Dear Chinnaiyan Lakshmanan, I request you to kindly share your reflects on this issues. I remember you countered a Shudra women scholar who accused Dalit masculinity a few years ago in the EPW.
Ref.:  Dalit Masculinities in Social Science Research: Revisiting a Tamil Village. Author(s): C.   Lakshmanan Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 39, No. 10 (Mar. 6, 2004), pp. 1088-1092
This time the issue against Dalit masculinity is raised by a Dalit women.
////Anu Ramdas Ramadas dear dalit men, i mean guys who are passionate about dalit politics, dalit consciousness etc etc, your footprints on female fber's profile pictures, status updates are quite revealing. boy, do you'll like light skin!! (more white=more political sense also, it seems!). you are all into stuff like dalit consciousnesses includes rejecting manufactured stereotypes of all genders etc, here i am not commenting on personal aesthetics but on trends. i am also saying, don't expect dalit women to treat you as equal participants in areas of dalit activism that takes on caste-gender-skin color discrimination. truly sorry about this discrimination :) ////
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