Are you a feminist pisachini ruining the great Indian family with your quest for equality? Well, you’re about to get a taste of the wrath of some pandits because a Karnataka-based group is all set to do a ‘pisachinimukti puja’ to end feminism. No, this is not an episode of Black Mirror or a satirical piece. A leaflet announcing this was shared on Twitter, and can be found circulating on the WhatsApp groups and Newsletters of this organisation detailing the location and date of the event. The funniest part is that they have done this before--last year in August, to be precise!



The only thing we don’t know is how feminist one has to be to qualify as a pisachini. Will our thirst for equal rights finally destroy us? These are the things which truly concern us. Perhaps a look into the group doing this puja can explain who their feminist foes are.

What is this organisation?

Created as a reaction to the “misuse” of dowry laws for harassment, the Save Indian Family Foundation is a men’s rights group masquerading as a crusader for the Indian family. Their aim? To fight “legal terrorism” against their poor and sweet little historically-disadvantaged sex.

Common social evils and crimes like rape, dowry, and sexual harassment et cetera, are frightening possibilities women have to feel scared of everyday. For this group, though, life is about protection against being “wrongly” accused of these crimes. You know, because women really get a kick out of their false-accusation hobby.

Here are some other “issues” they tackle

Calling the #MeToo movement a “digital mob lynching tool,” this group’s website is full of news clippings defending men accused of rape and molestation. Their struggle is against false domestic violence, false rape, and false dowry cases.

Meanwhile, womankind is struggling to recover from hundreds of years of trauma due to actual domestic violence, real rape, and dowry-related deaths.

Going through the website’s list of leaflets is an amusing glance into how indignant the privileged can become when inconvenienced by the same patriarchy their sex benefits from everyday.

They have a helpline for “men in distress”

You’d think they’d do some good work for men and against toxic masculinity but, like the “I don’t see colour” racists, this group only has solutions which damn women instead of helping men. Their helpline for “men in distress” is like that.

Don’t get us wrong--anyone in distress or being harassed should have the means to seek help, so we are all for a helpline to aid men in distress. This is especially true for men who are gay, men who feel depressed and suicidal but can’t talk to anyone, and men struggling against toxic masculinity. However, given their tendency to do pujas to end feminism, you can understand why we’re a little apprehensive about the credibility of SIF’s distress helpline. Perhaps some are best left doing their pisachinimukti gigs, not expressing their opinions on feminism and women.