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Sexism in Reel Life

August 19, 2020August 19, 2020 Shriya Tandon 0 Comments Aamir Khan, Actors, ageism, Akshay Kumar, Anil Kapoor, Anushka Sharma, Bollywood, Chhapaak, Cinema, consent, Culture, Deepika Padukone, directors, female, feminine, film, gender, heterogeneity, Indian film industry, jokes, Kalki Koechlin, Kareena Kapoor, Lara Dutta, LGBTQ+, Lust Stories, masculine, mediocre physiques, normatively beautiful, patriarchy, personality, Priyanka Chopra, producers, Raazi, rape, Reel Life, Salman Khan, Sexism, sexist, size zero, stalker, stereotypes, stereotyping, Stree, Thappad, Toilet: Ek Prem Katha, toxic ideas, typecasting, vulnerability

For far too long, the Indian Film industry has gotten away with its sexist maneuvers – something that is completely in contrast with the modern idea of gender identity and equality. This article highlights exactly that, and more.

Society

Stereotyping Clothing: Defining Social, Intellectual Status and Modernity

June 10, 2020June 10, 2020 Arushi Kapoor 4 Comments attire, attires, backward, British, British government, city person, clothes, colonial, colonial powers, conservative, elite, equality, fashion, flip flops, generalisations, intellectual, jeans, judgements, Lala Deen Dayal, Lifestyle, middle class, modern, modern girl, modernity, privileged status, security, short dress, social mobility, social practice, social status, Society, stereotypes, stereotyping, traditional, trend, upper class, village person, vogue, western world

“Underlying the present quest for form and pattern is the basic assumption that dress is a systematic means of transmission of information about the wearer.”
M.L Damhorst rightly articulated that a person’s dressing speaks about his or her personality. Or does it really? Lets’ trace this stereotyping history till contemporary “modern” world.