Society’s double standards
KARACHI:
This is with reference to Riffat Hassan’s “Modesty not segregation” (July 16). For men in our country, the length of a woman’s dress seems to be a national obsession. Commanding women to cover themselves from head to toe, the men in our society use religion as a powerful tool to cloak their misogyny. Our society has wrongly put the onus of honour in a family with the females of the family. Men can get away with anything, but if a woman so much as looks at a man she isn’t related to, she shames the family. I wonder when our society’s hypocrisy and double standards will end.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 17th, 2010.
This is with reference to Riffat Hassan’s “Modesty not segregation” (July 16). For men in our country, the length of a woman’s dress seems to be a national obsession. Commanding women to cover themselves from head to toe, the men in our society use religion as a powerful tool to cloak their misogyny. Our society has wrongly put the onus of honour in a family with the females of the family. Men can get away with anything, but if a woman so much as looks at a man she isn’t related to, she shames the family. I wonder when our society’s hypocrisy and double standards will end.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 17th, 2010.