The billboard was removed the next day.
My friend Chamitha sent this to me today.
The sexist hoarding by @osmofitness and Blue Mountain has been taken down.#LKA #SriLanka pic.twitter.com/Rxee7fCVCo— Munza Mushtaq (@munza14) January 19, 2018
But the space wasn’t empty for long.
A local pro-women’s rights group put up their own, positive banner in the spot where the nasty, negative, shaming billboard had briefly stood.
Ha ha look at this! #SriLanka women’s rights movement has put this up on that space! Glad I was able to help. pic.twitter.com/xSo0iKf9Mu
— Harsha de Silva (@HarshadeSilvaMP) January 19, 2018
As for a translation of the rest of the poster, that’s a quote from Subramania Bharathiyar, a Tamil poet, revolutionary, and freedom fighter. The message: pointed, appropriate, and marvelous.
It is a famous quote from Tamil Poet and revolutionary Subramania Bharathiyar, it says " We will get rid of the stupidity of insulting women"
— Mahesh VP 🇮🇳 Advocate (@vp_mahesh) January 27, 2018