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This is the time when a woman needs a lot of emotional support, but mostly it's believed that she is fine.
One of the toughest phase in a woman’s life is during her mid to late 40s. Everything starts leaving her… parents get older and leave the world, children grow up and leave the nest to build a life of their own, beauty starts fading, health and energy levels lessen, menopause slowly sets in, many friends leave; this is the stage where a woman is lonely in many ways.
It’s assumed that only homemakers feel void and empty, but I have seen this in women who have a full-time job as well.
This is the time when a woman needs a lot of emotional support, but mostly it’s believed that she is fine.
Learn to be kinder. No one should simply point out how she has gained weight or has dark circles or her skin is sagging or that she shouldn’t be depressed.
Be kind to every woman you meet, sometimes hear your friend, colleague or your sister out. Eventually everyone learns to cope, but sometimes all women need is someone to hear them out, someone to understand. It’s a tough phase after all.
Women going through this will relate…
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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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