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No, domestic violence is never funny, whoever is at the receiving end. If you're making these memes, you're probably not that funny either.
No, domestic violence is never funny, whoever is at the receiving end. If you’re making these memes, you’re probably not that funny either.
Over the last week, I see memes and posts about women hitting men going around and about “how hilarious” it is to get hit by your wife. There are two ways to look at this and both bother me to no end.
Just one of the many not funny memes floating around on Facebook
The first way (and I don’t regret saying it) is that these are again nonsensical ways to create the stereotypical images of the MONSTER WOMAN. Once you’re married, life is over because that lady is going to anyway make your life miserable.
Another is that these reinforce the idea that men need to wear this mask that says “I am always strong” and “Nothing can affect me.”
If you think a woman hitting a man is funny, think again. I’ve been an unfortunate witness to such abuse and have also seen the man not even defend himself because it is “wrong” to hit a woman. Any kind of abuse sends chills down your spine and this kind where you’re emotionally manipulated not even to defend yourself is terrible.
The next time you want to “laugh” or “brush it off” because…what kind of a man gets hit by his wife or a woman and stays silent? The answer is…it could be any kind of a man in any kind of abusive relationship.
And he needs help. Pretty much it. And no, this isn’t your invitation to “See, men get abused too..” Men get abused. That’s it.
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A marketing graduate from the Indian School Of Business, Nandhitha is passionate about writing. She loves to write about the world around her and also enjoys dabbling with fiction/poetry. read more...
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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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