Sexist, Bigotry tweets by Celebrities garner media attention during Rio Olympics 2016

• Compilation of sexist, bigotry tweets by people of significance garners media attention during the summer Olympics
• Shobhaa De remarks on athletes taking selfies while Sanal, while an independent director eats his own words on PV Sindhu's celebration back home
• Many awkward comments were made by announcers during the game which shows feminism has a long way to go

August 25, 2016: If sexism thrown in subtly by the NBC broadcaster's on the U S women's gymnastics team didn't do the trick for your scandalmonger mind or if the Chicago Tribune's headline "Wife of a Bears lineman wins Bronze" didn't add the 'desi' (Indian) male chauvinism tadka then fret not, we have a compilation of all Indian celebs who got trolled hard on twitter for their nightmarish tweets on female Olympians and remained the click bait's favorite for the longest time!

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• Shobhaa De

When a well-known columnist for Mumbai Mirror, veteran novelist and philanthropist, types in words like "Goal of Team India at the Olympics: Rio jao. Selfies lo. Khaali haat wapas aao. What a waste of money and opportunity," expect all hell to break loose. Many people were lashing out at her with nothing but blood on their mind. After all, no bad deed goes unpunished in the world of netizens.

After a series of beautifully worded quips thrown at her, she finally broke her silence and during a discussion with a leading news portal said, "There was absolutely no malice intended. It was said out of a sense of panic. At that point it really did look like we were going to come back khaali haath… When I tweet, I don't calculate…Sometimes I get it right, sometimes I don't. This time obviously it backfired." De certainly doesn't believe in an unadulterated wholesome public apology to the well-deserved Olympians.

• Omar R. Quarashi

If there was anyone who could beat the infamous Shobhaa De tweet, it had to be a Pakistani Journalist. Unlike the above socialite, he didn't stop at one tweet but went with the number 4 when it came to spitting venom about Rio Olympians. The notorious tweets came in when India was celebrating Dipa Karmakar's excellent performance and Sakshi Malik's bronze.

Needless to say, shots were fired. Not only by the regular twitterati's but also by the Big B himself

• Sanal Kumar Sasisharan

Why should Dipa and Sakshi have all the fun? Sadly, PV Sindhu, first Indian women to win a silver at Olympics wasn't left alone. An independent filmmaker from the south who was awarded the Best Director trophy by the Kerala State Film Awards recently mocked Sindhu by posting this comment on Facebook "Everybody is celebrating Sindhu. Makes me want to spit(throw up). What is there to celebrate so much?"

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However, there was damage control, the director immediately clarified that he didn't intend to defame her and he's a women supporter

• Ram Gopal Verma

These tweets by RGV make us wonder if twitter should start suspending celeb accounts while they clean up terrorist profiles from their networking site.

Looks like RGV stands unimpressed with the nation's victory.

• Piers Morgan

Last but definitely not the least, Mr. Piers Morgan everyone.

If you assumed that only Pakistan or Indian nationals could belittle Indian Olympians, you stand corrected my friend. Here we have, Piers Stefan Pughe-Morgan, a British journalist and television personality, who as I type this is being mercilessly trolled by everyone, literally.

– by Karishma Vanjani of NewsGram. Twitter: @BladesnBoots

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