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A thought provoking poem which points out that we are told so many things from the time we are born as women. But, who hears our side of the story?
Don’t talk to strangers they say, But join one in matrimony and chart your life with dubious hope and prayer.
Be honest and speak your mind And be called blunt, crude or simply a bitch in the grind
Don’t speak at all, Your voice brings to us shame and horror, such gall!
Cover yourself well and maintain modesty The slightest show of skin, brings with it provocation and sin
Your honour lies with your skin, Touched without consent? Oh just take it on the chin!
A world where our roles as women Are curses and abuse rather than esteemed positions
They say behave like a lady Because raised volumes of our own volition are a hollow screech for society
Baby-breeding and not dream-churning machines, We stifle something far deeper than a scream.
Strangling some at birth, in the carefully concealed veil of sorrow in the room Forgetting that they too took form from the safe cocoon of her womb.
The smell of fear and despair paramount in the air, Memories of childhood and youth tarnished, we must bear.
They say be wed, life is difficult alone, we swear But would there be someone who would truly know how to care?
They say so much, as if on a mission But to us do they really listen?
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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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