Sometime back, a few critical voices in journalism, particularly women, were abused as ‘presstitutes’, a disingenuous way to shame and slander them. The women activists, journalists, students, lawyers, who debate power and register truth to power, seldom acquiesce to the patriarchal social norms, rather they question and challenge it. The strong women leaders, protesting against rape or domestic violence, demanding gender-justice, become eyesore for those who do not want any disruption in the social order. Working women are seen as threats to the patriarchal social set-up and, therefore, are hated by those men who see their power and privileges, as essentially masculine commodities, being eroded, and by those women who are imbued with their own lack and inferiority. With largescale trolling, harassing and shaming of working women through memes, jokes and stereotyping on social media, can we infer that gains in women’s status vis-à-vis men may indeed provoke a backlash? Is it the ‘economic emasculation’ of men that renders ‘bodily emasculation’ of women and thereby violence on them? Auctioning of women’s bodies renders women as products, and the auctioneers understand women only as a sexed-up body with less or perhaps no brains. The auctioneers, and their surrogates, derive some sort of sadomasochistic pleasure and are the real harbingers of hate.