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It is important to understand the kind of image that is being created in the minds of the audience.
Why is it that media always portrays an independent woman as the bad woman, rebellious, highly impulsive and who ends up having sex with anyone and everyone she meets?Also what genuinely troubles me is the fact that the media usually portrays successful women as divorcee, detached from their families or having complicated relationships with their partners. Why is it that ONLY this kind of portrayal is being repeatedly shown?
On the other hand, independence does gives a woman the authority to take her own decisions and this authority in a way empowers her. But why is it that the concept of empowerment is only limited to sexual independence ? So is it that one should comprehend that a woman having authority over her sexuality is an empowered woman ?
It is important to understand the kind of image that is being created in the minds of the audience. For those who are upfront and who have access to various forms of media will not be affected a lot. Because they have a platter of different genres of portrayal being bombarded on them.But think about the audience who doesn’t have access to the varied media platforms. By repeatedly exposing them to a specific way of portrayal of women, isn’t there something going wrong ? Aren’t we sending a covert message that negotiation has no scope at all and for a woman to be empowered she needs to be rebellious, off the hook and then only she can get empowered.
Isn’t this loophole and half baked content going to backfire ?
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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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