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The recent incidents of men in flights urinating on women passengers with impunity (yes, there's one more reported) brings to mind the entitlement of men.
Trigger Warning: This deals with violence against women in graphic words and may be triggering to survivors.
Lately, we all have come across the horrific incidents of painful deaths of Shraddha Walkar, Anjali Singh, a woman being stabbed by a jilted lover, incidents of drunk and entitled men urinating on women mid air, a boyfriend ruthlessly beating his girlfriend, etc.
Why is it the woman who always has to be the victim? As once my daughter said, what’s the use of mental strength when physical strength dominates?
These are still grave issues. But as we daily read, we come across women who are victims of domestic violence. The so-called cultured and educated husband abusing his wife just because he thinks its his right to dominate or because he is physically stronger. Office tension, family tension, take out the anger on the wife and then say sorry as if nothing happened!
The worst part is the violence against the women never stops as women are asked to keep quiet, are victim-shamed, are slut-shamed, are coaxed to protect the family honor of in-laws, husband and parents! She endures day in and day out and is applauded for her “mental strength”.
When will women be stopped being treated so awfully, inside the homes and in the outside world?? Beat her, cut her, humiliate her, gaslight her, rape her, molest her, urinate on her, emotionally abuse her, yet somewhere the woman is blamed somehow, even after her death! Shraddha Walkar was accused of going against her parents, Anjali Singh’s friend accused her of being drunk..unbelievable! Of course, who can forget Nirbhaya..
Some incidents come under public eye, many don’t. When will the plight end? No idea…
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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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