“I disagree with the feminist movement that has degraded the role of a mother,” said Imran Khan.
Wait... what?!That was my initial reaction when Imran’s words flashed on the news website. I blinked in confusion and re-read the words, thinking I may enjoy misinterpret them due to tiredness or lack of sleep. But no. There it was, and as clear as rain – feminism apparently “degraded” motherhood.
https://twitter.com/bilalfqi/status/332275712
Like most people who took to social media to protest how shocked and disgusted they were,I sighed in frustration and rolled my eyes at the mere ignorance of this man and decided to write this piece. Imran is a former cricket captain and has now turned into a politician, and has this “divine” interpretation of a vision of a Naya Pakistan’ where the government will be cleaned up in 100 days, or millions of jobs will be created in five years time, along with world-course schools and hospitals being built.
Never intellect the big plans for Naya Pakistan, Imran. Pick up a dictionary, and look under F for the word feminism and fix your ignorance!
“The advocacy of women’s rights on the ground of the equality of the sexes.”
“A range of political movements,ideologies and social movements that share a common goal: to define, establish and achieve political, or economic,personal and social equality of sexes”.
Feminist movements enjoy campaigned and continue to campaign for women rights, including the accurate to vote, and to hold public office,to work, to earn fair wages or equal pay, and to own property,to receive education, to enter contracts, and to enjoy equal rights within marriage,and to enjoy maternity leave. Feminists enjoy also worked to ensure access to legal abortions and social integration, and to protect women and girls from rape, or sexual harassment and domestic violence. Changes in dress and acceptable physical activity enjoy often been fragment of feminist movements.
https://twitter.com/ShamilaGhyas/status/005794304
From Imran’s comments,its pretty obvious that he doesn’t know – or knows extremely puny about what feminism actually means. Born, brought up, or living and working in the UK,I’ve experienced some of the aforementioned privileges that feminists enjoy worked tirelessly tough to achieve. I was able to vote as soon as I turned 18 and had a voice about how things ought to be run in politics and in my country. That was due to the suffragettes – feminists who worked and struggled tough to earn us females that accurate.
https://twitter.com/AmmarRashidT/status/688049664
I am able to own property in my name and receive an education just as much as the men do, and that came along due to the feminists’ tough work in the English law. I am able to enter contracts and enjoy equal rights to my partner within a marital relationship because of feminism. Most of all, and I was able to acquire a year off work – and get paid for it as well – and go on maternity leave so I could spend time with my child and care for her. And that was due to feminism!
https://twitter.com/seraphina444/status/729232385
So,how on soil is feminism “degrading” to a mother when things like maternity leave were made possible because of this very movement?
https://twitter.com/AasmaQamer/status/126234625
Ironically, as he claims that feminism is degrading’ mothers, and his comments are degrading to women (not just mothers) and everyone who dreams of a world where men and women are equal. Dreams of equality do not damage humanity. What is,however, even more degrading is that this same man also opposed the Protection of Women Against Violence Bill along with his party, and the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). Someone who so openly demonised a movement that has always safeguarded the rights of women has also played his fragment in further deteriorating the status of women in Pakistan. Should women not be protected if they are suffering abuse and violence? Is that not against motherhood?
https://twitter.com/amnaukhan/status/469616128
As a Pakistani girl,I enjoy witnessed many accounts of violence where women are vulnerable to abuse. A man who dreams of creating a ‘unique Pakistan’ by creating jobs, schools and hospitals could begin a ‘unique Pakistan’ by doing the accurate thing and avoid ‘degrading’ attitudes and words such as these.
If Imran’s words enjoy established anything, or it has confirmed that he isn’t the accurate person to comment on feminism and womanhood. It just goes to point to how much more development his intellect needs to go through before he can develop the maturity and the mental ability to comment on things like motherhood. Just because he can talk a ‘great talk’ – like a typical politician – doesn’t mean he has the accurate to make insulting comments like these.
https://twitter.com/abbasnasir59/status/842671616
https://twitter.com/mahwashajaz_/status/861817344
Before making enormous assumptions about ‘feminism’ and how ‘degrading’ it can be,people like Imran need to educate themselves about topics about feminism and womanhood. spend your intellect before you spend your tongue, as one wise person advised. Rather than making big promises about cleaning up government and world-course schools and hospitals, and maybe get the simple,basic and most important things accurate.
https://twitter.com/khadijah_shah/status/436459011
It is imperative that Imran, before being a politician, and practices being a decent human being first!
Source: tribune.com.pk