{"id":4157,"date":"2022-05-07T16:06:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-07T10:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/?p=4157"},"modified":"2022-06-07T16:28:11","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T10:58:11","slug":"patriarchys-spell-by-khushi-mehta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/patriarchys-spell-by-khushi-mehta\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Patriarchy’s Spell’ by Khushi Mehta"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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No one questioned when she picked up the car<\/p>\n

But he was not given the choice to pick a Barbie with a star<\/p>\n

She was questioned when she went out in the dark of the night<\/p>\n

But there was silence when he threw acid in the broad daylight<\/p>\n

When she cried, it was that time of the month<\/p>\n

But his cry was said to be her brunt<\/p>\n

They said her uterus was a part of her body<\/p>\n

But it was weighed on the beam balance that’s become foggy<\/p>\n

She blames him, He blames her<\/p>\n

They never account each other<\/p>\n

His choice is duty, her choice is rebel<\/p>\n

They have become bound to the systems wicked spell<\/p>\n

They assumed the foetus wants to live<\/p>\n

They assumed it’s black and white and not various shades of grey<\/p>\n

They assumed Ravan is the villain<\/p>\n

They assumed women would support women<\/p>\n

But after all these presumptions do you realize<\/p>\n

That this poem is also based on assumptions<\/p>\n

It’s not always her and him, there is also they.<\/p>\n

She may have a she as her bae<\/p>\n

It’s not always her uterus, it’s theirs too<\/p>\n

Heroes and villains are deviated from the anti parallel virtue.<\/p>\n

My happily ever after would be my found family<\/p>\n

Theirs would be being happy financially<\/p>\n

When will we understand the difference between reasoning and justification<\/p>\n

You can ask why, but don’t expect me to justify<\/p>\n

When we want to see each other come out of the shell<\/p>\n

That’s when we’ll break the spell<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No one questioned when she picked up the car But he was not given the choice to pick a Barbie with a star She was questioned when she went out in the dark of the night But there was silence when he threw acid in the broad daylight When she cried, it was that time…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":4158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[481,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asap-conversations-during-covid-19","category-feminist-and-chill"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Patriarchys-Spell-by-Khushi-Mehta.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3O7nG-153","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4159,"href":"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4157\/revisions\/4159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}