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Interesting ! And sad
Fat-shaming – the act of criticising or drawing attention to someone’s weight, body type or eating habits – is pretty much a universal problem.
In India, however, it’s part of our everyday vocabulary. Add an ounce of no-boundaries, a teaspoon of respect-your-elders-no-matter-what indoctrination, and a tablespoon (or a hundred) of good ol’ patriarchy, and you have a recipe that’s especially hard to digest for women.
But while the bodies of most Indian women are up for public scrutiny and unwanted commentary, it’s the women who are “ready” to, are about to, or have just gotten married who experience the nastiest version of this bullying. This fits right into the culture of a country that has no place for its single women, and where million-member-strong family units often conspire to get their “daughters” married off at a “suitable” age.
A recent Instagram post by dr_cuterus, who advocates sexual health, has brought this grouse shared by many Indian women back in the spotlight. In her post, Tanaya Narendra/Dr Cuterus talked not just about the pressure she had to lose weight before her wedding but also how the salespeople at one of India's biggest designer's stores "looked at me up and down and asked, ‘oh *you* are getting married?’ as if I’m inherently unmarriageable."
Narendra is hardly alone in the blatant and disgusting body shaming that scores of Indian women go through – be it being looked at critically while walking into a store, having relatives tell them they've gotten too "healthy" (lol for the irony) and suggesting remedies, being demeaned while out shopping or eating, or being "rejected" by matchmakers or potential husbands in arranged marriage set-ups because of their body size.
Source- Instagram.