The internet and social media aren’t always safe for women, be it unwanted messages, unsolicited pictures or outright harassment. This latest incident is just one event of many and was first called out by a Twitter user who goes by ‘K’ to protect her identity. What happened: A video titled, ‘Pakistani Girls Review’ was live-streamed by the Youtube channel ‘Liberal Doge‘ that has more than 80K followers in which they shared pictures of Pakistani women on Eid, without their consent, passing lewd comments and sexualising them. The description of the video in Hindi read, “Today, we will stalk women with our eyes filled with lust.” The video has since then been made private, but the channel is still up and running on Youtube. Twitter reactions: The video was first called out by a Twitter user, ‘K’ who tweeted:
RW men are streaming live YouTube sexualizing Eid pictures of Paki women.
They are abusing, saying vile things.
Please go report. This is literally disgusting. Not even girls of neighbouring country are safe because of these people.https://t.co/QkQqTAxvSR— K (@madeforbrettLEE) May 13, 2021
While speaking to a news agency, ‘K’ said, “Their stream was specifically for abusing and sexualising Pakistani women but after seeing my tweet against it, they discussed it on their livestream too and abused me. The comments section of the stream soon turned vile with disgusting things like men sexualising women even more, and making fun of me. But the men hosting the stream continued to laugh about it all.”
This is just a small clip from this entire live stream. The comments were even more disgusting. This bastard and @Keshu__10 should be booked for using pictures of underaged Pakistani girls and sexualising them live. https://t.co/GiwNWuzDin pic.twitter.com/bcf63TT7Vn
— S (@SupariMan_) May 13, 2021
What’s next: The YouTuber’s account was traced by a few Twitter users to the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand. Hemant Soren, the chief minister of Jharkhand, has publicly asked the police to investigate the matter.
Dear @HemantSorenJMM . The most disgusting harassment of women happened on Twitter last night. The main culprits seem to be from Jharkhand. Kindly make an example of them so that public spaces become safer for women. Thanks https://t.co/iB9AEqQYvP
— Rohini Singh (@rohini_sgh) May 14, 2021
Indian activist Saket Gokhale said she had identified another man in the video, asking police in the state of Bihar to take action.
Last night, there was a horrible targeting of Indian & Pakistani Muslim women by Sanghi IT cell.
One of the perps is @mba_bureaucrat. This person is P Mahto not Mehta. Son of Ramchandra Mahto – head of Munger Lawyer’s Assn, Bihar.
For your urgent action @bihar_police. pic.twitter.com/HuwTwrSSg1
— Saket Gokhale (@SaketGokhale) May 14, 2021
In return, Gokhale was threatened in a YouTube community post by the account owner that he will “tear him [Gokhale] apart” if any action is taken against him.