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Fat-shaming, loving your body and virginity are the topics of discussion this week. Check out these reads that we found interesting!
Chloe Angyal, an editor at Feministing.com, reminds us that you can’t tell much about a woman just from the shape of her body, even though most of us (including her) tend to make assumptions about women’s capabilities and lifestyles based on what they look like.
On a similar note, best-selling author Jennifer Weiner writes about the pain and humiliation that she experienced while growing up, just because she was fat, and explaining the importance of this to her daughter.
Here’s Issa Waters’ list of 21 things you should stop saying unless you hate fat people.
Blogger Stella Boonshoft posted a photo of herself on her blog as a statement on fat-shaming. The post and the photo have since gone viral. Read Laura Beck’s comments on the reactions Stella got.
Did you see the Republican Party’s latest anti-women rant? Indiana Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock thinks that when a woman is impregnated during a rape, “It’s something God intended”. Presidential candidate Mitt Romney still supports Mourdock.
Here’s another post by the awesome Chloe Angyal about US politics and and what’s missing from the debate on contraception and abortion.
Zulfiya Hamzaki discusses the context of the ‘vaginal tightening cream’ ad that was launched in India in August as well as the absurdity of the product itself.
A Brazilian student just auctioned off her virginity for $780,000. The auction has inspired both criticism and praise. Read the Indian Homemaker’s blog post about the auction. What do you think about this auction?
*Photo credit: Christi Nielsen (Used under the Creative Commons Attribution License.)
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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