Did You Know The Myntra Logo Was Offensive? Me Neither!

I am often struck by the fact that we have become an ‘Offended-istan’.  Jokes offend us, posts offend us, drawings offend us, language offends us, ads offend us --- and now it seems logos offend us too! I am a frequent shopper from the Myntra website and I never thought to take offence at the ‘M’ logo. I fact it never registered with me, save as a colourful, recognisable ‘M’. Now I am told the logo is offensive – why? Take a look:

This is the problem – apparently, the old logo (on the left) looked like whatever the hell it was supposed to be. So a complaint was filed in December 2020 and the logo was replaced with the one on the right.  

I'm pretty sure no one had thought that old logo to be anything other than an ‘M’. Thanks to the compliant by one Naaz Patel of the Avesta Foundation, all that changed.

What is offensive about that logo? This really puzzled a lot of netizens.

This is another M that someone else may find offensive?

What about the Doordarshan logo, asked many of the Tweeple.

Isn't this offensive to men (suggestive of male genitalia), asked this Twitter user.

Apparently they can, if one has an overactive imagination.

This is a complete nonissue; completely inconsequential, pointed out the tweeple.

The fact is that the logo being changed made no difference to anyone.

So should people demand changes in anything they imagine to be offensive?

The tweeple collated a bunch of other logos that could be deemed to be similarly ‘offensive’ or of a vaguely sexual nature.

Only someone with a really overactive imagination could have seen anything offensive or demeaning in that logo.

If one has a lewd enough mind, that is.

This tweet suggests ‘corrective’ action.

Apparently, anyone can find anything randomly offensive and then demand that their delicate sensibilities be assuaged.

For nearly every single person on earth, the new and old Myntra logos make zero difference.

In fact most cannot tell the difference between the old and new Myntra logos. Meanwhile, one Naaz Patel gained her 20 minutes of fame.