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As women, the most important thing we can do for our cause is to create support systems instead of pulling each other down like patriarchy wants us to.
Dear Women,
Keep growing. Have a circle of your own. Don’t close yourself in four walls, not much nor many grow there. Have your girl gang. Be on forums. Join a community of people who are experts in their own field. Reach out for an advice when needed. Don’t burn yourself and the ones around in your ego.
It’s okay to be wrong. But don’t stop learning. That’s wrong. Wisdom doesn’t come naturally or supernaturally with age. It comes with right kind of knowledge. Work for it. Again, reach out.
Be supportive. Don’t marinate in someone’s mediocrity and put down other women, young or old. Hold their hand and look in the same direction.
Take your own space, create it, if need be. And give the ones around you, their own. If you want a table to stand, a sofa to settle, you have to give it the space to stand, a place to settle. Give it that.
Change is vital, the only constant. Accept change with open arms. Old ways won’t open new doors. Update yourself. Find your best version.
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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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