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Does patriarchy affect only women? What about men who cannot choose their career because they have to 'earn a living'? Gender does not matter - all suffer, even if women suffer more.
Does patriarchy affect only women? What about men who cannot choose their career because they have to ‘earn a living’? Gender does not matter – all suffer, even if women suffer more.
When we talk of patriarchy it’s almost implied
It has only affected women worldwide
The really short end of the stick they’ve received
While men do as they please, so is perceived
Now let me frame this in a different way
It might be controversial, what I have to say
I think men are victims, equally
At the hands of a patriarchal society
Taught to behave a certain way from an early age
Bottling up emotions that turns into rage
Buried under the weight of societal expectations
Trying to project strength during stressful situations….
Toxic masculinity results when patriarchy prevails
Oppression of women increases, the social structure fails
To preserve the balance it was supposed to maintain
Neither women nor men unaffected remain..
No one benefits from gender hegemony
Imbalance of power is the worst enemy
Equality, not just feminism, is the need of the hour
Equal recognition, equal expectations, equal power…
A version of this was first published here.
Image source: a still from the movie Astitva
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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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