Have Indian men lost it? That is how one would react if they were to hear some abjectly sexist and senseless remarks made in public. There is no dearth of politicians or bureaucrats, who exhibit their misogynist and chauvinistic side, only to
Though on a different occasion, BSP MLA Rajpal Saini almost echoed Mulayam Singh Yadav's (in pic) age-old sentiment. “There is no need to give phones to women and children. Why do women need phones? If you have given phones to them, take them back.
Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav: "Only girls and women from affluent class can go forward...remember this..you (rural women) will not get a chance...Our rural women did not have that much attraction." There were no takers for his defence
West Bengal MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar once dismissed the infamous rape case in Park Street in Kolkata as a "misunderstanding between a lady and her client and not a rape".
Uttar Pradesh Tourism Minister Om Prakash Singh told the people of Uttar Pradesh about their CM Mayawati: "You people are very brave. When you can tolerate a woman with Mayawati's face for five years, surely you can give us some time too."
Union Minister Vayalar Ravi was forced to apologise for his behaviour with a scribe, who wanted his reaction to Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairperson PJ Kurien's alleged involvement in the Suryanelli gangrape case. He posed her this question: "Do you have
Om Prakash Chautala, former Chief Minister of Haryana: “We should learn from the past, especially in Mughal era, people used to marry their girls to save them from Mughal atrocities and currently a similar situation is arising in the state. Marriage
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi faced flak for his girlfriend remark against Congress leader Shashi Tharoor's wife Sunanda Pushkar. "What a girlfriend? Have you ever seen a 50-crore girlfriend?" Modi said at an election rally. Tharoor was quick
Even in cricket, coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal drew an analogy to wife. After India's victory over Pakistan in an ICC World Twenty20 match, he said: “New victories and new weddings both have their own importance. As time passes, the joy of the
Months after those remarks, Asaram Bapu was charged with rape charges. Even so weirdly, his lawyer Ram Jethmalani came up with this defense, saying the 16-year-old rape victim was afflicted with a chronic disease which draws a woman to a man.
After the Delhi gang-rape, godman Asaram Bapu said the student could have averted the rape. "If she had pleaded with her six attackers in God's name, and told them she was of the "weaker sex", they would have relented."
On the gang-rape victim, whom rapists had brutally beaten up with iron rods, Botsa had this to say: "The woman should have thought twice before boarding the suspicious private bus that night. Though the incident was condemnable, she should also have
After the Delhi gang-rape, AP Congress chief Botsa Satyanarayan blamed women for rapes. “Just because India achieved freedom at midnight does not mean that women can venture out after dark. They should ensure that they do not board buses with few
"What’s basically happening in Delhi is something like pink revolution, which has very little connection with ground realities. Dented-painted women protesters in Delhi went to discotheques and then turned up at India Gate to express outrage,’’ said
At a time when the whole country was shocked by the ghastly gang-rape of a paramedical student on a moving bus in Delhi, MP and Pranab Mukherjee's son Abhijit Mukherjee enraged women with his "dented and painted' remark.
Digvijay said: "Our party MP, Meenakshi Natrajan is a Gandhian, simple and an honest leader. She keeps going from place to place in her constituency. I am a seasoned smith of politics. Meenakshi Sou Tanch Khara Maal Hai (totally pure)." Even
Shocking everyone while addressing a rally in Madhya Pradesh, Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh made a sexist comment against Mandsaur MP Meenakshi Natarajan calling her a ‘Sau Taka Tunch Maal' (100 pc pure). But he defended it saying it
For then NCW chairperson Mamta Sharma, being sexy is cool. She at a seminar once said, "Don't be offended if someone says 'sexy', rather take it positively."
When there was a hue and cry, he apologised: "I regret any hurt caused as the same was inadvertent and unintended. I reiterate my deep sense of regard and respect for women and commitment to gender issues."
A CBI director is the top cop who is expected to ensure safety of country's women. But in a most unexpected remark, CBI director Ranjit Sinha drew an analogy of rape to betting. While demanding that law should be enforced to make betting official,
Sexist and senseless: Remarks by Modi, Ranjit Sinha, Botsa