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She doesn\u2019t understand \u2014 it doesn\u2019t matter if a man is scarred or ugly, he will still get a wife. But a woman must do all she can to make herself the ideal wife.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/bit.ly\/f8ewHP'>The ugly side of progress<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &ldquo;bizarre boom of plastic surgery in small-town India.&rdquo; A girl (woman?) brought in for plastic surgery by her mother-in-law: Comments Dr Kalda (plastic surgeon), \u201cThe\u00a0saas\u00a0(mother-in-law)\u00a0examined the girl\u2019s naked body before marriage and brought her to me so she could &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/03\/14\/the-ugly-side-of-progress\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[180],"class_list":["post-1704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-india","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":77,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2017\/01\/11\/first-us-person-to-have-intersex-on-birth\/","url_meta":{"origin":1704,"position":0},"title":"First US person to have &#8216;intersex&#8217; on birth certificate: &#8216;There\u2019s power in knowing who you are&#8217;","author":"aslam","date":"January 11, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/jan\/11\/intersex-rights-gender-sara-kelly-keenan-birth-certificate?CMP=share_btn_tw Growing up, Keenan recalled, her physicians and parents insisted she was \u201c100% girl\u201d, even after she failed to hit puberty and grew much taller than average girls. 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