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A good woman has no identity of her own; she is a mother, a daughter, a sister, and a wife. She is happy to exist only in these relations because what more could she possibly want?
Every man is a good man, he may be a violent unemployed penniless drunkard, but he is a good man because he is a man.
Fate may have created problems for him, but all he needs is a good woman to help him overcome the misfortune of his fate; for that is her destiny and that is her only purpose — to make his life better.
A good woman has no identity of her own; she is a mother, a daughter, a sister, and a wife. She is happy to exist only in these relations because what more could she possibly want? It is the fulfilment of her existence to serve others.
A good woman is happy making others happy. She has no dreams of her own beyond fulfilling the dreams of others in her life. She is self-sacrificing, she never has an opinion of her own. Likewise, she is happy to be led by those who know better.
She can live with hunger and pain; nay, she revels in pain, for pain is her saviour. It will make her pure and good. She never complains. She takes responsibility for everything that goes wrong.
After all, if it was not written in her fate to see unhappiness, why would her family members be unhappy?
She is a martyr. She will happily face every sorrow if it will make others happy. Her family’s ‘good name’ rests in her hands—in her body, to be precise.
She is the upholder of all religious practices and cultural values and yet as the weaker sex, she can do all this only by following the instructions laid down for her by the men in her life.
She must be the embodiment of every virtue and if she isn’t then she must learn through the pain and suffering that is in her fate.
She is a good woman.
She wants nothing for herself.
She is a good woman, but she is more than a woman.
She is a goddess!
But a goddess is never human! So how can a woman be a good woman?
Image source: Still from Brahmastra Trailer, edited on CanvaPro
Asfiya Rahman, a management graduate, is a teacher by occupation and a writer by inclination. She has published many short stories in different publications and is the author of the sports drama trilogy Wild, Wild 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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