India is already #nocountryforwomen but this is beyond vile, despicable. It is chilling as it is opening up space to question and down the line overturn the weight given to rape victims’ statements (esp death statements). https://twitter.com/mnshap/status/1314174020820951040

This is Republican-style war on women imported and being unleashed by Hindu supremacist media personalities and channels. Down to the violent populism, toxic masculinity, Islamophobia.

And we know how it goes, from simply watching the USA.

1. Whip up populist nationist hatred against a convenient other using a fictional (esp sexually) violent threat to ‘our’ women

2. Use the fear created to create discourse about protecting ‘our’ women and saving ‘theirs’

3. Make the discourse incrementally more masculinist

4. Use the whipped up fervour to dismantle institutions and legal structures that can provide protection to women and the other being blamed for the violence

5. Simultaneously embolden and enable your brand of masculinist to carry out violence against women at all levels

And yes this means verbal, physical psychological, institutional, social, economic, political, legal and more.

6. Protect and defend your brand of masculinist violence laws, institutions, structures while pushing an incrementally more violent media discourse.

7. Incrementally curtail all rights women may have acquired, destroy structures that can succour them, and ensure most of the violence of the culture war you unleashed is waged on bodies, lives, selves of women...yours and theirs

That’s it. How to wage a masculinist war on women in 7 steps.

Combine with your preferred brand of masculinist supremacism - White, Hindu savarna, etc - to achieve the perfect authoritarian violent state.

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