Checklist of discourse of patriarchal domination and women's oppression, euphemistically called "society"
1) "akeli aurat". walking, living, breathing - abnormal, unimaginable, criminalized, unnatural
2) "kali aurat" - too ugly to please men, defected object for marriage market https://twitter.com/ranaslander/status/1280806100607139841
3) "dulhan khwabs" - sole purpose in life to become wife and mother, everything else is selfish.
4) "settle hojana" - get the patriarchal possibility of even existing in society, be a dependent preferably without financial independence, to be disposed off at man's will
5) "sharif sughar great cook aur sober type" - not sexually empowered, doesnt dress up, preferably with limited friends and silent-trained. I can write a chapter on silence-training of women. Unnecessarily apologetic and self-negation = wah wah what a character.
6) sharam-trained. Corollary of silence-trained. Periods are sharam. Boobs are sharam. Just owning your body is haram, behaya. Vagina is literally called "sharam-gah" (friend's suggestion: mastgah). No word for rape, coz it doesnt exist.
7) "yaar meray thighs kitne motay hain" syndrome. Literally in your dna: you are programmed by capitalist patriarchy to reduce yourself to flesh. Because you are treated, traded, made into flesh. Anorexia, bulimia, self-hating, never ever like yourself. Aur love? see 8, 9
8)"Mar mitna complex" - no sufi training needed for women coz we born into self-annihilation. To survive - as a physical being - is a miracle. To exult in self-love - near impossible. And a sign of being awful, witch, bitch, slut, career-type etc. Only love is patriarchal love
9) All ideas of romance are patriarchal. Men are agents, women mere bodies to be acted upon. Men propose, men initiate, men decide. Wait for rishta. Dream of hero. Never believe you are the hero. That love is surrender and mar mitna, not equal respect and equal humanity.
In sum, a woman's existence is based on her non-existence
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