The female students from Kerela, a state on India’s Malabar Coast, stood up against alleged sexist comments made by a college professor, who said women’s breasts look like melons and suggested that the fair sex in the college should hide them most carefully.
India-college students have taken to the streets with slices of melon to protest against a professor who said females weren’t covered properly. He said they were leaving a part of the body exposed that attracts men. #7thcenturyissueshttps://t.co/rIZXdZNgvt
— ProActive Patriots (@ActivePatriots) 20 марта 2018 г.
The reaction was the contrary – the indignant students stripped to their waist and posed with melons for photos, which they shortly after uploaded on Facebook. Hours later, though, the campaigners woke up to find their accounts suspended and their pictures taken down.
India professor ‘melon chest’ comments spark protest
— Sec (@SecularScarlet) 22 марта 2018 г.
Once again the obsession with the sexuality of women’s bodies… says more about the man and to his detriment.
Weak minds https://t.co/YXJhnpA94q
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