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Labeling someone as per their ' character ', that's the favorite topic of most people. It gives them a different level of kick to judge others and pass their opinion based on their own narrow mind-frame. They do not consider any other variables other than their own biases. They have certain labels, boxes and categories, and every person is typecasted as per their definition of 'character', especially women.  Here are some samples.  Characterless:  This is a gender specific characterisation - used for defining a woman with evidently 'loose' moral. If she drinks, smokes, parties, comes back home late and has friends who are boys who frequent her home, she is definitely characterless. She, unlike a man, cannot have an independent life and the freedom to live on her own terms. She is the epitome of 'loose woman'. The Other Woman:  Strangely, no one says the other man. It is always that evil other woman who is the home-breaker, who somehow...