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In response to Vidya Balan's recent statement about an army jawan ogling her breasts when she was in college, another jawan does something even more disgusting.
In response to Vidya Balan’s recent statement about an army jawan ogling her breasts when she was in college and a man dressed in army uniform does something even more disgusting.
Vidya Balan, recently in an interview, revealed that during her college years she was ogled at by an army jawan while standing on a railway station. So, as obvious it is, this speaking up invited a lot of trolling towards Balan.
Amid all that, a man dressed in army uniform who identified as a jawan responded to the statement with a video on youtube, reciting a crude poem in Hindi against her. I caught the following lines from the poem, which show the amount if crudeness it had.
“[…] oolala gaati picture mein, nanga seena taan gayi , Sena ke jawan ki nazrein tiki, bura kyun maan gayi?”
“[…] oolala gaati picture mein, nanga seena taan gayi ,
Sena ke jawan ki nazrein tiki, bura kyun maan gayi?”
This roughly translates in English to:
“You sing oolala in movies, with your bare chest then why do you mind so much if a jawan’s eyes fell on your breast?”Never miss real stories from India's women.Register Now
“You sing oolala in movies, with your bare chest
then why do you mind so much if a jawan’s eyes fell on your breast?”
There’s more:
“[…] paise lekar jism dikhaana, uspar bhale sharafat kya ek jawaan ne freefund mein dekh lia toh aafat kya?”
“[…] paise lekar jism dikhaana, uspar bhale sharafat kya
ek jawaan ne freefund mein dekh lia toh aafat kya?”
This roughly translates to:
“There is nothing respectful about you showing skin for money, So what is the problem if one jawaan saw it for free?”
“There is nothing respectful about you showing skin for money,
So what is the problem if one jawaan saw it for free?”
This man shamed Balan for doing movies like The Dirty Picture and Ishqiya, in which she showed a lot of skin. I’m sorry but is it so hard to grasp the fact that all the things she does in movies (which is part of her job) are done with her consent, unlike this ogling that men do on the streets? I am appalled at this articulation of pure misogyny.
But then, the fine people in the army come from the same society we live in, and since this society objectifies women, it not really surprising that this sort of hate has surfaced. Just because this man says he is from the army, we cannot ignore the nauseating things he says. We know that the army protects our country, and we support it with all our heart. But it is also true that people like these cannot be excused because they belong to a particular profession.
Think about this, for a while and let us know what you think!
Image source: YouTube and By BollywoodHungama (BollywoodHungama direct link) [CC BY 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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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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