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Renu Bhatia claimed that girls should keep in mind that “bad things” could happen to them if they go to an OYO room to meet a friend.
A woman can make a woman or break a woman. There is a quote, ”when women support each other, incredible things happen.” But here the opposite is happening. A woman is shaming other women.
Recently, Renu Bhatia, President of the Haryana Women’s Commission, who presided over a cybercrime awareness programme at RKSD College in Kaithal, made a sexist comment while addressing the students. “Girls do not go to OYO rooms to perform aarti to Lord Hanuman”. Further she said that girls often complain of being sexually assaulted after they meet an online friend in an OYO room.
She explained that girls would say that he made me drink something, assaulted me, and filmed the act. She claimed that girls should keep in mind that “bad things” could happen to them if they go to an OYO room to meet a friend.
Honestly, I really want to meet her in person and ask her, “who gave you the right to assassinate a woman’s character here?” She herself being a woman has held another woman responsible if she is raped or assaulted, and declared the man as innocent?
Seriously, does a man who is raping or assaulting the woman have no fault.. Is he innocent? I understand some women can be in the wrong, but generalizing the whole community and insulting women on a whole is really a shame.
I wrote this in an earlier piece as well, and mentioned again that such comments and verdicts only boost and motivate criminals. I always used to hear that men’s brotherhoods are much more loyal and powerful than sisterhoods; here Renu Bhatia has proved this.
If friends are like this, who needs an enemy?
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Smriti Malhotra is a Delhi girl and an avid dreamer. She works at the Embassy of the Republic of Congo by profession but is a writer by passion. She began writing while at school and 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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