Recently, actor Janhvi Kapoor moved to the Delhi High Court with 4000 web links and an appeal—to protect her personality rights against online criticism, unauthorised advertisement, and pornographic content using AI and deepfakes. While the Delhi High Court has ordered the removal of obscene content, fake accounts, & commercially exploitative platforms, it has refused to impose a blanket ban on her fan clubs, observing that fan communities, criticism, & satire are inevitable

This essay examines the rooted misogyny of left ideologies and the assumption that the left is progressive on gender. Although Marx and Engels only prioritised class as the source of social inequality, gender-based oppression existed before class and has not been satisfactorily tackled by most leftist movements. The essay compares early leftists' misogynistic arguments, like Proudhon, with feminist critique by intellectuals like Emma Goldman and Anuradha Gandhy.