best described as faux feminists, they are concentrated mostly in the metros. You’ll hear them say something completely “harmless”, for instance, “Girls LOVE shopping!” or “ Women CAN’T drive.”

Devrupa Rakshit June 7, 2016

Gender

Dear SRK, I was Molested outside Mannat. On Your Birthday

We’ve all heard the familiar condescending voice of a female Bombay-ite telling a Dilliwali, “Oh please, at least in my city, I am safe.” I have been that person. That changed on Shah Rukh Khan's birthday, after I was molested by a mob outside his house.

Lavanya Jayashankar June 4, 2016

POV

Sexist Kitchens: Why We Indian Men Rarely Make For Good Home Cooks

A sexist kitchen is not some overbearing patriarchs keeping women downtrodden with the backbreaking labour of roti making. It’s a much more innocent situation that you might have even experienced at your own home.

Aditya Bhalla June 1, 2016

Gender

Why Do Men Spread Their Legs and Women Cross Theirs?

In India, years of conditioning demand women to be submissive and almost invisible in public, while boys are rarely made conscious of their bodies. As a result, young boys grow up to become adults who don’t think twice before taking up extra space even at the cost of someone else’s inconvenience.

Amrita Paul May 26, 2016

Columns

SummArré: Sabarimala, #MeToo Part Two, and a Look Back at the Week That Was

In India, every day presents a new diversion, a new amusement. This week, we discovered the Kauravas were “test-tube babies” in a giant leap backward for science, and Kerala’s “Women’s Wall” protest against the violence at Sabarimala, showed us how to do solidarity.

Karanjeet Kaur May 17, 2016

Gender

PJs I Love You: The Joy of Being Jhalla in Your Tattered Pyjama

When Sinead O’Connor sang “Nothing Compares to You” for her love that walked out of her life, she had obviously not discovered the orgasmic pleasure of slipping into soft pyjamas and a braless tee. Especially when the pyjama is as old as the Big Bang and the top has as many holes as there are stars in the sky

Purba Ray May 17, 2016

Features

Dear Men’s Grooming Brands, When Will the Macho Ad Guy Finally Man Up?

There’s no way any woman on earth would respond well to the boorish, juvenile guys in most men’s grooming ads. So why do shampoo commercials and shaving cream ads insist on shoving the trope of the tiresome manchild down our throats?

Arré Bench May 9, 2016

Pop Culture

Ranveer Singh is Changing the Rules of Engagement

Singh is known for making bold choices, but the fact that a man who is often inarticulate and carries a messy energy, the decision to bare it all opens a door for expression where none presumably existed.

Takshi Mehta May 2, 2016

Bollywood

30 Years of ChaalBaaz: The Sridevi Classic is Proof that Good Comedy Has Nothing to Do with Gender

ChaalBaaz is not a Rajinikant movie or a Sunny Deol movie. It’s instead a Sridevi movie. She is indeed the superstar, the good old “Michaeli Jacksoni”, who single-handedly drives the movie through her impeccable comic timing.

Runjhun Noopur April 16, 2016

Gender

A Step-by-Step Guide to Walking Out of an Abusive Marriage

Why didn’t you fight back when you were slapped and your earring fell off? Why are you still around, crying pathetic pools of tears and snot? Why aren’t you doing what your head tells you to and leave? How did you just become a statistic of physical abuse?

Life 13 April 15, 2016