A Pakistani Girl

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Re: A Pakistani Girl

@bella88

whoever thinks this is an exaggeration lives in la-la land. Being a woman in a desi/pakistani community is the biggest curse. I have seen it as well. Its typical to not even congratulate the mother when a girl is born! instead people say ‘agli bar beta hoga inshalla’ instead of saying congrats! this is how ****ed up our society is. the story in the blog is actually alot better than what millions of girls go through everyday in pakistan.
starting from birth, they are typically unwanted. many are left in orphanage as poor parents cannot afford a girl, they only keep reproducing in hopes of having a boy. if she’s lucky enough to be kept by her parents, she is given the leftover food after her brothers and father eat. if she’s raped, she’s killed her own family because the dishonor is too great, if she is caught dating/running away with a guy, she is shot in the head by her brothers as their ghairat doesn’t allow her to live any more. if she rejects a guy, her face is burned off by acid because a man cannot handle rejection well.
as far as middle class and upper class, even those girls have to live in such double standards. the brothers have way more freedom than the girls. pakistani girls have FAR more restrictions than the boys. then once the girls get married, they are expected to serve their inlaws and put up with them regardless of how they treat them. She must obey his parents, serve them, take care of them. Her own parents are no longer as important! nothing worse than being born in a traditional Pakistani home as a female.

how many years you have actually lived in Pakistan?
highly generalized and unethical statement you have made here by saying being a woman in desi/pakistani community is the biggest curse.