The point everyone seems to be missing from the ‘Locker-room’ revelations

Call out the crime, not the ‘criminal’, and how we shouldn’t be committing a wrong in revealing another.

This troubling aspect had come to my mind in little time after going through the screenshots that were posted on what seemed to be the entire sea of social media. But I realized that the story was also initiating some much-needed discussions on misogyny, toxic locker-room talk, normalization of sexual misconduct in public spaces and so much more — so I reserved this point for some other day.
[For the uninitiated, here’s a news article describing the incident/revelation that took place on May 4th, 2020: https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/bois-locker-room-scandal-fir-against-south-delhi-teens-for-obscene-instagram-chatter-6393840/]

However, with the recent suicide of a boy who was ‘called out’ by one of his female friends over allegations of sexual misconduct (and who, apparently, later went one to say that suicide was entirely the boy’s fault since he couldn’t handle the pressure) — I felt a trigger to write this out in quick time.

File photo of the deceased

Here’s his sister’s message over what had transpired: https://www.instagram.com/p/B_2S6vwFbyr/