Introduction In the last decade or two, India has become more progressive in accepting women into various empirically male-dominated careers such as journalism. Unfortunately, India's oppressive society has found a way to try and give women reasons to avoid pursuing this job: rape threats and slut-shaming. The cases involve a female journalist exposing corrupt practices of politicians through factually-based research and then facing rape threats or being slut-shamed endlessly. The issue is that the followers lack the proper refutations for arguments made against their beloved politicians, so they find no other option than resorting to oppressive and demeaning approaches that target the journalists themselves. Their flawed ideology is contingent on the notion that a woman wearing a low-cut shirt and short shorts can't possibly be a credible source for information (a widely popular belief in Indian society). When they fail to successfully stop the release of articles through this method,