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How our little girls went astray?



Every time I attend a social gathering, I am exposed to the fluke parameters set by society (which itself is fluke, and is nothing), for little girls of beauty and raising them like princess.
Every time I switch on TV and see advertisements, I am exposed to the illusionary world created for women. How the advertisements of looking pretty has eroded and murdered real substance of women.
Why little girls have to be as cute as Cinderella, or as white as snow white? Why is it that all the way she has to appear as princess because society loves and adores princess?
When these little girls grow up the yardstick of appearing pleasing gets uglier..Why a woman has to be always dressed nicely and with lots of mannerism? Why world loves dolls?
Thanks to venomous advertising industry for creating superficial and substandard images of womanhood. If advertisers are to be believed a woman has no other business except to worry about her hair, pimples, skin tone, expensive dresses that it. Her existence is made synonymous with beauty.
One fair and lovely ad where a father persuades daughter to get marry. However till she applies fair and lovely recommended by bollywood actor, she couldn’t take decision on how and when to get married.
Do we really require fairness creams to look confident and be decisive?
We tend to treat our little girls as delicate darlings. We don’t let them play with mud…gandi ho jayegi.
We don’t let them go out in sun…kaali ho jayegi..
By doing all this aren’t we making them fragile and vulnerable?
We make them creatures of mercy. We give them cosmetic treatment and make them dolls forever. Without realizing that outside world only plays with dolls, it doesn’t give them respect.
Why do we nurture our little girls to do something, just because they are girls? Why do we forbid them from doing something just because they are girls?
Why do we want little girls to grow up in the shape of hour glass? Why can’t we adore and love them in their natural shape and size?
Why we treat them as Cinderella that has no resembles with real life, its struggles? Why we make them grow up in make believe world of princess?
I get really disappointed to see beauty parlours opening in every village and small towns. These are the areas where there is no proper education, nutrition and sanitation available.
This only shows our misplaced priorities on what is necessary for little girls. Are not we investing on wrong things at the wrong age?
How paradoxical it sounds when young girls stay in beauty parlour for two hours and spend thousands of bucks to get natural look. Just because their boyfriend told them they love them in natural looks.
Why industry of Barbie dolls rising with stupendous pace?
This is the reason why I admire song Pataka Guddi from Highway more than Baby Doll from Ragini MMS2.The former presents raw feminism and adores woman in her raw form. Latter tends to commodify and museumize womanhood.
Why people have this useless and wasteful dream of seeing their little girls get marry like princess?
Why so much money and resources are wasted on marriage? Why hosting grand wedding for daughters most ambitious dream of the parents?
Instead of wasting 50 lakh on show off that disappears soon, why don’t they five her for better things that could give her life more respectful than princess.
 When jokes on women and shopping and make up are cracked it disappoints so much.
Recently Kate Middleton wore a red dress. Within few minutes after her visit to the Blessed Sacrament School in London demand for the same outfit rose in online shops. This shows how much obsessed we have made our daughters about looking pretty.
How long we would let Cinderella, snow white, Barbie dolls eat our little girls?

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