Please stop posting people’s private pictures publicly, even if you found them on the interwebs. ‘She had it coming’ is a vile excuse for breaching someone’s privacy, even if that someone is Maya Khan. ‘She had it coming’ is also the excuse that The Maya Jee and company use to harass women repeatedly on her show. Ideas such as these help perpetuate the ‘she asked for it’ nonsense.

Maya Khan’s actions are despicable, but an anchor isn’t the only person who decides what will be aired. We can condemn her for a) what she did; and b) for not taking a stand in front of her bosses. But under no circumstances does this justify a breach of Maya’s own privacy. Misogyny cannot be protested using more misogyny.

Also, I’m extremely amused at how almost no one’s saying things like how the director, producer, channel heads etc ‘had it coming’ too. Do they not party? Are there no pictures of them on the interwebs? They played a bigger part in this than Maya Khan did. Is condemnation reserved only for women? Or is telling a woman that she ‘had it coming’ easier than telling the same thing to a man?