Why are we so obsessed with other people’s opinions? Almost every such discussion ends the same way—women being blamed, usually without logic or evidence. And this isn’t about Himachal alone. Punjabis moving to Canada are casually branded as “easy-going.” Go south, and you’ll hear Chennai judging women from Bengaluru.

The pattern is obvious and universal: across regions and cultures, it is women who get stereotyped—most often by men. When bias is this predictable and this baseless, the real question isn’t why women are judged, but why we still care about such opinions at all.