S.Ve.Shekhar apologies for Facebook forward
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Chennai: Under all-round attack, actor-turned-politician S.Ve.Shekhar on Friday apologised for forwarding a message that was defamatory of women journalists on his Facebook page.
In a statement issued here, the noted comedian and a former legislator, who is now with the BJP, said he had forwarded a message on his Facebook page without reading it.
He said when a friend pointed out the content of the post to be abusive, the post was removed.
"I do not endorse the views expressed in it. I come from a family that respects women and the women journalist," he said.
However, he said he was surprised at how people are spreading the screenshot of the deleted message without finding that offensive.
It was a day after Tamil Nadu Governor Banwarilal Purohit apologised to a woman journalist for patting her cheek during a press conference in Chennai, S Ve Shekher on Thursday courted controversy by sharing a Facebook post that made derogatory remarks about women journalists.
The Facebook post shared by Shekher was titled “Madurai University, Governor and the Virgin Cheeks of a Girl”. It claimed that more sexual abuses happen in media houses than in universities. It also claimed that a woman cannot become a reporter or news reader without sleeping with bigwigs.
“This ugly truth has come out through the complaints raised recently. These are the (using a derogatory word) women who have come out to question the Governor. Media people are the cheap, lowly, ugly, vulgar beings of Tamil Nadu. There are only few exceptions. I respect only them. Otherwise, the whole of TN media is in a regressive path caught in the hands of criminals, rascals, blackmailers,” read the post.