{"id":49348,"date":"2018-10-22T01:06:04","date_gmt":"2018-10-21T19:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=49348"},"modified":"2018-10-22T01:06:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-21T19:36:04","slug":"metoo-and-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2018\/10\/22\/metoo-and-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"#MeToo and justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong>Dear Editor,<\/strong><br \/>\nThis is in response to your editorial, &#8220;Let MJ Akbar face investigation&#8221; (October 16, 2018). A narrative has been created to accuse #MeToo movement of being elitist. But such a narrative does not hold water.<br \/>\nThe movement could have been called elitist if it were a battle between elite women and poor and powerless men. On the contrary, #MeToo campaign till now has showcased a complete reverse picture. It is a battle between elite women and more powerful elite men.<br \/>\nThere is also another narrative to dismiss the movement by saying that those who have launched the movement in India are not goddesses. This is another bogus argument. Never has a single crusader of #MeToo movement claimed that she is a &#8220;Devi&#8221; and she should be worshipped as such. The demand of the #MeToo movement is simple. It wants justice for some women as they were allegedly not treated as human beings.<br \/>\n<strong>Yours,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Sujit De, <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Kolkata<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Editor, This is in response to your editorial, &#8220;Let MJ Akbar face investigation&#8221; (October 16, 2018). A narrative has been created to accuse #MeToo movement of being elitist. But such a narrative does not hold water. The movement could have been called elitist if it were a battle between elite women and poor and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-49348","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-readers-forum"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}