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Check out this new Instagram handle, @sodonechilling, that is grabbing attention for its no BS approach to rape culture.
Rape Culture is a problem that we have somehow normalised to the extent where we don’t even see it as a problem but as a usual mundane reality. Rape culture is nothing but exactly this normalisation of sexual assault and violence.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BadzSQ5Bvrn/?taken-by=sodonechilling
To challenge something that is so deeply embedded in our systems, on the levels of the individual, country and even the whole wide world, is a great task. But a step like this is vital to ensure that there might be a chance of dismantling this rigid structure. The very first thing that is to be done is to call it out like this page is doing. Call out all these signs that you witness, anytime and anywhere. To begin with, in your mind – so that you can go ahead and spread this awareness.
This campaign is the brainchild of writer and artist Sheena Dabholkar, who recently called out the founder and team of the popular High Spirits Cafe in Pune for sexual harassment of female guests and performers at the venue.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BabME1jhRer/?taken-by=sodonechilling
Cultures grow because we let them, and then they get cemented into our very beings. Question what you don’t understand, ask them out loud and get discussions going. This is not something that we can get rid of by going on a bloody rampage with a chainsaw, but by talking. By doing our part, helping people around us grow into better individuals. That is of supreme importance. Doing our bit is more important than we think, and extremely so.
The medium that the admins of this page have chosen is very clever – they know how Instagram has taken over our lives and what it can do to spread ideas in an accessible way. I hope this movement gathers momentum, more than it already has, to bring about a much-required change in our society.
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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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