Try this one, Dear Gentle Reader(s). Andrew Sullivan has this little gem on his Daily Dish blog included in a bit titled, “How To Write About Pakistan”:
If woman [sic] are on the cover, then the two possible Pakistans are expressed through choice of clothing: is it bridal wear or burkhas?
On the subject of women, they never have agency. Unless they break all the rules, in which case they’re going to end up dead. I don’t think there’s anything else to be said about them, is there?
The author, one Mohammed Hanif, is being facetious one hopes. Even in jest, though, given what we’ve been told about the treatment of women in that area, this is harsh.
An anthropology professor once warned about “arrogance” which sometimes infected the biases of one culture’s observations of another’s.
Keeping in mind the dangers of hubris still allows, I hope, the observation that this attitude towards women cannot be what the Creator worshipped by this culture, and similar cultures, had in mind.
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