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Why judge women over their physical appearance? Is it all that matters?
Why is it that you cannot see, I am what God made me to be?
The colors of my skin, its dusky tinge; are all what God gave me!
You look at me, you see my dark skin tone; you see dusk settling on bronze.
You forget that behind that visage is a person that dusky skin does ensconce.
A person prone to deep hurt, you break her a little every time you ridicule.
For the spoken word has a power to hurt that trust me is not minuscule.
So I implore you to pay some heed, what’s in my mind, please so read –
Judge me not by my skin’s color; rather judge me by my character.
Why is it that when you look at me, you see not the person that I can be
You want me to be the person that you desire, do not allow me to be what I aspire
You look at my body with repugnance; you judge my waist for its ample girth
You forget, I have feelings, I am the same woman who to your children, gave birth
Your sarcasm cleaves a hurt that is deep, many nights I have cried myself to sleep
I questioned God whether it was me who was wrong? I asked him to make me strong.
God still has not answered me but I do wish that you could see –
Judge me not by my poundage; rather judge me by my courage.
First published here.
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Sonal is a multiple award winning blogger and writer and the founder of a women-centric manpower search firm - www.rianplacements.com. Her first book, a volume of poetry - Islands in the stream - is slated 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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