Recently, Uttarakhand CM, Tirath Rawat, commented that women who wear ripped jeans are not propagating the right kind of values. 

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Because of course, the entire repository of moral values lies in women’s closets. And not just closets! Essentially, everything a woman does is an attack on a value system that failed to value women in the first place. 

Here’s an example of all the things that women do, that are apparently “attacking” India’s value system: 

1. Cutting their hair short. 

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2. Wearing red lipstick

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3. Getting tattoos. 

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4. Thinking motherhood is a choice, not an obligation. 

5. Not getting married the second they turn 18

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6. Buying any product that advocates safe sex. 

7. Being outside of the house late at night.  

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8. Not wearing sindoor, mangalsutra, and/or other “markers” that signify a woman is married. 

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9. Having an alcoholic drink. God forbid if it’s whiskey. 

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10. Playing sports. 

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11. Owning their sexual desires. 

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12. Cracking jokes. 

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13. Not treating menstruation as a taboo subject. 

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14. Having an opinion. 

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15. Wearing ‘masculine’ clothes, like a pant-suit.   

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The list is never-ending but the women, they just don’t give a damn!