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Would fewer men harass women sexually, if the subject were openly discussed in families? #ShareYourStory and break the silence at home!
Sexual harassment is such an everyday occurrence for the Indian woman that somewhere, we have learnt to accept it as a ‘normal’ part of lives. And what is accepted by society only grows!
Research shows that 90% of women in India have been harassed at least once in their lives. But it’s time to change it. Every girl and woman has the right to the streets and the skies, just like any man.
How do we make men a part of ending sexual harassment against women? To end Sexual Harassment, the conversation needs to begin at home.
That’s why Women’s Web is proud to be a partner of the new Breakthrough campaign #ShareYourStory. Read on to know more!
As part of this campaign, we invite women to write an open letter to their sons, talking about their experience of sexual harassment they have been through. (If you don’t have a son, imagine what you would say, or assume you are writing to a young friend, cousin or nephew).
You can also share a video too, where you talk about your experience, addressed to your son (or another young man).
The aim is to begin conversations at home and get young men to empathize with women, rather than view them as objects to harass.
To stop sexual harassment at every place, whether the street, home or office, we need to sensitize young men, on what a woman goes through facing it in her day to day life. Men need to stop believing too that there is ever anything cute or romantic about harassing a woman.
Hearing the truth from a woman in your own family can make more young men understand that sexual harassment is not fun and not ‘teasing’ but a scary, humiliating experience for women. Further, these young men can become champions in their own networks, teaching their friends why sexual harassment is neither ‘brave’ nor ‘fun’.
Submit your #ShareYourStory posts or video before 10th December.
All chosen blogposts and videos will be published on the Women’s Web’s site as well as at Breakthrough.
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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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