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Didn't it take two to make the baby? And so both must raise it equally. Why should she always be on call and he is, by and large, carefree!
Didn’t it take two to make the baby? And so both must raise it equally. Why should she always be on call and he is, by and large, carefree!
She gave birth to a child And a mother was born Or that’s what she believed Little did she know She had to be its everything ‘Father’ was just a title, you see
Wait, I’m being too harsh He plays with her everyday And babysits on occasion Surely those moments count When he takes some responsibility?
Hell no, it took two to make that baby! Both must raise it equally Why then should she always be on call While he is, by and large, carefree!
If only new moms got more support They’d be less prone to PPD
This poem was inspired by the following article: ‘Tired’ mom kills 2-month-old, dumps body in manhole
Picture credits: Still from Netflix movie Ghost Stories
Mahevash Shaikh is a millennial blogger, author, and poet who writes about mental health, culture, and society. She lives to question convention and redefine normal. read more...
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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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