After Pranit More, Madhur Virli, Aishwarya Mohanraj faces backlash for her joke on 'male babies'

The Indian stand-up comedy scene is currently facing an upheaval enough to probably get it banned for a while. After Pranit More's 'Rs 370 Ki Biryani' row and Madhur Virli's 'Cuddle after rape' row, now a female comedian is under the ire of social media users.

An old Comicstaan clip featuring Aishwarya Mohanraj has resurfaced on X (formerly Twitter), igniting debates on double standards for men and women. In the clip, Mohanraj joked about her brother's birth, stating that her mother wanted to cut his private parts, and began crying when she couldn't. Mohanraj further joked that when she had a son in the future, she would fulfil her mother's dream.Internet has been debating the boundaries of comedy all week.

According to them, if More and Virli can not be allowed to make such crude jokes about women, then Dr Sejal Pawar and Mohanraj must also not be left without due accountability.

“This isn’t comedy, it’s open hatred towards male children. Reverse the genders and the entire internet would explode. Double standards at their peak," wrote a user."Feminist women these days are so blind in their hatred towards men that they won't even spare a child.

Is this empowering? Why are people laughing at this? Talking about hurting male babies is comedy, but even consensual sex-related topics can get you fired," added another."Imagine a man saying he can't wait to hurt his future daughter because his father once wanted to. He would be destroyed publicly, lose his career, and rightly so. But when hatred towards men is packaged as feminism, even violence against male babies becomes "dark humour" and "empowerment," one asked."Society is heading to hell. How can someone laugh at the chopping of a baby boy’s genitals?" a user wrote.Beyond the gender discourse, the controversy has reignited the debate about whether modern-day stand-up comedy relies too heavily on graphic topics rather than genuine humour and wit.Moreover, with the internet wizards consistently digging up evidence on popular comics, it seems there's time for the debate to venture away from national conversations, unlike most cases.