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Silence will not end domestic violence, your voice will. Speak up. Your silence is doing more harm than good. End the cycle of violence NOW.
Silence will not end the cycle of domestic violence, your voice will. Speak up. Your silence is doing more harm than good. End it NOW.
The vicious cycle of domestic violence. A reality that remains confined to hushed tones and behind closed doors. It is not always physical; so the scars are not visible. But it is there; the sneaky monster is there and escaping it is easier said than done. The psychological manipulations; the sight of the child; the family’s reputation!
Oh! There’s too much at stake! No! I can’t speak up!
So what do I do? I hide. No, not myself, the scars!
There! There they go. Safely tugged behind the smiles.
But what about the eyes? The eyes that see it all, every day, every night?
The eyes of your boy that saw how daddy silenced mommy by throwing a glass at her just because the milk was not warm enough! He now knows how to silence his ‘woman’!
The eyes of your girl that saw how mommy was manipulated by daddy into believing that she got hit because it was her fault. She now knows how to be silenced by her ‘man’!
Did the silence help?
Watch this video that won the FIRST place in the Action Against Gender Based Violence (GBV) film festival by U.S. Consulate General Chennai: “Silence the Violence” – it’s not just the spouse who suffers.
This video is a grim reminder that by choosing ‘silence’, you are not helping anyone — neither yourself nor your loved ones. #DontBeSilentSpeakUp
Image: U.S. Consulate General Chennai
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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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