People who moral-police women for wearing shorts outside hostel premises still post Happy Women’s Day and laugh when other men degrade women. The same society then locks girls inside hostels after 10 PM.
Respect for women here is just a one-day festival. 🎭
A couple in India has ten daughters and keeps trying until finally the eleventh child is a son. That’s how much daughters are valued. But when parents are old, sick, and need round-the-clock care, suddenly daughters are “naturally more nurturing.”
Daughters are expendable when lineage is at stake, but indispensable when labor is required. Unwanted at birth. Essential at burnout.
Sons are for inheritance, names, and social applause. Daughters are for bathing frail bodies, managing medications, absorbing guilt, and being told it’s their duty.
It’s a neat arrangement. Girls are liabilities until they become free caregivers. Then they’re priceless. Rejected for legacy. Recruited for labour.
Denied value when they ask for love, education, or inheritance, but summoned without question when it’s time to serve.
And Indian society calls this tradition. Hypocrisy.
Bought my first pair of proper Skechers this year so I can walk atleast 1 million steps this year.
That's 1 month of college ka allowance right there🤧🥀
Day 3 in, lemme see how well it goes-
(Will I end the challenge or my shoes will end or will I end?
Stay tuned to find out)
As we walk on these shores,
Sharing worries, troubles, chores.
Not knowing what life will
throw right back;but it will.
Wading in the deep sea,
Hands bound, but minds free-
I may not have fully loved
The boy, for all he deserved
For I gave myself to the man,
I know,he will become
Oh sweet paragon of foresight
Don't you dare overthink
How they will laugh as you fall
When you are yet to rise
To your golden throne
I shouldn't be overthinking at 1 am but here we are...