It’s Just Performative Feminism for Male Comedians: Aditi Mittal

The stand-up comedian calls out the deeply sexist behaviour of her colleagues.

Midst allegations of sexist and bullying behaviour of High Spirits Pune owner Khodu Irani, stand-up comic Aditi Mittal has called out the deeply biased and hypocritical behaviour of her colleagues.

Aditi supported blogger Sheena Dabolkar’s allegations that Irani and his popular establishment respected neither women performers or patrons and routinely harassed them sexually. Responding to several male comics’ boycotting the hip joint after the allegations, Aditi said that the stand-up comic fraternity is deeply sexist and just pretends to be feminists on stage.

Check out her tweets here:

There are a COUPLE of places/producers that I have stopped performing at/with even if it means loss of income for me.

— Aditi (@awryaditi) October 14, 2017

That's why I think I stopped saying anything- coz my mind reasoned- what difference will it make. There will be declarations of boycott-

— Aditi (@awryaditi) October 14, 2017

I have 0 faith in comedians being the feminists they declare themselves to be. It's all performative feminism.

— Aditi (@awryaditi) October 14, 2017

Making comments on our love lives, (of course if a female comedian ever hooks up with a male comic- EVERYONE will know the next day)

— Aditi (@awryaditi) October 14, 2017

But also emails like this pic.twitter.com/KCHgWJbkQF

— Aditi (@awryaditi) October 14, 2017

For talking about feminism while the men will say the EXACT same thing and get hailed as heros? It's SO INCREDIBLY frustrating.

— Aditi (@awryaditi) October 14, 2017

(Not to mention-I could fucking get away from it for the next 6 months- EVERYTHING I did was coloured by that video)

— Aditi (@awryaditi) October 14, 2017

So plz, knock yourself out declaring to public how you're the woke-est human being on this planet. That might just be your best punchline.

— Aditi (@awryaditi) October 14, 2017

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