Anurag Kashyap's daughter Aaliyah Kashyap was slut-shamed and threatened with rape after she recently uploaded a picture of herself donning a bikini a few weeks ago. A certain section of people posted vulgar comments on her post which seems to have taken a toll on her mental health. Aaliyah has finally broken her silence on the hateful trolling she faced with a hard-hitting post on Instagram. She also posted the screenshots of the vulgar comments. Also Read - Khushi, Jhanvi and Aaliyah get their fan moment with Coldplay singer Chris Martin
"The past few weeks have been really hard on my mental health. Ever since I posted a photo of me in lingerie, I have been getting the most vile, degrading and disgusting comments. I have never felt more frightened than I have in the past few weeks to the point where I considered deleting my instagram. I have tried to ignore the harassment and shrug it off but the truth is that we need to speak about it because these kind of comments contribute to the rape culture that affects all women in india (and the rest of the world) in one way or the other," Aaliyah said in her statement. Also Read - Hot damn! Pooja Bedi's daughter Aaliyah is setting her Instagram on FIRE like nobody's watching!
She continued, "We seem to be a country that will hold candle marches for a woman after she's been sexually assaulted but won't protect a woman while she's alive. And the truth is that women in India grow up being sexualized their whole lives. I have grown up with these kinds of comments to the point where it culminated into me being sexually assaulted as a minor by a middle aged man. The double standard is that many of the people who have harassed me, along with many other woman, are hypocrites. They love to pretend that they're on a moral high ground but in reality, they are the ones promoting the rape culture that exists."
"They are the same men that are fine with following me and consuming the content I post, yet choose to harass me. If you truly disagree with what I post, then you are free to unfollow me. Nothing I do or post is an invitation for sexual assault. Nothing any woman does, ever can be. So instead of policing women how to dress or how to act, we should unteach men the predatory behaviour that has been so normalised in our society. This is my body, my life and I choose what I want to do with it," she concluded.
Earlier, Aaliyah had posted a video with her boyfriend Shane Gregoire wherein she had spoken about how she kept crying constantly after facing massive backlash for posting lingerie pictures on social media.
"People were telling me that I should be ashamed of being Indian and posting stuff like that. People were sending me rape threats, calling me a prostitute, DMing me and asking me what my ‘rate’ was, sending me death threats, s**tting on my family. That whole incident of the picture got me a lot," Aaliyah had said in the video.
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