Actor Vijay urges fans to respect women, stop abuse on social media
A day after a journalist filed a police complaint here against four anonymous Twitter handles and others for sexual harassment, after she was trolled in social media for making an adverse comment about a Vijay-starrer movie, actor Vijay, in a statement issued on Wednesday, urged his fans to refrain from such activities and respect women.
By : migrator
Update: 2017-08-09 19:06 GMT
Chennai
“I am someone who respects women. Everybody has the right to criticize anyone’s film. It is my view that no woman should be spoken of in a demeaning way for any reason or any time.
Everyone has to praise womanhood. I request that nobody should share hurtful and wrong views about women on social media,” Vijay said. Meanwhile, DMK working president M K Stalin has posted a message on his official Facebook page condemning the alleged abuse showered on a journalist by Vijay fans for subtly criticizing one of his movies.
“Intolerance in any form, for expressing one’s views in a democratic country, is unacceptable. These acts to strangulate the freedom of expression, especially of a woman journalist in Chennai, is highly deplorable and condemnable.
Rule of law must prevail in curbing this menace,” the message posted on FB said.
The woman journalist drew the ire of Vijay fans in social media after she posted her review of a Hindi film and compared it with a Vijay-starrer movie ‘Sura’. The cybercrime wing of the city police has lodged an FIR and are investigating.
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