I am confused with people who say
Outing molesters who use Holi s an excuse is an attack on Hinduism.
Outing Vairamuthu is an attack on Tamil.
Outing MJAkbar is an attack on Journalism.
Outing Karthik is an attack on music.
Outing Carnatic Musicians an attack on Carnatic Music The bigger question - why do communities shamelessly come together to protect their molesters. Are you all in it together? I mean what else do you all gain from protecting someone that’s identified as a molester?

We were discussing dowry stories on Instagram and this is the doctor edition.
Most lady doctors are forced by their parents to marry into families that order them to stay home.
If the groom has been unable to bag a PG seat the bride's parents need to pay for it as dowry. If the bride is "just an MBBS" then she is allowed to do PG *only* in streams that the groom and his family *allow* her to do. She is also allowed to work only a few hours and told her degree is useless vis-a-vis her husband's.

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Trigger Warning - CSA, incitement to suicide
Four 10th Standard boys in a Chennai, Ashok Nagar school have bullied, sexually harassed their classmate continually over the past few months.
Including physical violence, they have taken the boy to the school bathroom, ..made him kneel, forced him to masturbate, tried to sodomize him, beaten him up took a knife to him and asked him to kill himself or threatened to kill him and said they'll push him off the terrace (since there are no cameras) and say it was a suicide. ...

Thread alert: Actor Radha Ravi.
This small team that has been constantly been buried under cases by the Dubbing Union under the guidance of Actor Radha Ravi has finally been able to prove the charges vide a Labour Commission Order. The Labour Commission granted an Order against the Actor Radharavi and his Office bearers in the Dubbing Union to follow the principles of Natural justice when taking action against its own members and democratically respect the right of members to air their grievances.

Is it possible for a girl to share call recordings and evidences of dowry demands to the police without revealing her identity? Her parents won't allow her to file a case but she wants to.
How does one go about this? For those who don't understand the language - 'Aadapaduchu Katnam" Or Sister-In-Law dowry is very peculiar to the Telugu States (correct me if wrong) There is a dowry rate card followed based on status; plus a dowry demand is made separately for the sister / cousin of groom.

Students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds forced to work in schools has been going on for too long.
I am praying that her phone calls of cruelty from the stepmother to the child helpline are investigated.
Each time there is a case of abuse on a child - somehow be it physical, emotional, sexual - everyone tends to focus on everything else but the actual issue of child abuse. And how long term solution and systems can be put in place to prevent this abuse.

If you want to make things safer in the school systems at least, for starters

Please get in touch with your alumni groups, meet the authorities of the school you graduated out of.

Demand to know if ICC / PoSH is in place.

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Ask who heads the ICC. Check if the teachers heading these ICCs and POCSO Units have mindsets like ‘veliya sonna unakku dhan avamaanam’. See if they have a tendency of body / dress shaming students

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Trigger warning.

Several months after the Chennai Schools Sexual abuse cases, a 17 year old in Coimbatore commits suicide after sexual assault by teacher.

Are educational institutions going to take the issue of Child Sexual Abuse seriously or not?!

thenewsminute.com/article/17-yea… Instances of CSA come up in the news and then it is buried.

Did the school set up ICCs / POCSO units? Get training done?

Why do they all NOT GET IT??!!

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Years ago, when I sang Titli in Chennai Express, a superstar tagged me and said I sounded like love. If I remember right, it was the first time an actor, anywhere had said anything nice about my singing.
I remember laughing and crying at the same time. My mother noticed, and put out a long tweet, about everything she observed and a general thank you - because I am not the type to get excited in general for anything at all.
I went to the Chennai Express Audio launch. A person remembered that LOOOONG essay my mother wrote,

Proving a case of sexual assault is such an uphill task that hanging even Nirbhaya's rapists took 10 years.
I hope they find better lawyers and appeal this.
This case mentioned here took 11 years to complete.
"She didn't have to hit him so many times to stop rape"

https://twitter.com/beastoftraal/status/1449935048442998787

In Tejpal Case - "Complainant did not behave like victim of sexual assault"
In this Child Rape case, which took 7 years - "The 7 year old child imagined it." The accused, a plumber had Bengaluru's top lawyer representing him. thenewsminute.com/article/rape-7…

3-ish years ago, around Navaratri is when I named my molester. Nothing changed for him. A lot has changed for me.

As I run around with Courts thanks to Mr. Radha Ravi banning me - this I will see to the logical, legal end. However this image and many such public displays of power by a molester named by 20 women, across various backgrounds, with multiple others vouching 'He is like that only’ shows that molesters will go on with impunity. And they will have all the support they need.

There was this one post by a doctor that's been doing the rounds on Instagram. This one. And when I re-shared it - the OB-GYNs spoke up on what happens to women in 2021 that give birth to baby girls. 2/n

Have been generally chatting on Instagram on the Pink Tax. Women having to pay more for standard stuff.

Example - Razors.
Women’s Razors - over 200/-
Men’s starts at 10/-

1/n Our TShirts last 10 washes. Men’s T Shirts last 10 years. So long lasting that if you decide to make it a ‘pocha’ and then change your mind to wear it - you *still* could.
2/n

Thanks for tagging me. @SushilHariIRS
Does your school have an Internal Complaints Commitee?
Is your school POCSO compliant?
Did you have awareness & sensitization sessions with all the teachers, support staff & management?
If so, when?

https://twitter.com/SushilHariIRS/status/1397479266145619972

Who constitutes @SushilHariIRs your ICC unit? Who heads it?
Your school is also a Residential school it seems like.
Do you have a skill built committee in the school? A policy? If so, what is it?

லீகலா போங்கன்னு கருத்து தெரிக்க விட்டுட்டு இருக்குற மக்களுகக்கு - NCW-ல கேஸ் பதிவு பண்ணி, அவங்க 3 Reminders குடுத்து, ஒரு லேடி Officer வீட்டுக்கு வந்து, எங்கிட்டயும், என் தாயார், என் கணவர், மூன்று பேர் கிட்டயும் கையழுத்துல கம்ப்ளைன்ட வாங்கிட்டு போயாச்சு.
1/ மேடை மேடையா ஏறி திரு ராதா ரவி அவர்கள் என்ன அவமானப்படுத்துனதும் அவசர அவசரமா விசாரணை பண்ணாம என்ன Ban பண்ணது, எதனாலன்னு எல்லாருக்கும் தெரியும். 2/

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An adult that has some amount of power in the space of education, be it schools, colleges, tutions or as PhD mentors, abuses it to assault their wards.
Kripali shared reports of a Karate Teacher coercing a kid into ‘consensual sex’ which is actually r*pe.

https://twitter.com/geminiram/status/1396993636114395139

It is extremely tiresome when caste, religious identities, and whataboutery dances its ugly dance.

People who say what about Loyola when a case of child sexual abuse happens, ‘what about harassment in xyz religion?’ are taking the little space survivors have to get vindicated.

Also
I didnt check Instagram.

Instagram has blown up with students sharing reports of other schools.

Here is an Instagram Highlight on Chettinad Vidyashram.

instagram.com/s/aGlnaGxpZ2h0… More allegations from students of Chettinad Vidyashram.

instagram.com/stories/udhaya…

In Oct 2020, Joelgiftson shared screenshots from over 60 kids alleging misconduct by SamJaisunder & Reuben Clement of the Scripture Union.
The reason why Sam Jaisunder got suspended AND arrested was because ONE student, filed a complaint of what happened to her a few years ago The misconduct had happened to her when she was a minor, but she filed as an adult and her complaint was taken following social media furore and some fantastic press support.
It is important to report to keep Child Sex Offenders AWAY from kids.
newindianexpress.com/states/tamil-n…

I spoke a lot about the MeToo Movement, my being banned, consent, flirting, boundaries on my spaces last time. Here are some misconceptions I saw people seemed to have

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Kindly share and read if this is going to come up again since I dont want to answer the same questions 1. The stories of workplace sexual harassment, which is what almost all of us women faced - the women are PERSONALLY KNOWN TO US.
They were ‘anonymous’ to YOU. Not to me or the women who put a LOT on the line when we shared other people’s experiences of sexual harassment.

I got a DM from a girl who said she had her sister have been abused by their father from the time they were 5 years old. The mother couldn't leave the father since she wasnt financially independent. Relatives too said child molester husband was more important than the kids. TW.

I don't think any of us understand how terrible this is for the child and the mother because she literally has no way out. Imagine not being able to sleep throughout your childhood because your own father is sexually abusing you.

This is something I have never understood. I get a LOT of messages like this from really young girls about their own mothers and grandmothers calling them sluts.

What’s with this behaviour? And why do daughters have to tolerate this crap of being called sluts by their parent? Wear Nailpolish - Slut
Some nosy relative aunty / uncle says “oooh i saw her with this cousin” - OH Slut!
Any type of clothes WITH dupatta, slit and bra strap not showing - Slut.

I’m telling you. A lot of people should NEVER have been parents at all.