MUMBAI: Swara Bhasker said that even though she gets comments that are akin to cyber sexual harassment, she refuses to let ot affect her. During a recent Twitter Spaces chat, the actress opened up about how trolls link her posts to her masturbation scene in Veere Di Wedding.
She took to Instagram to share an excerpt from her Twitter Spaces conversation. “Social media is a [virtual] public space like roads & restaurants are, but the public decency and basic social etiquette maintained offline are absent online. I can’t even post a photo of a flower without people linking it to masturbation or referencing ‘ungli’ (finger) after Veere Di Wedding came out.”
“It’s ugly and amounts to cyber sexual harassment but I feel very strongly about not succumbing to online bullying or limiting my presence online because of it. We cannot cede the virtual public space to hate, bigotry and bullying,” she added. She captioned her post, “Speak your truth. Stand your ground.”
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Earlier this year, as Veere Di Wedding completed three years of its release, she claimed that her masturbation scene in the film provided trolls with employment. “3 YEARS (June 01) to the birth of an obsession - my nafrati chintus obsession with my fingers! Happy 3rd to the film that gave rise to an economy: the two rupees per tweet employment guarantee scheme that it seems I launched for my trolls #veerediwedding #sakshislays,” she wrote.
Credits: Hindustan Times
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