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When will men, especially men in power, stop thinking of women just as baby making machines that can uphold a patriarchy that benefits only men?
In a downright regressive comment, Madhya Pradesh CM Sajjan Singh Verma stirred a controversy with his remark on a woman’s minimum age for marriage that has been proposed to be increased from 18 to 21 years by Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan.
According to Congress leader Sajjan Singh Verma “A girl is ready for reproduction at the age of 15 so on what basis does girls’ marriage age should be increased to 21 from 18.” Verma had said this while questioning the ‘logic behind 21 years’ as the legal marriage age for girls as suggested by the CM.
Bureaucrats said that Chief Minister Chouhan had “raised a serious issue but Congress’ mentality has been exposed”. Assumimg the proposal to have been opposed due to hate political motives, this controversy highlights more than just party-political contentions.
This statement by Verma conveniently foregrounds the pathetic mentality which feeds the everyday sexism that women face.
Digging deep into this assertion, calling out this proposal by arguing only on the basis of ‘reproductive maturity’ of girls is a clear-cut indication of the psyche of most people in our country, who consider a woman just someone who is made for creating babies.
The thought itself is sordid and disgraceful.
It minimises a woman’s capabilities and limits her to just an object to copulate and procreate. It denies women their humanity, and everything they capable of and duly deserve for. A mindset that looks only for the ‘utility’ of women.
Is that all that these people think a woman is capable of?
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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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