Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi is the current favourite of the ire of Men’s Rights Activists, trolled for the second time in two months over her alleged preferential treatment of well, women.
On Tuesday, she tweeted from her official handle, asking women who have faced online abuse to send her an email. It is unknown if she got any emails from women, but that one question unleashed on Twitter, the same vicious tirade of misogyny that many women experience online.
Are you a woman who is trolled or abused? Inform me at gandhim@nic.in.
— Maneka Gandhi (@Manekagandhibjp) July 5, 2016
These are some of the responses she got.
@votemodinextpm @ExSecular @Manekagandhibjp When we have gender biased laws, we can't expect Ms.Gandhi to be different. Men can go to hell.
— Mohan Ramchandani (@mohan_melody) July 5, 2016
@votemodinextpm @Manekagandhibjp saving Ram is as imp as saving Sita, & punishing ravan as imp as surupnakha.Why gender coming in picture
— Sachin Aggarwal (@sacaggarwal) July 5, 2016
@mohan_melody @ExSecular @Manekagandhibjp we must save sita not surpnakhas..
— shivendra singh (@votemodinextpm) July 5, 2016
Dear @Manekagandhibjp where to report if women abuse or troll men? @PMOindia @narendramodi #GenuineQuestion pic.twitter.com/zJnqMRYtky
— shailendra singh (@shaksingh) July 5, 2016
@akil_bakhshi @kamineyf @Manekagandhibjp Madam where do men complain when they are trolled
— Being Misquoted (@SandipThink) July 6, 2016
@SandipThink @akil_bakhshi @Manekagandhibjp this is no country for men.
— DEEPAK DHABHAI (@kamineyf) July 6, 2016
#NoCountryForMen Thankyou @Manekagandhibjp for making it clear that MEN need to join MRAs or take abuses w/o a word pic.twitter.com/bSwMliWDdB
— Dhongi Monk™ (@DhongiMonk) July 5, 2016
Even KRK couldn't help himself.
Respected madam Ji @Manekagandhibjp too many people troll me everyday so whom I should inform pls? https://t.co/QaBGiJdfFD
— KRK (@kamaalrkhan) July 5, 2016
This the second time Maneka has been trolled on social media. When the Minister held a Facebook chat on the draft of the National Policy for Women which had been uploaded on its website for public consultation, men’s rights activists had hijacked the conversation.
Comments about ‘concerns’ over gender bias, the “unconstitutional” nature of the policy, and demands to know about the national policy for men, abounded.