Often we come across several portals splashing the headline “Befitting Reply By XYZ” to “trolls”. Often these XYZ are none other than those who are more in news with social media publicity, rather than the real work for which Twitter has probably verified their handles! And PR Portals generally label non-verified twitter handles – who may be genuinely posing the right questions and also getting larger support Vs XYZ – as “Trolls”.
Yesterday once again, a number of portals promptly published articles with some eyeball grabbing headlines. Some of them read as follows:
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Sona Mohapatra Asked If Her Tweets Were A #MeToo Campaign Against Utsav Chakraborty Or Personal Experience; Singer Calls Bull****
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Angry Sona Mohapatra replies trollers ‘Keep your rubbish with you’
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Sona Mohapatra asked if her tweet against Utsav Chakraborty was part of MeToo campaign or an opinion, see her reply
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Sona Mohapatra Gives Befitting Reply To Tweet On Comedian Utsav Chakraborty
Well, you would have realised that the discussion is about some tweet to which Sona Mohapatra would have replied to. For the ones, who still question “Who is Sona Mohapatra whose befitting replies keep getting published by a popular news app on our mobiles”….Her twitter bio reads as “Free, Sapiosexual, Politically incorrect & proud Alpha-female | Lal Pari Mastani | Concert”.
Yesterday’s articles were about Mohapatra’s reply when Men’s Day Out posed a question to her whether she “personally” knew Comedian Utsav Chakraborty, who she had named and shamed during 2018 #MeToo.
A Quick Question @sonamohapatra
Did you know @Wootsaw personally? Were your ‘campaigns’ against him a matter of ‘knowledge and personal experience’?#MenToo #MeToo #MeTooIndia https://t.co/fySjpwKess pic.twitter.com/5HwznX2R8W
— Men’s Day Out (@MensDayOutIndia) December 15, 2020
A quick rap on the knuckles to you Mr Anon handle. Yes I have seen screenshots of the messages & pics Mr Utsav used to share with women & also writing a tweet with an opinion isn’t running a campaign. Keep your bullshit in your corner. Your muted henceforth on my timeline. https://t.co/ETx9rQzbz0
— Sona Mohapatra (@sonamohapatra) December 15, 2020
Click Here to read detailed updated story on Chakraborty which Mohapatra failed to clarify.
What Is The Definition Of Befitting Replies?
Now, here are some hard facts. Twitter handle of Sona Mohapatra has 161.5k followers (as on Dec 17, 2020) and her tweet dated Dec 15 got 6 RTs, 14 Likes and 14 replies. MDO had a glance over the 14 replies and to our shock, every single reply questioned her instead of supporting her ‘befitting response’ to MDO.
Sona also kept retweeting her own tweets to garner more traction in her support from her lakhs of followers.
When you keep retweeting your own tweets and label others as trolls pic.twitter.com/TAQNrB1VUr
— Men’s Day Out (@MensDayOutIndia) December 16, 2020
But naturally, none of the portals who published her “Befitting Reply” cared to check on the same. Infact, one portal named Spoteye even almost copy pasted…. “He (Sona) is always seen in headlines for his statements” (this now stands deleted from the article).
Thx to me & @MensDayOutIndia , @sonamohapatra paid PR team managed to get some articles published & get her in news somehow. Scripted story sent to all. But then one ended up writing “he is always seen in healdlines for his statements”
Paid Headlines can do this 😛😛😛 pic.twitter.com/AIzbIexYJ7
— Deepika Narayan Bhardwaj (@DeepikaBhardwaj) December 17, 2020
& Dear @MensDayOutIndia @DeepikaBhardwaj , please know that I understand that – “Not all women are angels & Not all men are thugs”. There are good & bad ppl.That the current power structure coming down from centuries is tilted & statistics clearly indicate this too is also true. https://t.co/h1QGOf9BE6
— Sona Mohapatra (@sonamohapatra) December 15, 2020
Once again with 161.5 Lakh followers the above retort by Sona got 0 RTs and merely 8 likes. All comments below this tweet were once again not by any of her followers.
Possibly annoyed with the counter questions Sona was facing, she this time chose to use the name of departed soul Nirbhaya and strike a controversy with independent journalist Deepika Bhardwaj.
Today is the 16 th of December, a day to remember for posterity when a girl was abducted, gang raped & her intestines thrown out on the roads of our capital Delhi. Ms @DeepikaBhardwaj has of course chosen to unleash her troll army of MRA’s on me to commemorate the day. #Nirbhaya https://t.co/1n6JJm5VfL
— Sona Mohapatra (@sonamohapatra) December 16, 2020
From the 6 RTs and 44 responses she got on this tweet, almost all were once again opposing her. Also, one of her own supporters wrote the below:
i used to admire you but using Nirbhaya case to score a personal point in personal argument is just pathetic.. not expected! you could have easily given statistics about women crime for such arguments instead of playing a victim card
— Ekta . (@Triishaa05) December 16, 2020
Now here’s where it all actually started…….that possibly triggered Mohapatra!
On December 10, Sona took pot shot at Music Director Vishal Dadlani for not calling out former Indian Idol colleague and #MeToo Accused Anu Malik. She quoted:
What is right is often forgotten by what is convenience.” Dadlani’s heart bleeds for Rhea Chakraborty & None of this justice bent came into play for Vishal when endless women called out his #IndianIdol colleague Anu Malik. @IndiaMeToo #WontBeForgotten #India #WillRemember
Men’s Day Out called out her selective outrage over the music director, while she had been completely mum on another alleged sexual predator Anurag Kashyap, whose next Netflix release #AKVsAKTrailer is already out. MDO questioned the #MeTooIndia crusader, if she had missed out on publicly naming Kashyap and that she must ensure he is out of work too, if she honestly stood for the rights of sexually abused women.
Hey @sonamohapatra
Have you missed #AKVsAKTrailer starring ‘alleged sexual predator’ @anuragkashyap72
If you honestly stand for rights of sexually abused women, pl ensure #AnuragKashyap who is charged with FIR is out of work as well@VishalDadlani #MeToo #MenToo #MeTooIndia
— Men’s Day Out (@MensDayOutIndia) December 11, 2020
Expectedly, Sona gave our tweet a miss on this day.
On December 14, Bhardwaj shared a tweet on Actor Vijay Raaz who has been terminated from his film over molestation charges, and questioned why Kashyap who is charged for rape had not been arrested since months.
We once again took the opportunity and cc’d Bhardwaj’s tweet to the #MeToo Crusader in case she missed our Dec 10 question.
Cc: @sonamohapatra #AKvsAK https://t.co/Ms95nOsCCa
— Men’s Day Out (@MensDayOutIndia) December 14, 2020
Once again, Sona ignored…Subsequently, when Bhardwaj’s posed the Kashyap’s question again to Mohapatra, MeToo campaigner was almost compelled to reply this time. Someone who has always asked all to #BelieveAllWomen, gave it a subjective and personal spin this time. She wrote,
I spoke about it on my @BDUTT interview when asked, also read about Ex CJI Gogoi in this regard, felt sick but haven’t become a professional ‘rabble rouser’ like you fortunately. I reserve my ‘campaigns’ for matters I know & experience personally. It’s called #MeToo not #HeToo
I spoke about it on my @BDUTT interview when asked, also read about Ex CJI Gogoi in this regard, felt sick but haven’t become a professional ‘rabble rouser’ like you fortunately. I reserve my ‘campaigns’ for matters I know & experience personally. It’s called #MeToo not #HeToo 🤟🏾 https://t.co/rsfTS7I26O
— Sona Mohapatra (@sonamohapatra) December 15, 2020
And then this is how Men’s Rights Activists have responded to Sona’s selective outrage giving a clean chit to Kashyap.
I am not a professional “rabble rouser”
I am a professional #HeToo campaigner because it’s as real as #MeToo
Stick it in your face!!!!! https://t.co/ARZFVFbdkv
— Deepika Narayan Bhardwaj (@DeepikaBhardwaj) December 15, 2020
First. It’s a handle run by a female entrepreneur @sonamohapatra Not all women hate men like u, u know
Second – sharing pics when 2 adults mutually sext ain’t any offense or qualifies to be #MeToo pretty much clarified by @Wootsaw in expose he did
Third it’s You’re NOT Your https://t.co/PXcGizf5wM
— Deepika Narayan Bhardwaj (@DeepikaBhardwaj) December 15, 2020
#BelieveAllWomen — but but but there is some special treatment when it comes to Alleged Sexual Predator #AnuragKashyap#MeTooIndia #MeToo #MenToo @DeepikaBhardwaj @sonamohapatra https://t.co/fySjpwKess
— Men’s Day Out (@MensDayOutIndia) December 15, 2020
You may be judge and jury in your own social media world @sonamohapatra
With reference to us being ‘Mr Anon handle’, do take the effort to visit our twitter bio because we do some real work in the interest of (hu)mankind #SpeakUpMen #MenToo https://t.co/orv3FbLesn
— Men’s Day Out (@MensDayOutIndia) December 15, 2020
The tweets and responses are up for all to witness themselves and decide which verified or non verified handles were putting across their arguments genuinely and which handles was indulging in publicity exercise!
Disclaimer: The detailed article has been published by a Website Dedicated To Welfare Of Men & Their Families, Which Is Not “Mr Anon”.
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