Clash of genders in same civilisation?

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Re: Clash of genders in same civilisation?

@Jolie

That’s an amusing paradox. Calling woman a courtesan in the times where brothels were considered so called academy of tehzeeb was the worst insult you hurl at here, even today, the attitude is still alive today.

Tawaif in those days was basically a prostitute who had to act like a lady in front of clients belonging to royal and aristocratic class just to please their egos. No respectability, cultural or otherwise is associated with this term or was ever associated. It’s an extremely lewd and misogynistic term, especially in the context it is used today. Those who liberally throw around this word are simply pathetic.

I neither support use of tawaif for working ladies nor for those who attend political gathering. My point was word ‘Mujra’ got negative connotations with the passage of time.