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Body image issues and eating disorder start as young as 12 in girls! Here is a hard hitting poem about living in a fatphobic society.
TW: Eating disorder, body-image issues, mentions of drugs.
Am I skinny enough?
Should I lose more weight?
Should I eat less?
Maybe I should take some pills.
Should I sleep more to avoid eating?
Will keeping myself busy make me forget about eating?
Maybe I shouldn’t meet my friends,
If I do, I would have to eat.
And my seven days fast would go to waste.
Is that one piece of dosa?
I had in the morning,
Making me look fat?
Maybe I should vomit
Forcefully after this meal,
Secretly without anyone noticing.
Maybe I should start cardio
Maybe I should work out more
Maybe I should do yoga
Maybe I should just do drugs
Maybe
Maybe someday I will be enough.
Will I ever be enough?
Image source: Still from Ad Campaign by Dove #StopTheBeautyTest, edited on CanvaPro
If our readers or someone you know is suffering from eating-disorders because of body image issues or if social anxiety is leading them to harmful thoughts: please try to get help immediately.
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Ms. Kulkarni, please don’t apologise ‘IF’ you think you hurt women. Apologise because you got your facts wrong. Apologise for making sexual harassment a casual joke.
If Sonali Kulkarni’s speech on most modern Indian women being lazy left me shocked and enraged, her apology post left me deeply saddened.
I’d shared my thoughts on her problematic speech in an earlier article. So, I’ll share why I felt Kulkarni’s apology post was more damaging than her speech.
If her speech made her an overnight hero among MRAs, sexists, and people who were awed by her dramatic words, then her apology post made her a legendary saint.
There are many mountains I need to climb just to be, just to live my life, just to have my say... because they are mountains you've built to oppress women.
Trigger Warning: This deals with various kinds of violence against women including rape, and may be triggering for survivors.
I haven’t climbed a literal mountain yet Was busy with the metaphorical ones – born a woman Fighting for the air that should have come free And I am one of the privileged ones, I realize that
Yet, if I get passionate, just like you do I will pay for it – with burden, shame, – and possibly a life to carry So, my mountains are the laws you overturn My mountains are the empty shelves where there should have been pills
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