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Fully agree .. We all know , What a Hipocrate I K is !!
Exposures after Exposures Don’t affect Him OR His followers !!
PM At Any Cost !!
Me , Family , Friends , All Voted PTI In 2013 !!
Now Hate Him !!
Liberals, seculars, feminests, democrats,… are against the rotten system where many enjoy mega-facilities and for such monsters, status quo is life. They would ridicule, oppose and threaten any one, everyone who can stir and challenge their hold.
The problem is actually with the Desi feminists, who degraded other women to prove themselves as feminists. You’ve given a very good definition, but sadly it’s not being followed. A working woman degardes one who is a housewife, and a housewife looks down upon the ones who are working. Sorry to say even the feminists don’t respet choice made by other women. The things you are writing are hardly applicable to so called feminists. And as far as Imran Khan is concerned, Woh to hay he Chawwal!!!
Mahwash, I don’t know how you or this page labeled you as supermom, can you give the dictionary mea ING of this term and how you are eligible to use it. and no I am not a pti follower.
Just a common reader. About the article you wrote about Imran khanz statement and took it from motherhood to gol roti and his Romantic endeavors that was really cool, and shows that how good a biryani connoisseur you might be.
And your argument about the achievements of feminisms in the west, if you re read it yourself, all these achievements are about making women good workers for the corporate world except one that you mention about women right to vote.
About the stigma of breastfeeding in public.. If you think that problem only arise when women have to leave home during their breast feeding time… And then you talked about the 4 year limit, you think a four year kid actually does not need parent as he will be in school from 8 to 2?? Plus maternity leave is for 4 years?? Or u think it’s fine to neglect only 4 years??
Then lastly the world you use for child care.. “rear the kids”… It actually shows what you think of motherhood.. (that’s why the first question i.e. You proclaiming to be a supermom.
Hopefully I won’t get bashing like Imran khan as I m nobody..?
The author has raised some important points with respect to how the new wave of urban educated women place themselves in the larger scheme of things in Pakistan. While it is inspiring to see young women speak out for themselves, they must realize that they are standing on the shoulders of giants like Asma Jahangir, Manto, Kishwar Naheed, and numerous others from the PWA, WAF etc who were almost all of the left and who made it possible for the current generation to enjoy the liberties in society that they do today.
Sadly, the current lot of activists seem to be deeply apolitical and borrowing heavily from the post-modernist strand of elitist campus based social justice campaigners in the west. Patriarchy is hardly the defining characteristic of Pakistani society nor is gender disparity the principal contradiction that needs to be addressed. What then, should the strategy of these young activists be to counter the reactionary views of Imran Khan, which he shares with a vast majority of the people of Pakistan (including women)? It is certainly not to brush off Imran Khan’s ludicrous statement as just another rant of a privileged Aitchisonian brat who refuses to grow up and whose views are just ‘ill-informed’!
In my humble opinion, these feminist activists need to continue the struggle for women rights rather than pursue their vague notions of smashing some imagined patriarchy while sipping some tea. They need to empower the Christian domestic worker who polishes the marble at Bani Gala and the mother of four who toils at a stitching unit for 14 hours a day so her kids dont have to, to stand up to Imran Khan and give a befitting reply. Failing to do so will only leave these activists fuming at the twitter troll, who can very aptly shut them up with the label of ‘air-conditioned activist’.
LOL, Pakistan definitely beats India when it comes to atrocities against women. My sympathies for the ladies fighting for their rights in that country. India isn’t so much better (particularly Northern India) but at least we are not governed by modified forms of Sharia law.
Fully agree .. We all know , What a Hipocrate I K is !!
Exposures after Exposures Don’t affect Him OR His followers !!
PM At Any Cost !!
Me , Family , Friends , All Voted PTI In 2013 !!
Now Hate Him !!
Liberals, seculars, feminests, democrats,… are against the rotten system where many enjoy mega-facilities and for such monsters, status quo is life. They would ridicule, oppose and threaten any one, everyone who can stir and challenge their hold.
The problem is actually with the Desi feminists, who degraded other women to prove themselves as feminists. You’ve given a very good definition, but sadly it’s not being followed. A working woman degardes one who is a housewife, and a housewife looks down upon the ones who are working. Sorry to say even the feminists don’t respet choice made by other women. The things you are writing are hardly applicable to so called feminists. And as far as Imran Khan is concerned, Woh to hay he Chawwal!!!
Very well said!!
Mahwash, I don’t know how you or this page labeled you as supermom, can you give the dictionary mea ING of this term and how you are eligible to use it. and no I am not a pti follower.
Just a common reader. About the article you wrote about Imran khanz statement and took it from motherhood to gol roti and his Romantic endeavors that was really cool, and shows that how good a biryani connoisseur you might be.
And your argument about the achievements of feminisms in the west, if you re read it yourself, all these achievements are about making women good workers for the corporate world except one that you mention about women right to vote.
About the stigma of breastfeeding in public.. If you think that problem only arise when women have to leave home during their breast feeding time… And then you talked about the 4 year limit, you think a four year kid actually does not need parent as he will be in school from 8 to 2?? Plus maternity leave is for 4 years?? Or u think it’s fine to neglect only 4 years??
Then lastly the world you use for child care.. “rear the kids”… It actually shows what you think of motherhood.. (that’s why the first question i.e. You proclaiming to be a supermom.
Hopefully I won’t get bashing like Imran khan as I m nobody..?
The author has raised some important points with respect to how the new wave of urban educated women place themselves in the larger scheme of things in Pakistan. While it is inspiring to see young women speak out for themselves, they must realize that they are standing on the shoulders of giants like Asma Jahangir, Manto, Kishwar Naheed, and numerous others from the PWA, WAF etc who were almost all of the left and who made it possible for the current generation to enjoy the liberties in society that they do today.
Sadly, the current lot of activists seem to be deeply apolitical and borrowing heavily from the post-modernist strand of elitist campus based social justice campaigners in the west. Patriarchy is hardly the defining characteristic of Pakistani society nor is gender disparity the principal contradiction that needs to be addressed. What then, should the strategy of these young activists be to counter the reactionary views of Imran Khan, which he shares with a vast majority of the people of Pakistan (including women)? It is certainly not to brush off Imran Khan’s ludicrous statement as just another rant of a privileged Aitchisonian brat who refuses to grow up and whose views are just ‘ill-informed’!
In my humble opinion, these feminist activists need to continue the struggle for women rights rather than pursue their vague notions of smashing some imagined patriarchy while sipping some tea. They need to empower the Christian domestic worker who polishes the marble at Bani Gala and the mother of four who toils at a stitching unit for 14 hours a day so her kids dont have to, to stand up to Imran Khan and give a befitting reply. Failing to do so will only leave these activists fuming at the twitter troll, who can very aptly shut them up with the label of ‘air-conditioned activist’.
He is a taliban without beard.
LOL, Pakistan definitely beats India when it comes to atrocities against women. My sympathies for the ladies fighting for their rights in that country. India isn’t so much better (particularly Northern India) but at least we are not governed by modified forms of Sharia law.
Keep on with the good fight.