It’s 2016, after all, and even idiots know not to invoke “rape” in vain. In the last four years, words like “Nirbhaya” and “Uber” and “Stanford” have been claimed by incidents that’ve changed us all.

In 2016, it takes a staggering lack of respect for women to have dismissed that global din, and to still be the kind of person who thinks the biggest problem with an insensitive rape comment is that it may end up in print. In other words: create a PR problem.

And it’s not like his violent attitude toward women is brand new information. Remember when Aishwarya Rai Bachchan’s parents reportedly lodged a complaint against him because he was mistreating their daughter?

Before you comment that that was a decade and a half ago and that he does charity work now and, really, he’s a good, good man, consider this: apparently, he still hasn’t understood the extraordinarily basic concept that violence against women is, y’know, not chill.

When you defend Salman Khan, you’re defending a man who seems almost completely incapable of repentance, intelligent introspection, or personal growth.



And if you believe Khan's displayed misogyny has no real consequences, consider how his fans talk to and about women on Twitter. (You'll probably get a good glimpse just by going through my mentions once they've found this article.)



