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Women are expected to be superwomen - managing a job, home, kids, everything! I don't care about becoming a superwoman. I'd rather be my human self!
Women are expected to be superwomen – managing a job, home, kids, everything! I don’t care about becoming a superwoman. I’d rather be my human self!
Super Man– One who has extraordinary powers to save the world. He has great strength, ability to fly. He is super-intelligent.
Super-Woman– a woman with exceptional physical or mental ability, especially one who successfully manages a home, brings up children, and has a full-time job.
Why can’t a woman be a superwoman if she simply saves the world? Why does she need to worry about managing everything – the home, kids, jobs, etc? Isn’t the superman’s job a cakewalk compared to the superwoman’s?
He simply needs to focus on one thing, and if there is no threat to the world, he doesn’t need to manage the house, kids, etc. to retain his superman title. However, a woman needs to be continuously on her toes to meet everyone’s demands to retain her title.
Why can’t a woman who simply chooses to focus on and excel in her career be a superwoman? Why does she need to excel in the household chores too?
Why does a woman who chooses to focus on her children and house not become a super-woman? Why does she need a high-profile, high-paying job to prove she is superwoman?
As they say, women are breaking boundaries. They are choosing fields which were hitherto male dominated. However, choosing a pathbreaking career does not catapult a woman to a superwoman position. She needs to prove her mettle in household chores, raising kids, etc.
There is a lot of pressure amongst women especially the working women to excel in every field. Doing an excellent job at work is great but can you bake a cake? Or do you get to spend enough time with your child after working so late?
And the housewives have a different dilemma altogether. Their work is not noticed to even garner appreciation. The funny part is, if she does a great job at managing the needs of her household, it is dubbed as a minimum expectation owing to the fact that she stays at home anyway. And if she is not managing well, then she is completely useless.
I don’t want to be a super-woman. After working for 12 hours in office, I cannot go back home and do all the household chores. I get tired too. And during my days off, I too like to relax. I would like to read a book or sleep or watch my favorite TV series all day. No, I don’t feel like cleaning my house or trying to cook a new exotic dish. I don’t care if you think – “forget superwoman she is not even a woman.”
I am human and surprisingly my hormones do not behave the way they are expected to. Since they are a rebel, so am I.
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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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