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Why celebrate Women's Day? What is the point of it all? Maybe there is some meaning to the madness.
Why celebrate Women’s Day? What is the point of it all? Maybe there is some meaning to the madness.
Women make up half of the world’s population, and every year, on the 8th of March, women are celebrated. But has the burning question of ‘why’ ever lingered your mind? Why do we devote an entire day just to women? What is the point of it? Well, the points are many and the devotion is vital.
Too often, women are objectified and poorly represented in both cinema and television – take Bollywood’s ‘item numbers’ as an example. But this is not it, it is all not about ‘item numbers’ or women being poorly represented in the media, it is also about the struggles women face that tend to be overlooked by dozens.
Women are the oppressed class in the gender spectrum. Women across the world have been and continue to be victims of violence, oppression and discrimination – politically, economically and socially.
When something goes wrong, it is often the woman’s honour that is questioned – take the dozens of violence against women cases that go unreported because the ‘honour’ of the woman is looked at before her safety.
And in many cases, women are just expected to accept whatever it is they come across, be it domestic abuse or violence that occurs during times of political conflict.
So Women’s Day is celebrated, to honour each and every woman of yesterday, today and tomorrow. To celebrate being a woman and to celebrate women, to acknowledge the struggles they face and to remind the world that this is not the end of women’s fight to freedom.
This is dedicated to all the women out there and may this be a reminder to respect women because they are people, and to always remember that without them we would be nowhere.
Published earlier here.
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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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