A woman stands on stage under the lights, mic in hand. “What’s worse than seeing a molester approaching you?” The crowd waits. She delivers the twist — the predator takes one look at her and does a U-turn, disgusted by the snot on her face. Laughter fills the room. Shows like this charge anywhere from two to ten thousand rupees per ticket, and people are paying it without a second thought. But flip the comedian to a man telling the exact same joke, and the same audience would be calling for blood. That’s the hypocrisy staring us in the face.

This isn’t edgy comedy. It’s turning the nightmare of molestation into a punchline about a woman’s looks. Real victims don’t laugh this off. They live with the violation. Making it about “even the molester didn’t want me” isn’t dark humour — it’s a cheap, ugly shot that cheapens real trauma.
The gender double standard is impossible to miss. Men get their careers torched for rape jokes. women get standing ovations and Prime Video specials. One side gets cancelled; the other gets celebrated. That’s not equality. It’s a rigged system where the rules bend depending on who’s cracking the joke.


Worse still are the people buying tickets. When you pay thousands and laugh along, you’re not just enjoying a show. You’re funding the normalization of this garbage. You’re complicit. The same crowd that polices every other space for “problematic” content suddenly has no problem when molestation becomes material for female comics. Make that make sense.


Comedy pushing boundaries is one thing. But when those boundaries disappear only for one gender, and the audience cheers, we’re not evolving — we’re rotting from the inside. Rape jokes aren’t okay. Molestation jokes aren’t okay. They shouldn’t be okay coming from anyone. The laughter stops being funny the second we admit we’re paying to erode our own standards.
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SIBY JEYYA

17/06/2026 12:00 AM