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A poem on being feminist in a patriarchal world, which is hard and sometimes it feels hopeless; still, the fight for equality carries on!
You know what. I’m tired. Being a feminist is hard. Going against the tide is hard. And then its all an idealistic society in your head (that you want and you think you can achieve it), but then you see bullshit everywhere and it makes you so depressed and angry and frustrated. And you have to live with it. And sometimes it all seems so hopeless. But you know its not. And that is so conflicting. And you wonder – is this really worth it? The next second a crappy thing happens and you say to yourself – of course it is. Look at what is happening. And you become alienated from friends and lovers because they, in some way, demean you. Of which you are blindingly aware of now. Suddenly, a relationship is not just a relationship where “love” is enough. Where most views you held while growing up are challenged. Why, for example, can men go out almost naked and a woman not? Why, for example, do women undergo virginity tests and not men? Nobody questions these, nobody talks. This is how nature made men and women. These are their roles. Follow them, or be ashamed of yourself. It makes me sad and enraged. Why do I feel this way? Conservatives would blame feminism. I blame patriarchy. After all, why should I even have to fight for rights and respect? Nobody ever said it was easy to follow the call of our heart and mind. And it is our right, our duty – to become us, the best of us.
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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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