In an encouraging move, Pune’s Fergusson college has included ‘transgender’ as a gender option on its application forms for this year. In 2012, IGNOU claimed to be the first Indian university to do so.
A 17-year-old was drugged and molested by a man in a Delhi pub, and then gang-raped by a group of men who pretended to rescue her.
Doctor Harsh Vardhan, Minister of Health, thinks “so-called sex education” in schools should be done away with. In its place, he’d like to see value education. And yoga. He’s tried to explain this one away, like his comment on the use of condoms, but we’re really not buying it.
A Bangalore school principal gives ‘pillow talk’ a whole new meaning. #vaanthi
In a tragic case, a 17-year-old Dalit girl was raped and murdered in Pichampatty village near Karur in central Tamil Nadu.
A reminder of the cases in Chattisgarh where security forces have been involved in rape and murder, but have managed to get away lightly so far.
Here’s why you need to give Tanu Sharma’s case the attention it deserves.
A peek at the misogyny of Jeyamohan and his fellow Tamil writers. A peek because (caution) longer exposure may be hazardous to mental health.
The vagina dentata stories don’t get better than this: a student was trapped in a giant 32-ton sculpture of a vagina in south Germany. It took 22 firemen to get him out.
Helena Costa, the first female coach of a men’s football team in France, quit on her first day for “purely personal” reasons amidst several misogynistic jibes. When asked about it, the club’s president claimed she had “no rational explanation” for it. “She’s a woman… They are capable of leading us to believe in certain things and then…She simply said ‘I’m going.’” Much like every 16-year-old boy who gets dumped by a girl for being a douche.
A woman had her face photoshopped in 25 countries to compare beauty standards. In this competition, everyone’s a loser.