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The Polite Monster
poetry Skylar Sanders poetry Skylar Sanders

The Polite Monster

A poem by Aanchal Vachhani that explores how young girls are shaped, restrained, and molded into docile figures of "perfection"—how the ideals of politeness, beauty, and obedience are instilled so deeply that they manifest as an internalized force, a specter that haunts our every movement.

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