women

  • Post-pandemic, the social media world saw a trend of trad wife influencers getting popular. Suddenly, we started seeing too many trad wives on screen. Trad wives stand for traditional wives. These influencers are claiming that they are embracing their true gender roles and choosing to be stay-at-home wives and moms. These influencers tend to portray

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  • Male Fantasies and Patriarchal Social Audit on Women’s Choices

    It was in Class XI that I learned my fully clad body could be deemed as provocative and vulgar by those around me. A teacher asked us girls to wear ‘dupatta’ or shawl moving forth because the boys in my grade are somehow distracted by our bodies. I, an innocent 16-year-old, was suddenly made conscious

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  • Indian women and Kiran Rao’s ‘Laapataa Ladies’

    Growing up, I have seen many women around me who had long forgotten who they were other than for their identities as mothers and wives. They no longer knew what their desires were or what made them happy. All my childhood, I have genuinely wondered why women around me behaved as if they were inferior

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