Misogyny at peak after Mirabai Chanu's Olympic win

Ground Report | New Delhi: Misogyny at peak after Mirabai Chanu's; The 26-year-old Mirabai Chanu won a silver medal for the country on Saturday by lifting 202kg (87kg + 115kg) in the 49kg category to better Karnam Malleswari's bronze at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. The medal comes as a major achievement for Mirabai, who failed to enter a single valid lift at the Rio 2016 Olympics.

The news has since gone 'viral' on social media platforms, with thousands of congratulatory messages pouring in. Her name as well as "Congratulations India" have now become top trends on Twitter, as happy netizens wish Chanu. But at the same time, few posts are disturbing and misogynistic.

One of the Twitter user wrote, "there are girls who making reels, showing navel to strangers, posting thirst trap pictures and there are girls who representing the country, winning and making the whole country proud."

https://twitter.com/iamFirki/status/1419207176120274944?s=20

At the same time, another user wrote: "Real feminism" is when women do something that is highly male-dominated like sports, armed forces because of course femininity is weak and masculinity is the bar of good things. I'm very intelligent."

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Another Twitter user Risha wrote "Waiting for an Indian man to win Olympics medal so that I can tell all men what an ideal man looks like".

Waiting for an Indian man to win Olympics medal so that I can tell all men what an ideal man looks like.

— Effacing_one (@Effacing_Richa) July 25, 2021

If she can do both, she isn't likely to marry you. pic.twitter.com/7SpI7QDAqD

— Shuchi Singh (Modi Ka Parivar) (@theshuchisingh) July 25, 2021

When a man gets success, surely he will marry his love no matter what her status is?
But when a woman gets success, she will marry more successful ( rich ) person than her....
More power to you girls...🙏🙏

— dark fellow//n⁹ (@narfault) July 26, 2021

Could refer to girlfriend or even a girl someone is meeting through an arranged marriage set-up. Essentially what the post intends is to say that if a girl can live in the present and stay grounded to her roots, she's a keeper.

— K@u$h@! (@A_Saffronista) July 26, 2021

I think the original intent of the meme is lost on feminists and those quick to class men in India as patriarchal. People need to take the meme at face value and just appreciate the sentiment and not dig so deep to get offended

— P N K (@pnkAllways) July 26, 2021

Men want women who can do both while they are greasy, moisturised, can’t tell the difference between different shades of colour, still go to their mothers to find the other pair of their sock 🙄

— Dr Sumaiya Shaikh 🇸🇪🇦🇺 (@Neurophysik) July 26, 2021

Wait a minute.
Is this the new way of saying that 'Ji Ye ghar ke saare kaam kar leti hai. Padhi likhi bhi hai, to Mister poora dhyaan apne kaam par laga sakte, ye sambhal legi bachchon ko."?
She can do anything, everything, less or more, and still be more than marriage material

— Besharam (@IMbesharam) July 26, 2021

I can't find a single word wrong in his tweet. I don't know why the hell these "so called millennials" are hell bent on degrading the concept of marriage.

And just so u know, his meaning is any man who gets to marry such a powerful, independent &fierce women is lucky.

Cheers!!

— Harry singh (@wandererbuddy) July 26, 2021

Overall, this is India's second weightlifting medal at the Olympics after Karnam Malleswari, who won a bronze medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. With this Mirabai has become the 17th individual Olympic medalist overall from India (from 1900 to 2021).

Incredibly, Mirabai failed to register a single clean lift in the clean and jerk at the 2016 Rio Olympics. The way he has made a comeback is absolutely incredible. Thanks to Mirabai's talent, India has opened its medal account in the Tokyo Games. (Misogyny at peak after Mirabai Chanu's)

Chanu had ended India's 21-year wait for a weightlifting medal at the Olympics. He lifted a total of 202 kg (87 kg + 115 kg) to better Karnam Malleswari's bronze medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. With this, she banished the ghosts of the 2016 Games where she failed to log a single valid lift.

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China's Hou Zhihui lifted 210 kg (94 kg + 116 kg), while Indonesia's Aisha Windi Kentika took the bronze with an effort of 194 kg (84 kg + 110 kg).

Seeing her weakness in the marquee event, Chanu attempted 84kg in her first attempt of the snatch. Manipuri took his time and played the barbell cleanly. She lifted 87kg in her next attempt and increased the weight to 89kg, a kilogram more than her personal best of 88kg at the National Championships last year. However, she was unable to better her personal best and settled for 87kg behind only leader Zhihui in the snatch event, who set a new Olympic record with an effort of 94kg.

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