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Teenagers today are growing up in a world completely alien to yesterday's aunties and uncles. So - what is it to be a teenage feminist in today's world?
Teenagers today are growing up in a world completely alien to yesterday’s aunties and uncles. So – what is it to be a teenage feminist in today’s world?
What is it, to be a teenage feminist? To be a 21st-century specimen loaded with a sharp tongue and a quick reflex to the word: FEMINISM
it bears deep within my skin, like a harsh cut made by no other than an outspoken aunty, laughing at my face, laughing at the thousand other girls, trying to love themselves. Or an oblivious uncle, to whom all words relating to a girl are nothing but taboos, to be kept safe inside, like a girl in a womb, never to come out.
What is it, to be toyed with? To be looked over, left unconsidered, all because to them, a mind play of a few biological fluids hinders my emotional and intellectual ability to critically analyse, and to make sense.
I know, I am not a mature adult. But I am not a naive child either, I am a teenager, a person of choice, Choice of identity, of faith, of ability, and a choice of equality. And that’s all that matters.
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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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