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How we bind our girls as soon as they become 'old enough'...it's time to set our girls free from all those outdated customs.
How we bind our girls as soon as they become ‘old enough’…it’s time to set our girls free from all those outdated customs.
Twinkle Twinkle little star Now your childhood is at bar You are 13 and so young No, don’t you jump
No, don’t you sit like this Be poised, behave delicately You are a girl with puberty on Be sensitive, your Childhood is gone
Hey, don’t talk of it so loud Keep the subject secret bound Neither do this, nor that Hey, don’t fumble Just mind it.
Go through the list and mind it. Don’t you dare to touch this Don’t you prefer to wear that. Don’t play sport Save the hymen for more.
Don’t you choose Learn to amuse Accept the curse Grow more adverse
I know you’re baffled on the foreground To dig the taboo on the ground I went through the same And still I’m a sane victim
A goddess is pure and divine But a lady with blood is intangible Before puberty they touch your feet Will make you sit on a throne seat
You are an epitome of their favourite goddess Who enjoys the divine power But suddenly all divinity gets lost Now your blood makes you impure You are no more an epitome Instead, a bitter dose
Ah! What Sadists they are Ah! What fools we are They said, we believed They tyrannize us We squeeze
We allow them To curse the generic ground It’s because of this blood They are born It’s because of this blood They’ll have genetic clones
I’m sorry my girl To force you with norms You are free To give this malpractice a blow
Uproot this taboo Punch the hypocrites tight Go spread your wings and fly There is no age bar Yes you are 13 Still a twinkling star So Twinkle Twinkle my little star!
Myself Pooja aka Nirali. 'Nirali' who is inclusion of all good(s) n bad(s). Not a writer, just trying to be outspoken. While playing the roles of a daughter, a wife, a mother, a 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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