Ranveer's nude photos case: Exposing double-standards and out of proportion reaction

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A little ago, Ranveer Singh had shared nude pics on his Instagram, which very soon created a stir on social media.

People on social media had 2 polar views- while some supported him, some went out of proportion to even file a case for this. We do not know whether Ranveer posted the nude pics to attract controversy or not, someone who is already a meme material for his unconventional clothing.

Keeping the intention of creating controversy or not, this has surfaced already existing double standards when it comes to gender. Though he received support by people, which I didn't really bothered about, it exposes the hypocrisy when a girl or a woman posts half-nude or "too revealing" photos.

When a women posts photos or is physically at a place like beach, in bikini or similar clothing, she is subjected to slut-shaming comments, creepy/judgemental looks, unasked advices to get changed into "more appropriate" clothing, to even the extent of rape and death threats to her and her family. When her clothes are perceived as "too revealing" by public, she is subjected to hate and all of the above I have said, which in most cases, males do not have to (they can even roam shirtless in many settings). 

Many might say, women post half nude photos on Instagram and songs, revealing parts of breasts. Agreed, but breasts' primary function is to breastfeed. It got hypersexualized with time. Also the female nipple in censored, both on social media platforms/YouTube/songs and real life, unlike male nipple (every male was once a female, till 6th week of conception, hence the presence of nipple even in cisgender males) which is accepted. What I feel is- if one is censored, another must be too or if one is accepted, another should also be accepted.

Sometimes, even the social media platforms like Instagram deletes the post or account of girls sharing photos in bikinis and of genuine and credible sex educators rather than of online abusers, which is very unfortunate.

Yes, I didn't much liked seeing the nude pics either, which I had to come across ofcourse through memes and criticism posts against him, but I just chose to ignore. What I think is, a FIR was really unnecessary. It will only waste time of police and other officials or systems involved into the FIR, lost time which they could have got to focus on genuine cases. They could have ignored, posted constructive criticism comment but lodging an FIR was really not necessary. As we live in a time of Netflix (warning already given) and other OTT (not naming them as I'm not interested in getting into court case hassle, but some are into soft porn) where nudity is getting a little normalised with time and the definition of obscenity is not as same as it used to be earlier.

To end this, all I have to say is we need to get rid of gender double-standards and not get offended on smallest of things (getting very common now btw).