This Twitter Thread On Dark Realities That Women Have To Face In Desi Marriages Is Horrifying

Marriages in India are anything but 'a union of two equals', especially when husbands consider themselves far superior than their wives. It exhibits nothing but misogyny, patriarchy, and misconstrued gender roles.From personal choices to 'gifts' to what to wear and what to eat, the society is always ready to pounce at women, and this thread on Twitter proves it true.

Twitter thread

A lawyer on Twitter (@meghamehta8488) has called on society critiquing ‘modern’ Indian women wanting to live away from in-laws. In a detailed thread, she has brought out how the saas-bahu drama is a real thing, especially in the context of Indian households where marriage becomes ‘a loss-making enterprise for women.’

The superficial beauty standards, the widow-bane syndrome, and the apparent lewd male family members have been known to come out of fiction to shadow a woman’s life in the context of desi marriages.

Taunts over dowry, physical appearance?

If not yours, perhaps somebody else’s around you. Chilling stories are out there; all one needs to do is strip the garb of delusion.

'Loss making' enterprise for women

It’s easier to call out the world before rectifying what’s flawed from within. We all have an idea of a ‘perfect family’ and ‘happily ever after’ so deeply ingrained in our system that we readily cast off even the slightest bit of roadblock to stick to that idea. Why? Because that’s what sustains us; our idea of the ‘perfect family.’

Scores of women relate to the post

And, so many women have related to this thread on Twitter that it’s chilling and horrifying, all at once.

The sad truth: Husbands are deified as super-humans while women are reduced to mere puppets in the hands of their male counterparts even as the ironic world joins hands to pray to a woman Goddess. Irony just died a thousands deaths.

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