We need to ensure legal consequences for him. Women have the inalienable human right to feel safe anywhere, anytime, regardless of anything.
Prominent Gen Z youth leader, Phd scholar and among the key hunger strikers of the recent anti exam paper leak movement, Neha Bora rightly Calls Out Patriarchy and Brahmanwad !
On INVESTIGATION:
Post-mortem reportedly reveals she was tortured with multiple objects before her death, multiple injuries across her body, including severe injuries to her private parts.
We need to demand systemic changes in this country and make sure women feel safe anywhere, anytime regardless of anything.
Misogyny is unfortunately not only a right wing only thing.
Screenshot had to be tempered with to evade c*nsorship.
Neha Bora delivered a powerful speech at Jantar Mantar
Posting it again seperately to put enough light into the issue.
We need to need to make sure, we build enough pressure and that justice is served to the victims.
We have photo and video evidence for that now. We need to make sure this criminals in khaki don't get to get away with the law.
Yogita Thakre, a seven-year-old girl whose dead body was found in a car parked on the premises of former Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari's residence here in May 2009
For decades, the medical establishment has used the term “tokophobia” to classify an intense fear of pregnancy and childbirth as a psychological disorder. By definition, a phobia is an irrational fear.
However, analyzing the brutal biological realities of childbirth reveals that framing a woman's self-preservation instinct as a psychiatric pathology is not science—it is medical misogyny and institutional gaslighting.
Here is how the myth of "tokophobia" pathologizes normal human logic and tries to shields as well gaslights the reality of pregnancy and childbirth.
A phobia implies that the danger is imagined or heavily exaggerated. Yet, the baseline biological reality of childbirth involves extreme physical disruption and trauma, even under flawless medical conditions:
Flesh Tearing: Vaginal tearing occurs in the vast majority of first-time births. Fearing the literal ripping of one's own muscles and tissue is a universal human survival instinct.
Major Abdominal Surgery: A Cesarean section requires slicing through skin, fat, fascia, and muscle while the patient is awake. Fearing major surgery and its grueling recovery is entirely logical.
Life-Threatening Risks: Major complications like postpartum hemorrhage (severe bleeding) remain leading causes of maternal mortality worldwide. An aversion to an event carrying a risk of fatal bleeding is a basic evolutionary defense mechanism.
Societal and medical narratives heavily romanticize childbirth. They push the pseudoscience that because birth is "natural," women should instinctively endure it without fear or resistance.
No other medical event involving comparable levels of agony and bodily destruction is expected to be accepted willingly. When a human being objects to undergoing a grueling, painful process that permanently alters their internal organs and skeletal structure, labeling that objection as "anxiety" or a "phobia" is a direct tool of control.
By turning an objective physical reality into an individual mental illness, the medical system effectively gaslights women.
Dismissing Pain: Historically, women’s pain has been minimized by healthcare providers. The "tokophobia" label allows medical staff to dismiss a woman's legitimate concerns as a psychological defect rather than addressing her right to absolute pain management.
Shielding Obstetric Violence: It frames a woman’s fear as an internal psychological flaw, completely ignoring the widespread reality of obstetric violence, such as a lack of informed consent, forced interventions, and loss of bodily autonomy in hospital delivery rooms.
Conclusion:
From "Phobia" to Informed Risk Aversion
To dismantle this medical myth, the language surrounding reproduction must change. Women who express dread over childbirth (even if the fear is "extreme"), are not suffering from a psychological delusion; they are making a calculated, logical decision to protect their own bodies from trauma and harm.
True progress requires stripping away the romanticised propaganda of motherhood, abandoning pseudoscientific psychological labels, and recognizing that bodily autonomy includes the absolute right to refuse severe physical trauma. Fearing pregnancy and childbirth, even "extreme" fear is not "tokophobia", its a legitimate, rational fear.
(AI used to structure it, but thoughts, ideas and prompts are my own.)