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Years of patriarchy and stereotyping has led us to believe that only mother's can nuture which is clearly not true .
Recently during a casual chat with my mother relating to the future ahead and my plans relating to work and marriage ( I am 24 so u know the talk )
During our conversation what irked me was a statement she made, “You know men aren’t capable of taking care of a child, they cannot nurture ”
This upset me, coming from the so call upper middle class educated bunch, my mom herself having worked 10 years it felt like we had made no improvement towards gender equality and that still at the grass root level such thoughts exist.
But then I started debating about the ” truth” in that sentence. Was she right my own father back in the days was scared to hold me as he was afraid to “break me”?
That is when I came across this documentary on Netflix called “Babies”, in the first episode they talk about this experiment conducted on new born parents.
They found that oxytocin the so called “love hormone” was released in the moms every time they interacted with their babies as a reward to the brain.
Now what was astonishing was when the same experiment was conducted on men it was found that equal levels of oxytocin was released in their bodies too!!!!
Finally this proved that “It’s a human thing not a girl/boy thing ”
Years of patriarchy and stereotyping has led us to believe that only mother’s can nurture which is clearly not true.
It’s high time we give the men their due of the “love hormone” and let them in on the”high”!
Image is a still from the Netflix documentary Babies
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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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