Re: A Pakistani Girl
Yes you can say that because you are not a women, you have no idea about
How traumatic it is for a girl/women to travel in public transport where they are being groped, pinched and molested even if the buses/wagons are segregated
How helpless she is when she has to work from dawn till dusk in the farms or other houses just to come home to get her money snatched by some male relative for his nasha and then being beaten for not cooking food on time
How frightened she is if she is travelling alone after dusk under scrutiny of people looking at her with hungry eyes and God forbid if some car drops her home late in the evening which becomes a tele tale of the whole neighborhood
How much attentive she has to be shopping in a bazaar (And I am not talking about the high end malls but the regular weekly bazaars/markets) where men are just looking for a chance to touch her even if she’s fully covered in a chadar/burka
How confused she is when only she’s being told to bring water for her brother or make dinner or clear the table or do the dishes despite the fact that she and her brother went through the same ordeal during the day
How frustrating it is when she is being asked for her marriage/family plans during job interviews
Or when she’s being told again and again for things she can’t do just because she’s a girl/women
It’s a continuous struggle being a girl in Pakistan where you are living under a fear of some thing happening that will ruin the izzat of your family, where you are always watchful of your surroundings, where you hear reports of 6 months old being raped by their own fathers or uncles or grand fathers.
And the list goes on.
This dear sir which you called **drama **is the normal life of a woman, but you will never understand that because being a guy you have never faced these issues or may be because you have sheltered the woman of your family very well so you really don’t care what happens with others and if something happens to other women you just say that she saw it coming because why did she even get out of her home on the first place in the name of Feminism
In management classes we had been taught that to identify the problem solves 50% of the problem it self so unless and until we recognize that this is a valid issue nothing can help this cause