{"id":5555,"date":"2017-09-12T14:55:06","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T09:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=5555"},"modified":"2018-05-25T16:35:59","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T11:05:59","slug":"heres-gauri-lankeshs-facebook-post-free-sex-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/heres-gauri-lankeshs-facebook-post-free-sex-viral\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s why Gauri Lankesh&#8217;s Facebook post about &#8216;free sex&#8217; is viral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All hands on deck to malign and mock the Gauri Lankesh. \u201c<em>Wah Wah read and share<\/em>\u201d tweeted BJP MP Paresh Rawal about a Facebook post of Gauri Lankesh. \u201c<em>She called our mother a sex slave<\/em>\u201d claimed the <a href=\"http:\/\/postcard.news\/she-called-our-pm-a-gay-and-our-mother-a-sex-slave-yet-we-should-condole-her-death-incredible\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Postcard News<\/em> article<\/a> about the same post that has been shared more than 60,000 times. Along with online celebrations of her murder, came these veiled social media attacks on Lankesh. \u201c<em>Yet we should condole her death?<\/em>\u201d asked <em>Postcard News<\/em> in an attempt to justify the celebratory posts. Others like Paresh Rawal may not have asked the question directly but circulated her old posts that they found objectionable. What is this post on \u201c<em>free sex<\/em>\u201d that has offended the so-called nationalists? Let us take a look at what Gauri Lankesh had said, its context and how it is being interpreted in a twisted manner after her death.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet tw-align-center\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wah wah ! Read n spread ! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7pJpnUBBZe\">https:\/\/t.co\/7pJpnUBBZe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Paresh Rawal (@SirPareshRawal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SirPareshRawal\/status\/906455200893939715\">September 9, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/09\/Selection_12_09_2017_001-1024x818.jpg\" alt=\"gauri lankesh sanghis if your mother did not have free sex meaning sex out of free choice then it means one of two things you are a product of rape you are a the product of a sex worker who did not perform sex for free but for a fee. sanghis, the choice is yours, you can either say your mother was involved in &#039;free sex&#039; or accept that you are a result of either one of the two options that I ahve given above. I stand by kavitha kirshnan and her brave mother. incidentally, my mother had consensual and hence free sex with my father, and i am proud to be their daughter.\" width=\"640\" height=\"511\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/09\/Selection_12_09_2017_001-1024x818.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/09\/Selection_12_09_2017_001-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/09\/Selection_12_09_2017_001-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/09\/Selection_12_09_2017_001-696x556.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/09\/Selection_12_09_2017_001-526x420.jpg 526w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/09\/Selection_12_09_2017_001.jpg 1026w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>The Context: Never unfree, never forced<\/h3>\n<p>To understand the context of the \u201c<em>free-sex<\/em>\u201d post of Gauri Lankesh, one has to go back a long time.<\/p>\n<p>The term \u201cfree sex\u201d was used as a slur by BJP MP Subramanian Swamy against Kavita Krishnan of CPI(ML) on national television way back in 2013.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet tw-align-center\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/annavetticad\">@annavetticad<\/a> Sexist hate-speech started on TV itself by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Swamy39\">@Swamy39<\/a> who attacked me as a woman, Leftist who has &#39;free sex&#39;. Trolls echoed it.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kavita Krishnan (@kavita_krishnan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kavita_krishnan\/status\/409067665274048512\">December 6, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Since then, Swamy has used it several times and each time it has proven to be a cue for the online troll army to attack Krishnan. In 2016, reacting to a news item about barring a woman in a short dress from an Indigo flight, Kavita Krishnan had tweeted, \u201c<em>Stop this kind of sexist idiocy @IndiGo6E Length of our skirts none of your business<\/em>!\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet tw-align-center\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Stop this kind of sexist idiocy <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IndiGo6E\">@IndiGo6E<\/a> Length of our skirts none of your business! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DressCodes?src=hash\">#DressCodes<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/moralpolicing?src=hash\">#moralpolicing<\/a>  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0qQLZxlTXJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/0qQLZxlTXJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kavita Krishnan (@kavita_krishnan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kavita_krishnan\/status\/659589370668691456\">October 29, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This was a time that several voices were being raised about moral policing and misogynistic comments by fringe elements associated with the right-wing. There was nothing unusual about Krishnan\u2019s post but it elicited an unusual unprovoked reaction from Swamy. For him it was an attack on middle class values and he referred to Krishnan as a \u201c<em>free sex Naxalite<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet tw-align-center\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RuthlessDimple\">@RuthlessDimple<\/a> : These free sex Naxalites will defend passengers on flight wearing bikinis to rubbish &quot;middle class&quot; values.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Subramanian Swamy (@Swamy39) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Swamy39\/status\/659594982961999872\">October 29, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The label \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/spoiltmodernwoman\/photos\/a.380903738768293.1073741828.380483035477030\/474104046114928\/?type=3&amp;comment_id=480084098850256&amp;ref=notif&amp;notif_t=mentions_comment&amp;notif_id=1463300751876626\" target=\"_blank\"><em>free sex<\/em><\/a>\u201d led to a lot of debate about what is free and what is un-free i.e. paid or forced. In response, Kavita Krishnan had maintained, \u201c<em>One can only pity\u2026. who fear \u2018free sex\u2019 \u2013 un-free sex is after all nothing but rape<\/em>\u201d and was extensively trolled for saying so.<\/p>\n<p>It was Kavita Krishnan\u2019s mother who silenced the trolls with her gutsy reply. It was about consent. It was about free choice. \u201c<em>Never un-free never forced\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/09\/kavita-mother-response.jpeg\" alt=\"Hey GM Das! I am Kavita&#039;s mother. Of course I had free sex. I should jolly well hope so. As and when I wanted, with the person I wanted. And I fight for every woman and man to have sex according to their consent. Never unfree. Never forced.\" width=\"600\" height=\"359\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/09\/kavita-mother-response.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/09\/kavita-mother-response-300x180.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gauri Lankesh\u2019s Facebook post was in support of Kavita Krishnan and her mother. At no point has she called anyone\u2019s mother a \u201csex slave\u201d as claimed by <em>Postcard News<\/em>. This brings us to the question, what is the outrage about? What did BJP MP Paresh Rawal find so objectionable? Is it because a woman spoke about the right of every woman to consent and free choice? If free sex is consensual sex, what is the opposite of free sex? Maybe those maligning Gauri Lankesh can explain it better to us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All hands on deck to malign and mock the Gauri Lankesh. \u201cWah Wah read and share\u201d tweeted BJP MP Paresh Rawal about a Facebook post of Gauri Lankesh. \u201cShe called our mother a sex slave\u201d claimed the Postcard News article about the same post that has been shared more than 60,000 times. 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