{"id":1000018,"date":"2026-03-30T08:26:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T02:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1000018"},"modified":"2026-03-30T09:55:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T04:25:53","slug":"tn-women-face-misogynist-timelines-as-poll-season-triggers-online-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/30\/tn-women-face-misogynist-timelines-as-poll-season-triggers-online-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"TN women face misogynist timelines as poll season triggers online abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TIRUCHY: \u201cIt stopped being about what I said. It became about me,\u201d said a Chennai-based journalist, describing the flood of personal and gendered comments that followed a recent political post. <\/p>\n<p>As election campaigning intensifies in Tamil Nadu, women \u2013 including journalists, activists and political voices \u2013 say online abuse is not new, but becomes more intense, frequent and personal during poll season. Several women told TNIE that expressing political views often draws responses that go beyond disagreement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TIRUCHY: \u201cIt stopped being about what I said. It became about me,\u201d said a Chennai-based journalist, describing the flood of personal and gendered comments that followed a recent political post. As election campaigning intensifies in Tamil Nadu, women \u2013 including journalists, activists and political voices \u2013 say online abuse is not new, but becomes more intense, frequent and personal during poll season. Several women told TNIE that expressing political views often draws responses that go beyond disagreement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}