Gender issues in Pakistan… TYPICAL! I could go on endlessly
about the suffering and distress… but I won’t, it makes me nauseous! Truly.
Often have I heard teary stories, seen dramatic documentaries
and morbidly theatrical screen depictions addressing what now appears to be
something we live with. Many moan, while others try to brilliantly illuminate
the distorted messages about gender that constrict and sometimes destroy the
lives of many across the nation, which includes men too!
Check out this documentary showing the spectrum of
possibilities that these funny, candid, searching young women, Risham and Ghazal, navigate. Yes… this
documentary is about women and their roles in the society. Oh the pity - all they
have to go through. It would amuse me to know more about the whole experience of being a woman, on the streets and
interviewing people who astoundingly, completely lack even remote signs of finesse
or even slight scruples. I must say, for a change I’d like to be a woman to
know what its like!
Dear men, be alarmed! The candour with which the subjects of the documentary speak – in this case, students, activists and media personale discussing their frustrations with gender roles and stereotypes, is nearly threatening. If only we weren't the cliché’s we appear to be!
Dear men, be alarmed! The candour with which the subjects of the documentary speak – in this case, students, activists and media personale discussing their frustrations with gender roles and stereotypes, is nearly threatening. If only we weren't the cliché’s we appear to be!
