The women put on sale on Clubhouse for their views – BBC News

By Karishma PatelBBC NewsImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Women are subject to massive online abuse in IndiaIn November Bhavini received screen recordings from her friends in a Clubhouse room with a title that mentioned her underwear.The live-audio app allows users to start a virtual room or join one in which other people are speaking. In these recordings, men were auctioning off parts of women’s bodies, including hers.But Bhavini, who lives in India and whose name has been changed to protect her identity, was not surprised. “Men have been harassing me on the app for months, making rooms using my name at least once a week and calling me worse things. This is the price you pay for being a vocal woman,” the 33-year-old policy researcher said. She is one of at least four women from India’s Hindu majority who were offered in a mock auction on Clubhouse that day for around two hours, with over 200 users watching at one point, according to witnesses.Clubhouse told the BBC that later that day, it suspended the accounts of those who made the room and warned, suspended or permanently removed other connected accounts.The women say that Hindu nationalist trolls on the app have…
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