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Even as she garners expertise in a variety of fields, a woman is often judged for her prowess as a homemaker alone.
Even as she garners expertise in a variety of fields, a woman is often judged for her prowess as a homemaker – while her male counterpart easily escapes being marked for his role as a partner or parent.
It is indeed sad that the yellow stains on his shirt are enough to pull down her expertise as a group leader, a sportsperson, a technician, a teacher or simply a human being. To all those women who have been let down for stained shirts and more……
There were those yellow stains on his shirt She couldn’t get them away The detergent didn’t help much She tried anyway.
They saw the yellow stains Nothing could be worse His honour was at stake Couldn’t she have rubbed enough?
Those yellow stains would stay As long as she chose her ways With life invested in office files Blotches would forever stay.
Yellow stains are irresponsible They exhibit promiscuous ways Those appraisals hardly mean a thing Until you get those stains away!
And so they hang the yellow stains On the right-most shelf with the appreciation card So the next time you walk into her house You don’t miss The Yellow Stains.
First published at author’s blog.
Top image is from a collection of old sexist ads, via this article.
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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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