Check out 16 Return-To-Work Programs In India For Ambitious Women Like You!
I respect each woman making a choice to observe this, and I wish them a successful married life. What I am against is, being penalized and sidelined for my own choices.
Writing this piece on a sunny Sunday while taking it slow and easy. I can’t ignore the fact that today is the most celebrated day for loving wives across the nation. Karwa chauth is back again.
To be clear I have no animosity towards the tradition, I respect each woman making a choice to observe this, and I wish them a successful married life. What I am against is, being penalized and sidelined for my own choices.
Let me introduce you here to the pretentious Indian woman.
She is a symbol of hypocrisy and superficial exterior. She is the one person who will outcast and judge another woman without knowing her story. She thrives on gossip and gets fuelled by other’s sadness. Her aim in life is to compete and win even if it means hurting someone’s sentiment.
This woman is the one who judges simple happy couples who keep to themselves. She measures a successful marriage by the number of social media posts about how much a husband loves his wife. She is the one who pretends and manipulates her husband and belittles him behind his back.
I love you’s by her are as fake as her make up.
So when such a woman questions you for your choices, believe me it’s best to ignore her.
I truly believe that, no matter how many questions are raised about how I choose to be a wife or how I choose to run my life.
I will always stand true to my choices because appeasing a pretentious woman is highly obnoxious.
So to all wonderful wives out there who genuinely care for their husbands and don’t belive in a social media fasting and gift giving trend. More power to you. May you continue to shine in your simplicity.
Image source: a still from the film Haseen Dilruba
read more...
Women's Web is an open platform that publishes a diversity of views, individual posts do not necessarily represent the platform's views and opinions at all times.
Stay updated with our Weekly Newsletter or Daily Summary - or both!
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.
Please enter your email address