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Misogyny in Pakistan is mostly a bipartisan exercise. However, with Khawaja Asif’s new twitter about Firdous Ashiq Awan fasten a Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf and obsequious that she is a “newly acquired dumper,” he finished a Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz take a cake for misogyny. we won’t be astounded if personally he’s gloating along with his weary cronies, who positively make him feel like he’s 007. Except that poisonous masculinity is antipathetic and so 1970s.
As a 15-year professional, we once walked into an all-male assembly where many wanted to know what we prepare best. The systematic bid that is finished to frame any emergence of energy from women, regardless of how most of it they have, is a lauded masculine competition here. The aloft women go, a some-more group seem to have accede to conflict them. Remind them that they go indoors, safely divided from open space since that is a masculine territory.
Awan and Shireen Mazari, who Asif called a “tractor trolley,” are not a exception, though a norm. He many years ago also called a lady MPA who limped slightly, a “penguin.” we wrote opposite it then. He’s finished it again, and here is my second square that usually proves that contrition is not a viable arms opposite a patriarchy — maybe usually assault is.
Someone like Asif will usually honour people who can harm him. Sadly, when women parliamentarians, a 21 per cent of a whole lot, have fought approach too many Asifs to be where they are. In a end, a fun is on him — and his measureless masculine privilege, his category privilege, a comfort that comes from being partial of a infancy in a nation that usually salutes majoritarianism.
Not usually is sexism adopted as a go-to plan opposite celebration lines, by both group and women, it is mostly a tellurian phenomenon. We saw Hillary Clinton face a rage in final year’s US elections. Some envision that is what cost her a presidency — she didn’t reject feminism, didn’t make her feminism savoury enough, excusable enough, as if she were creation crème brûlée and not rooting to be during a helm of a world’s biggest powerhouse.
Therefore, women in power, it isn’t surprising, adjust to a anti-woman enlightenment by rejecting feminism. They contend they aren’t like a men-haters and a bra-burners. They are only there to make a genuine disproportion to all people. They contend they are pro-men. Blessed be a fruit. They say, acknowledging they are in politics, that during initial they are good homemakers. Maryam Nawaz is somewhat stung by this phenomenon.
But a fact stays that Maryam Nawazs are still shamed, still ridiculed and still undermined. The explanation is still going to be how they carried themselves, what they wore, how doe-eyed they looked and eventually how unworthy.
You’ll never see group judged by such high standards of scrutiny. They could uncover adult to a press discussion with a controversial smear on their fit and it’ll go unnoticed, might even get a bravo. After all brag is maleness.
Asif’s comments opposite women politicians are assault itself. Unjustified violence, directed to put women with energy in their place, to de-legitimise them, to remind them of their worth, to upset them, to clap them, to disparage them publicly and to ridicule. Yet, nothing of it is going to change a fact that group like him are on their approach out. The biggest feat for these women, who get scapegoated and shamed, is that they are paving ways for younger ones who will enter politics with a speed of disruptive technology. They are charting a trail in time that thankfully leads to one direction.
One day he’ll arise adult and he’ll realize it’s 2017. Nothing sadder than an aged male whose James Bond anticipation smells clever coffee.
Published in The Express Tribune, Jun 18th, 2017.
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