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The recent submission by the central government to the Delhi HC against the criminalization of marital rape is not surprising, given our attitudes to women.
Hey women!
Marriage is holy, marriage is sacred,
It secures your life, your daily bread.
Marriage is a godly agreement
Bound by the ancient testament.
The religion of marriage is your subservience,
To bow to the male ego’s fragile mansion,
To pander, without fail, to his ominous passion.
Don’t spoil our culture as per your convenience.
Your man is your custodian, your God
Please surrender him your heart, soul and bod(y)
Don’t ever protest, don’t say no to him,
Even if you are broken to the brim.
Better stay quiet, swallow your pride,
It’s his right to be intimate with his bride.
Men are raw and tough,
And don’t women like it a bit rough?
You pretend to detest it,
But don’t you also like to be hit?
You can’t really send them all to jail
For such a petty, frivolous detail.
Now listen, all ye angry women,
You don’t hold a candle before men.
Stop being stupid, stop being uncouth,
Shut your dirty bloody mouth,
Like a piece of the zip lock tape,
Open your ruby lips when you are told to,
Satisfying your man’s furious libido
Is your duty, it’s not marital rape.
Think of your reputation, your family.
You don’t have support, you don’t have money.
How would you bear the jibes of society?
Because it’s a man’s word against your testimony.
Of the man’s cruelty, what evidence will have you?
Nobody, not even the lawkeepers would believe you.
We can’t let the spectrum of society fail,
Even if some women have it black, blue and pale.
So you see, why we can’t belittle and trivialize
the ancient, holy institution of marriage.
Why we can’t question and criminalize
Copulation, whatever the bride’s age.
Now stop raising ruckus without reason or rhyme,
Because even the lawmakers say it isn’t a crime.
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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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