Please read the thread by @AudreyTruschke, and this one by me. The verdict that convicted Mahmood Farooqui of rape was a landmark one like the #PriyaRamani one of yesterday. The Feeble No verdict that overturned it is an affront to our legal system.
https://twitter.com/AudreyTruschke/status/1363116053610528773
I had in mind the Farooqui case when I wrote yesterday about "campaigns (across political aisles) claiming that the amendments to India’s sexual violence laws in 2013 are “draconian” when applied to privileged men." indianexpress.com/article/opinio…
Remember, men's reputations survive even rape convictions. They survive even when the man has argued in trial court that he did not touch the woman, to turn around & be acquitted in the HC on the basis that he assumed she consented since her No was too feeble.
Today, as you show solidarity with #PriyaRamani & @ghazalawahab, raise a toast to the survivor in the Farooqui case as well. Her sterling truth was recognised by the only judge who heard her. Respect her reputation as a scholar, survivor, human being scroll.in/article/876788…
In the Farooqui case, the Tejpal case and many others, survivors & feminists who stood with them have faced organised online & offline bullying of the worst kind from friends of the accused (in my case, it was far harder to deal with than anonymous RW dirt.)
Also remember, these men call themselves secular heroes and accuse their victims of being BJP plants. But Farooqui & friends had no qualms about the likes of the fascist Madhu Kishwar batting for him by attacking the rape law. Read about it here m.facebook.com/nt/screen/?par…
Finally, remember that India's current Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, the honourable Bobde, refused to entertain an appeal against the Feeble No verdict, offering a series of victim blaming reasons. dailyo.in/politics/mahmo…
I probably know the answer, already, but will ask anyway - @NamitaGokhale_ @SanjoyRoyTWA @DalrympleWill is it your case that it's OK for a man to assume that a woman's No might mean a Yes? Is the #JLF2021 a space where women should know that their No isn't respected as a No? 
Oh and here's an analysis of why the trial court verdict convicting Farooqui was a pathbreaking one. The HC and our current CJI moved fast & brutally to bar that path. kafila.online/2016/08/14/the…
When I wrote yesterday that those who accuse victims of harming the reputations of celebrated men, hold "reputations of the women are as too puny to count", I had in mind the way in which supporters of both Tejpal and Farooqui spread the lie that the survivors were BJP honeytraps
In both the Tejpal and the Farooqui case, the survivors are committed anti fascists, with reputations in their respective fields of journalism & scholarship. Yet, the canard was spread about them, that they were planted by the BJP to smear "good secular men".
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