Model Alanna Panday Says She Was Threatened With Gang Rape By A Woman But She Ignored The Comment. It’s So Scary That We’re Immune To It
They say, India is a land that is rich in cultural diversity. And if you take a look at the map and note of all the different traditions and cultures it takes into its fold, you would agree that it is vibrant and diverse. Except our country has gone a step beyond in accepting cultures, and now has the dubious distinction of developing a new kind of movement – rape culture. It is a whole undercurrent – a systematic suppression of women, ignoring their sexual desires and subjected them to the most vile, vicious comments on social media.
Inadvertently, the woman stands in the middle of this conversation, but not because it her who is being discussed but because she is subjected to judgement – what did she do to invite rape? As uncomfortable as it sounds, it is what the society has been passing on as sound ideology, by calling women ‘provocative’ for simply existing, while the men are left off the hook for committing unforgivable crimes. However, it’s not just the men who we need to look out for anymore, because there are women out there with thinking just as shallow, who like to part-take in victim blaming and absolve the males from any responsibility.
We say this after coming across yet another incident, where a woman has turned on another, this time Ananya Panday’s cousin and model Alanna Panday, by threatening her with gangrape. Daughter of the fitness expert Deanne Panday, Alanna recently took to her Instagram to share how after she posted a picture of herself in a bikini on social media, a woman left a rather unsettling comment on her picture.
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She wrote, “I’ve had a women comment on my post saying I deserve to be gang-raped because I posted a picture in a bikini. She then tagged my mother and father in the comment to make sure that they saw it too.” She then continued by saying, “I wish I had a screenshot but I was so shaken when I saw it I blocked her immediately and Instagram deleted the comment.”
She then said, “When I went to her profile to block her I saw that she was married and had a daughter a little younger than me. I don’t understand how you can wish that upon someone else’s child.”
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Talking about how she now feels desensitized towards such things, she wrote, “This happened months ago, I wish I had spoken about it sooner, but waking up and reading things like this just became normal to me-it’s an everyday part of my life. Here’s 1% of what I have to wake up and read everyday,” and we couldn’t help but relate to what she had said.
Everyday, as us women get attacked if not in the streets then on private social media accounts, we are reminded of how easy it is for anyone to reduce us to just our clothes and body and pass threats of raping us. And the fact that we have somehow grown immune to it, is only more heartbreaking, because it shows just how dispensable women’s consent is to society. No matter how many times we take out rallies and carry out protests, trying to explain how nothing makes women ‘deserving’ of being subject to such a hate and gender crime, because if today it is our clothes, tomorrow it can be our breathing and before we know it, we’d be getting killed for even existing.
