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This article caught my eye yesterday, which celebrates and praises Aamir Khan, aged 57 for embracing his white hair and beard.
Wow! How brave of him to not only show up in his greys at an event but also to announce that he is going to take a year off from acting and focus on his family. Such a devoted family man.
Well, just for a minute, let’s reverse the situation and have Madhuri Dixit aged 55 appear in an event with grey hair, and announcing that she is going to take a further break from acting so she can spend time with her family.
What do you think will be the reaction of media, fans, and the industry wallas? What will be the headlines on social media and articles regarding her grey hair? How many articles and producers / directors / co-stars would write off her career on such an announcement? Do you think she will be celebrated and welcomed back with open arms when she comes back after a year?
Aamir Khan comes back with a huge budget movie starring a heroine in her early 20’s while Madhuri will be struggling to find even a low budget film for herself. She will most probably come back as a reality show judge or as a mother to Aamir Khan in that big budget film.
And this attitude where for the same thing men are celebrated and welcomed back whereas women are blacklisted or put on the back burner is across sectors and geography, as I quote another example.
As this tweet telling stated, Nancy Pelosi is 82. She just led House Democrats to an unexpectedly good midterms outcome. Media’s first question is when she’ll retire. Mitch McConnell is 80. He just led Senate Republicans to a humiliating defeat. Not one question about when he’ll step aside.
It is time we women rally with each other, support one another and start calling out this everyday in your face patriarchy. The time is over where we sit meekly letting them go on hoping that someone will bring in the change. I think it is each of our responsibility to bring about that change, even if it is in that 1 person around us.
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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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