ISLAMABAD – Pakistan Digital Rights Foundation has conducted a researchsurvey over what male and female politicians of Pakistan were called onFacebook from January to July 2018.

According to an upcoming report by the foundation, female politicians weremostly called ‘cute’, ‘beautiful’ or ‘sexy’, while male politicians werenamed ‘thief’, ‘hero’ or ‘lion’ during this time frame.

Considering that 2018 was the election year in Pakistan, emotions ofpolitical workers and followers were at an all-time high on social media.

In a tweet, Digital Rights Founder Nighat Dad shared the summary of thereport: “While Pakistani women politicians are ‘sexy’ ‘cute’ & beautiful’in Facebook comments, male politicians can be a ‘lion’ ‘thief’ & ‘hero’.From our upcoming data-driven report on #PakElections2018: how womenpoliticians experience political campaigning online. Watch this space!”

The chart in the tweet shows all the names given to both the female andmale politicians on Facebook.