[Aditi Sahu]

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1 in 3 women experience physical or sexual violence. Does this even sound surprising? Unfortunately no! This is not at all surprising in the current situation of the world. Women face all sorts of atrocities against them and the majority of these atrocities include violence in them.

Women have always faced society’s harmful mindset and it’s disgusting ways of “teaching” them how to behave. Our society has only known to either beat woman for voicing her opinions or keep her so tied up since the beginning that she never even finds her voice. This really needs to change now. We need feminism to change all this and we need to take actions right at this moment. To quote Emma Watson,

“If not me, who?
If not now, when?”

[Aditi Sahu]

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Do women play a role in upholding patriarchy? Absolutely yes! People of all genders have upheld the ideals of patriarchy for years even though they themselves might be a victim of it. Talking about women, yes women have contributed to patriarchy just like men, maybe not as much, but their contribution is significant enough to feel ashamed of the fact that the gender who you would assume to be more empathetic because they have been victimized by the patriarchy is perpetrating the harmful notions of patriarchy themselves.

We live in a society that thrives on making women’s life miserable. Be it men or women, they constantly judge women’s choices and their way of living. It is high time that we all hold ourselves accountable and stop this craziness continuing a system that has only harmed the backbone of our society.

[Aditi Sahu]

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Uplifting someone so that they can be in the same position as the majority is not an indication of fragility in any way. Reservation is the government’s way of uplifting people who have been discriminated against in the past, reservation has nothing to do with a person’s physical or mental strength or their tolerance.

Women, who have faced discrimination in numerous sectors in the past, now get reservation of seats in some places. So to answer the asked question, no reservation of seats and jobs for women does not indicate they are fragile in any way. Reservation just intends to bring everyone on the plain surface to compete equally and give everyone equal opportunities.

[Aditi Sahu]

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Indians have long believed that marriage should be between two people of “equal” social standing. The reasons they give are mostly baseless. The most famous one of which, is the belief that equal social standing in a society would lead to more compatibility and hence the less marital conflicts and adjustments. So this is basically why Indians support marriage within the community.

Indians are against inter-community marriage because according to them it will lead to more issues and misunderstandings. But what they don’t want to accept is the fact that they are just being highly casteist and discriminating in nature.

[Aditi Sahu]

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Why there’s only one day to celebrate women? An important question indeed but a very complex one to answer. While our society has definitely learnt to pretend they care about women’s rights, they are seldom successful in proving it right. They go on making days where they”celebrate” women and their rights or the days where they celebrate “mothers” but they never take the necessary precautions and decisions that would actually make women feel safe and respected and celebrated!

Women always have and they keep on facing the torments of the society, it is way past the time when they should have gotten their rights. Making a day dedicated to “celebrating” women is not gonna do anything. We need to take the necessary steps to make women’s life better. Until the day even a single woman faces crimes against her dignity, no country can claim that they “celebrate” women.

[Aditi Sahu]

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Pandemic has worsened the struggle for working class, and the most affected group of working class would have to be working women. There are many women whose employment depends on the odd jobs offered at rich households, but the pandemic has made it difficult for them to get these types of jobs. Pandemic has mandated for the people to be physically distant and maintain extra precautions to not catch the coronavirus, and this has led to fear among the people. Consequently, a lot of rich households decided to not employ any household workers leading to the women working in household work industry to go unemployed. And sadly, women working in household work industry are not the only ones affected.

Even the women in private sector with jobs have to do their work from home, and while might sound easier to do than in an office, but such is not the case. It becomes very difficult for women to work from home, especially in a society like ours where women doing household chores are given more priority than the ones engaging in job. So all in all, pandemic has really exacerbated the struggle of the working women.

[Aditi Sahu]

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Media plays a huge role in shaping someone’s opinion, especially youth. And if today’s youth is influenced by something the most, it has to be Bollywood movies. Bollywood movies have been known to be very misogynistic and sexist by their very nature. They have been known to glorify toxic relationship traits and objectifying women’s bodies countless number of times. They have either presented women as someone to be worshipped or someone to be constantly ridiculed and berated, they are rarely presented as normal human beings. Women’s narratives are taken away from them are just used for the propoganda purposes of big media houses.

The contemporary actress Anushka Sharma was recently noted saying,

“It was liberating for me to stand up and do this for myself. I was done seeing myself as an accessory and I vowed that as a producer I would not allow any woman to be portrayed regressively. So, my film choices and then my productions are a testimony to the fact that I’m committed towards sparking a conversation in society about equality, self-respect and empowerment.”

As things are changing in the society, so is the portrayal of women in movies. There have been numerous movies in the present day where women are portrayed respectfully and presented as characters with depth and not just two-dimensional supporters.

So obviously, things have changed both in real as well as reel life. But we still need to work on the betterment of how we treat women, be it in the society or in the movies, a change needs to be made towards the better!

[Aditi Sahu]

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Self-love is absolute love for oneself, it doesn’t necessarily mean vanity or pride but it means the room to allow yourself to have utmost love and respect for yourself regardless of how you might act sometimes. In today’s world, people are bound to make mistakes and be wrong sometimes, but that doesn’t mean that they should spend their whole time feeling guilty for their actions. Of course, loving oneself for who they are does not in any way mean that we shouldn’t try to better ourselves. We are human beings, we are bound to make mistakes and we are supposed to learn from them, what shouldn’t stop though is our ability to recognise that our day-to-day actions do not fully make us, we are a lot more deep down, we deserve love no matter what. And that is what self-love is.

Today’s youth, especially teenagers, have grown in a toxic environment which has led them to either hate themselves or despise themselves for they are, but that is not the way to do. Self-love doesn’t mean long bubble baths or spa sessions, it means the confidence in yourself that you are the best version of yourself right now, and you have the ability to do even better; it’s the self-confidence that makes you believe that you can do anything and everything but that you still need breaks sometimes; and it’s completely okay to take a break when you need it. So yes, self-love is very necessary for us.

[Aditi Sahu]

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Music has the power to influence the youth. And to see today’s music industry thriving on its sexist lyrics is just saddening, and Indian music industry probably stands on the top of it.

Sexism in music industry is not a new thing, you can listen to any old Bollywood song, and you’ll find how problematic a lot of lyrics are. So many lyrics are either objectifying women or making a joke out of the importance of consent. This is only led the youth to believe in the wrong and harmful notions of how women should be treated. Often consent is overlooked and over-possessiveness is romanticized, all because that is what our youth has learnt from all the media they are exposed to, be it the movies or the music.

This is very harmful for our society and sexism in popular media needs to addressed. These issues are often ignored but it is more important now than ever before to arrive to a solution to eradicate misogyny and sexism in the Indian music industry.

[Aditi Sahu]

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Absolutely yes! Beauty products are the “beauty” industry’s way of saying that being pretty is a necessity. It’s the society’s way of telling an individual that they have to fit a certain definition of beauty to be treated with respect and dignity. Beauty products make individuals feel bad about the way they actually look and lead to the decrease in their self-esteem and self-confidence.

Our society has always put unrealistic expectations on people to look a certain way; it has constantly set some goals for people to fit a criteria that is harmfully very discriminatory in nature. Society’s expectations have given the beauty industry reasons to thrive in making beauty products that promote such harmful beauty standards.

So yes, by their very, beauty products are in some way a source of discrimination.

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