invisible-patriarchy
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If you are born a woman in South Asia, you are born into a cage that looks like home. It’s painted in bright colours, culture, tradition, family honour, but the bars are still bars. And if you dare to rattle them, even gently, they call you ungrateful. They call you shameless. The first time I
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You don’t need a man to be abusive for patriarchy to thrive in your relationship. Sometimes, it shows up in soft ways; when you swallow your needs, when you shrink your ambition, when you romanticise pain. This is how patriarchy survives: not just in politics and policies, but in your pillow talk, in your waiting,