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Check out this week's interesting finds - teenage sexuality, outdated customs, and the US presidential elections!
Check out this week’s interesting finds – teenage sexuality, outdated customs and the US presidential elections!
Clementine Ford writes about societal policing of teenage girls’ sexuality and how we do our best to deny and suppress it.
Canadian teenager Amanda Todd allegedly killed herself this week after suffering through years of cyber-bullying. Will this convince cyber-bullies to stop?
Read Ramaa Sonti’s account of the day her daughter first started menstruating, and the hurtful “customs” she had to follow.
The US Presidential elections are just around the corner. Go read Dilnavaz Bamboat’s post on Ultraviolet about “How American Politics Reinforces Stereotypes of Wifehood”. (And on a funny note, have you tried searching for ‘completely wrong’ on Google Images yet?)
This post by Mayank Tyagi on Halabol gives a short overview of the situation of women in India even after 65 years of Independence.
*Photo credit: JD’na (Used under the Creative Commons Attribution License.)
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He said that he needed sometime to himself. I waited for him as any other woman would have done, and I gave him his space, I didn't want to be the clingy one.
Trigger Warning: This deals with mental trauma and depression, and may be triggering for survivors.
I am someone who believes in honesty and trust, I trust people easily and I think most of the times this habit of mine turns into bane.
This is a story of how a matrimonial website service turned into a nightmare for me, already traumatized by the two relationships I’ve had. It’s a story for every woman who lives her life on the principles of honesty and trust.
And when she enters the bedroom, she sees her husband's towel lying on the bed, his underwear thrown about in their bathroom. She rolls her eyes, sighs and picks it up to put in the laundry bag.
Vasudha, age 28 – is an excellent dancer, writer, podcaster and a mandala artist. She is talented young woman, a go getter and wouldn’t bat an eyelid if she had to try anything new. She would go head on with it. Everyone knew Vasudha as this cheerful and pretty young lady.
Except when marriage changed everything she knew. Since she was always outdoors, whether for office or for travelling for her dance shows, Vasudha didn’t know how to cook well.
Going by her in-laws definition of cooking – she had to know how to cook any dishes they mentioned. Till then Vasudha didn’t know that learning to cook was similar to getting an educational qualification. As soon as she entered the household after her engagement, nobody was interested what she excelled at, everybody wanted to know – what dishes she knew how to cook.