Nepali women say they are not just ‘cheli’ but individuals in their own right.

 Many have protested the media’s use of the word ‘cheli’ to refer to women athletes, arguing that it is patronising and demeaning.

While Nepali women were winning medals and breaking records at the South Asian Games, a conflict of a different kind was taking place on social media. Last week, many women and some men took umbrage at the Nepali media’s use of the term ‘cheli’ to refer to women athletes, arguing that the word was patronising and demeaning. Others, mostly men, defended the use of the word on the grounds that it was a harmless, even endearing, way to refer to women.

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