Indian men decided to unite together on Twitter, and trended hashtag #MensLivesMatter on Friday 20th August, around 9 PM IST. This trend was to signify that men’s life matter too, and was in support of a recent Petition filed by two law students in Supreme Court of India. The petition filed by Anam Kamil and Shrikant Prasad, seeks Supreme Court’s directions to Indian Government to make the plethora of Indian laws Gender Neutral. They have argued that the laws were made over 150 years ago, and their misuse has reached unprecedented levels, and men need protection too. Recent violent incidents against men also got good media coverage and social media support, even though the perpetrators were left unpunished. Some top tweets in #MensLivesMatter trend below:
This trend lasted for over 12 hours at number 3 position, and kept trending for whole day of 22nd August. This riled up the Indian feminists, who couldn’t digest the fact that men are tweeting for themselves, instead of simping for them and falling for their “women are always oppressed” narrative.
Some screenshots/Tweets of Indian Feminists and SIMPs:
Obviously, Men’s Rights Activists were quick to respond with facts and examples of historical misandry, for which feminists didn’t have any answer:
The fact that this trend had over 50k tweets showed that at least some Indian men have woken up and are uniting against systemic exploitation of men in India, and there is not much the Feminists and SIMPS can do about it.