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They say it’s bad to be selfish, or to care just for your dreams, ‘cos good women owe allegiance only to others’ ambitions and whims!
We often wonder what it is to be women, to be good women, to be considered as such Does one have to be innocent, coy, and understanding or is it all a ploy?
They say to understand silently is to be a good woman, They say support your beloved but for yourself, seek none They say your love should be unconditional, but as for theirs, conditions will apply And that’s how it is, so don’t ask why.
They say it’s normal to be treated differently, especially when cruelty is tendered so, so gently They say it’s bad to be selfish, or to care just for your dreams ‘cos good women owe allegiance only to others’ ambitions and whims
Beguiled and disheartened, We sigh and one last time, ask why! Weariness of it all wears us down So then we start to seek women with frown.
Women who have crinkled eyebrows Women whose innocence have been robbed Women who were once loving and gentle but are now looking daggers at the world as bereft of life, all they have left is their gold.
Then they realise the gold they’ve earned is theirs to keep So they dust themselves off, smile bright and bury them deep.
Ridden from the vapid, they let themselves be Cut away from the world and its silly expectation, threw the flowers away from their hairs and set them free They drank wine to merry and smile with glee. After years of sleep, at last they feel widely woken for they finally reclaimed the women who are called ‘broken’.
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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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