Big hero size zero – Anusha Hariharan , Sowmya Rajendran

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Big hero. Size zero. The perfect male-female bodies – says who ? Aren’t sex and gender the same thing ? Either male or female, right? Of course men and women are equal – but who calls the shots at home? Who makes the ‘rules’ we are supposed to follow? Does what  you wear ‘invite trouble’? Do women need to be ‘controlled for their own good’? Why is being different from majority such a problem.

As gender issues hit the news hotspots more and more, there are questions and confusions, and the answers are covered by a smog of stereotype and convention. So how do teens sense of all this?