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We studied anti-feminist Indian groups on Twitter

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Emerged during #MeToo
Overlaps with SSR, Hindutva groups on #BoycottBollywood , Anti-Chandrachud campaign
Organized around Shraddha Walker by moving to Islamophobia
Top profile descriptions: students, engineers, lawyers
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The anti-feminist MRA (Men’s Rights Activsts) movement has grown in India online since India’s MeToo revelations on Twitter, it argues that women take undue advantage of laws and norms. MRA groups are active on Twitter, but many have offline meetups.
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What will happen if Marital Rape Exception (375-Exception) of IPC would struck down ?
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* In this thread, I only covers male POV, one of my female friend will soon cover female POV.
* I am not opposing criminalization Spousal sexual violence, especially, non-consensual sex between spouses or those in spouse like relationships.
* I does not contend that husbands/men have a right to impose themselves on their wives/spouses sighting marriage, as be all and end all of, implied consent to every marital privilege including sexual intercourse.
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Internalized colonial shame in India has led to a series of draconian gender-biased laws.

This has made in men *versus* women, replicating binary conflicts of Western culture unlike Indic symbiosis.

Then men trend #BoycottMarriage. Targeting men also hurts women. They're tied.
The aim of Left activism is to create and foster conflicts in society for "revolution."

Every relationship is written into a victim-oppressor script.

Also society is bad, and it needs to be fixed by "laws." (Man is a sinner, needs Jesus to redeem).

And those we looked towards to fix it did nothing despite complete power.

Because they were more concerned about “chhavi” than welfare.

In fact they added to draconian laws.
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