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The IWD 2022 theme is #BreakTheBias, so the poet wants to know - whom are they asking to do this? Because women have been breaking the bias anyway, just not heard always.
I do not know whom it is that they call
When they say #breakthebias
Women, for one, have been breaking it
For a long time now
Toxic cycles, generational trauma, glass ceilings
To name a few
You can of course feel good
Crossing your forearms
And smiling for pictures
That are nothing but a bunch of nauseating crap
We don’t really give.
However if you really are in a breaking mood today,
Break your silence and ask yourself this
Do I really care?
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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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