In the 'Aryan blond blue-eyed' Barbie, the movie, women, aka Barbies, are in charge in Barbie Land while in the real world, the Kens aka men rule the real world through the patriarchy. In a scene, a comparison is made about how Barbies haven’t developed “immunity” to patriarchy like “Native Americans [...]
More than 400 people have signed a petition to get the statue removed
Keith Palmer added: “Our town is named after a saint of the Christian faith, not a so-called earth goddess. What a waste of money anyway at these times of personal financial difficulty for so many. In a way, I am glad it doesn’t [...]
A recent report on an online portal (2018) expressing concern about a sword-carrying Hanuman Jayanthi procession in Noida led to a formidable social media backlash centered around the hashtag BajrangiTwitter. At the centre of this controversy was the characterisation of a now ubiquitous image of Hanuman by the author of the report (and others before) [...]
Former screen idol turned animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot was fined 20,000 euros by a court on France’s Indian Ocean island of La Reunion over a 2019 diatribe where she described its inhabitants as “savages”. “The natives have kept their savage genes,” the animal rights campaigner wrote in an open letter attacking the islanders for [...]