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Men seem to feel that staring at women in public places and moral policing is their birthright by gender. How is this OK?
We have all been victims of them – the staring eyes, that feeling of disgust as you feel the ogling.
In this video uploaded by the channel Chase, the video presenters actually confront these men. The team seemed to consist of three people – two women and a man. The women would walk in front and the man would notice who was staring at them. Then, together they would go and question the man about the reasons behind his actions.
What was shocking was how opinionated some of the men were about what constitutes ‘decent’ dressing and what doesn’t. One went as far as to say that rape was good in case the girl wore short or even fitting clothes!
It seems that some men have taken it upon themselves to decide what constitutes standard dressing for girls. Then they also have the excuse of only looking at beautiful things; that they had every right to appreciate beauty and that there is no reason to be bothered by it.
Thus, in a way it is an assertion of power, an assertion of the dominance they feel entitled to. It is like they want to see how far they can stretch the boundaries because a woman feels powerless.
A woman in this video talks about how traumatizing such incidents can be which resonates with most of us. We truly do sometimes feel incapable of taking any kind of action when such perverted incidents occur. This power play comes at a very heavy cost to women who cannot walk, move or express themselves freely.
The video also points out the important factor that such a mentality is not confined to a particular class of men. It is all around us and women from all walks of life have been hapless victims of this form of abuse. It is very important to address this flawed mindset of the people. They need to start taking responsibility for their actions and start recognizing that such behaviour is totally unacceptable.
Watch the video 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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