What Twitter Gynaec doesn’t understand

This week a gynaecologist took to Twitter to announce her annoyance with patients complaining about being asked whether they are married. Several doctors and other gleeful participants in the Twitter thread were fixated on the idea that “woke women were offended” by the question of whether they were married or not. Gonsalves’ story resonated so much that within days a small group of young people had seeded a marvellous crowd-sourced list of “non-judgemental gynaecologists” across dozens of Indian cities and towns. The bloodlust on that Twitter thread was indicative of how quickly “keeping it real” goes to “let’s give these women a good slap or two”. I bet you didn’t cry like this when you were spreading your legs,” in four languages, having heard reports of maternity ward violence at every “water-cooler” conversation among women activists.