TAKE THAT, YOU SICK TROLLS!
Internet trolls who try ‘slut-shaming’ female celebs are beneath contempt, say Bollywood actors
Just about everything gets the Internet trolls coming out in hordes these days, and women’s bodies — the one thing that has agitated people since time immemorial — are a favourite target.
‘Slut-shaming’, defined as “the action or fact of stigmatising a woman for engaging in behaviour judged to be promiscuous or sexually provocative”, is the preferred pastime of trolls, especially when it comes to celebrities. But the good news is that the celebrities are hitting back.
Recent examples of slut-shaming: Fatima Sana Shaikh, for posting a swimsuit photo during Ramzan; Deepika Padukone, for her outfit in a magazine shoot; and Priyanka Chopra, for wearing a short dress during her meeting with PM Narendra Modi.
For such trolls, the celebs we spoke to have stinging replies. Actor Sana Khan posted a photo of herself in Mecca, wearing an abaya. Trolls sniggered that she’d soon return to films and wear short clothes, so why bother with an abaya? Sana tells us, “People who have nothing to do with their life, troll [others]. If they trolled Fatima for wearing a swimsuit [during Ramzan] because they found it offensive, why would they troll my picture [being fully covered]? It’s clear that it’s not about religion; it’s just about putting people down because you have nothing better to do.”
Outspoken actor Richa Chadha calls trolls “unhappy and irrelevant” people. Then she quips, “The [Indian] Constitution grants [the] liberty to people to wear what they like… or be in the buff.”
Actor Taapsee Pannu feels that trolls are attentionseekers, who shouldn’t get the satisfaction of being noticed. She dismisses them as “jobless freaks who have nothing better to do in life”.