I was chided and rebuked by my closest friends for promoting the ‘vulgarity of Aurat March’ when I wrote in support of Aurat March on my social media account.
Lately, I wrote on my social media account in support of Aurat March. Being a man, it’s not easy to be a feminist and advocate of rights of women, in a suffocating patriarchal society like ours. I was chided and rebuked by my closest friends for promoting the vulgarity of Aurat March. I have personally witnessed men torture and kill women with immunity and get away with their crimes. What could be the worst form of deeply misogyny and patriarchal example than a father in Mianwali was arrested for killing his week-old daughter by shooting her five times because he wanted his firstborn to be a son. In a society where a son is believed to offer better financial security to parents than daughters, and girls and women face prevalent violence, it is high time to end an old world of patriarchy and invent a new world of gender equality.
Nasir Soomro
Karachi Sindh
