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The author makes an argument wherein she says that women fought on their own and men did not play a role in their battle against equality.
Today, when I was talking to my boyfriend I asked if he is a feminist and he replied that he is an “Equalist”. It sparked something in me. There are men giving equality to women in everything but, still some men consider women the weaker sex. Of course feminists have fought back for equal rights and equal opportunities in almost every field.
It is still a patriarchal society and the men think that they have let us win our fight. No, we didn’t win something, we fought for what actually belonged to us. We should have had equal rights. But, the patriarchal society held it back. You can take credit for just one thing- you made us come together and fight against the suppression. So don’t act as if you took pity on us and gave away equal rights. We fought back for what is ours and you offered us what we wanted.
Don’t say ‘we have given you equal opportunities, we have granted you equality in everything’ . You don’t grant us anything. When you couldn’t tolerate our fight, you backed out. As we fight back for what belongs to us, we can’t accept this lie that, ‘feminists were given equality by men’. We were suppressed, we were denied our rights, we realized, we fought, we gained our actual rights. You have nothing to do with this. Stay away as you have no part to play in our victory.
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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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