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| Mein Joseph’s photo with actor Nivin Pauly, taken at a college function, which had drawn silly criticism from fringe media publications |
May 26, 2016
A popular media website has withdrawn a highly offensive article after a young police officer from Kerala Merin Joseph slammed it.
Click on the article giving a list of 10 most beautiful IPS and IAS women officers, it fetches a 404 response.
One of the officers featured in the list, Merin Joseph wrote a Facebook post on Sunday harshly criticising it. She said women officers were doing a tough job in complex system, but were being reduced to their looks.
Taking on the patriarchal attitude behind the article she asked why a list of top 10 handsome male IAS and IPS officers was not there.
There is a reason Merin Joseph was quick to react; fighting sexist pigs is nothing new for her.
After she started her career in Kerala, several Facebook fan pages describing her looks surfaced. It became a standing joke among many Kerala men to post messages pleading Merin Joseph to arrest them.
The attention has also brought heightened scrutiny on her.
Last year she was photographed with actor Nivin Pauly at a college function. The photo went viral drawing criticism from fringe media publications which wrongly claimed that she had broken a protocol when she got herself photographed in uniform.
Merin Joseph had made a Facebook post at the time rebutting the charge.
A native of Thiruvanthapuram, Merin Joseph, passed the civil services examination in 2012 in her first attempt.
A BA Hons from Stephen’s,Delhi , Merin Joseph is the third Malayali woman IPS officer to get Kerala cadre after R. Sreelekha and B. Sandhya.
A BA Hons from Stephen’s,
She is married to a Kottayam doctor, Chris Abraham.