Lemon Tree Hotel’s Rape ‘Joke’: Inexcusable ‘Casual’ Sexism

Time to womansplain: women are not mens’ playthings or properties.

No matter how far women and the movement for equality comes, society will find a way to keep constructing new walls that remind them they are only good for “puckering their lips and wiggling their bottoms”.

A Lemon Tree Hotel branch in Bengaluru did exactly that when they put up a “joke” about a man using his wife to excite a gorilla and then throwing her in its cage. They were clearly chuffed with their modern-day spin on King Kong.

They must also have felt very smug with their ‘clever’ spin on the I-have-a-headache-I --don’t-want-to-have-sex excuse women supposedly use to ‘get out’ of having sex with their partners.