Re: The hypocrisy of liberals
I couldn’t agree more to you. My parents weren’t getting along with eachother and tried to divorce several times. However, the people in family kept shoving them back together. I would say more harm was done to my mother who could have no more of my father’s family. People cursed my mother for “leaving her husband’s home”. “Aurat ka kam hai bardasht krna”. Eventually my mother became a patient of depression and then schizophrenia. No one cares obviously, people are there to laugh at her and be happy of what a mess has become of her. The children for which she had to sacrifice her freedom, as others told her, are now enjoying their lives. Father has a second wife to take care of him. Who has suffered? who is to take responsibility of that? Pakistani people are really blind and ignorant. Our attitude towards women is just disgusting. Offcourse I have seen many many women with good and caring husbands, bashing my mother for not doing their so called “sabr”.
Divorce is just not acceptable. First off women are married without making them financially stable, then they have to suffer at the hands of susral or their husband, they have to forego their career, if any, they have to do “sabr”, its their duty, as enjoined by our society’s version of "Islam. They have to have kids and then have “bardasht” for the sake of kids. It is brutal and whats even more brutal is Pakistani people turning a blind eye to these atrocities committed in our society. People have ahard time accepting that West is so much better than us in providing safety, security and freedom to their citizens in general. West is so much better than us in most ways and people have a hard time accepting that. Most people who think women are doing fine in pakistan have never really been through the torture. They just can’t look beyond their own lives and experiences.