Re: What is an “average Pakistani girl”?
Actually I have…Asked me 5-6 years ago and I would have completely agreed with the “oppressed/jailed Pakistani girl” as I have family members where the girls never left the house without their parents, they never socialized with anyone outside of family (they weren’t allowed to visit friends nor did friends visit them), they spent their days watching star plus dramas or movies, doing everything for their brothers (while the brothers got to play outside). they had no say in who they wanted to marry etc and of course the typical in-law/marriage crap after getting married. and for the most part they were okay wiht it (To me, this was the “average Pakistani girl in Pakistan”, this was how my parents wanted to raise me, how they wanted me to be, and I did not agree with it)
WheN I visited late last year things were drastically different and not in a bad way either. The younger girls who have since grown up are going to school, they do have ambitions and goals that they’re working towards, they’re doing well in school, some of them work/have internships…nobody looks down on them. they stil have certain restrictions, its not like they’re out partying or meeting up wtih friends all teh time, but considering hwo things were just a few years prior, its still better.