“Mental torture” of men by women in Pakistan

 

This, sure, will raise a lot of eyebrows from men. How? Why? When? Where?

Looks like I am already sensing some apprehensions in men! C’mon. Relax. It was simply a bad joke that happened in the provincial assembly of Sindh in Pakistan.

The assembly was actually resolving an issue on violence against women, which is very common in the rural areas of Pakistan, by creating a panel to investigate it.

Violence against women in this part of the world is said to be mainly blamed to patriarchal attitudes and lax law enforcement.

Patriarchal attitudes may be referred to as that cluster of collective values, beliefs, and ideas that deem rural women to be subordinate to rural men.

It does not mean to say that these attitudes do not exist in urban communities, but they are, perhaps, more extreme and less tempered against issues of women’s right in the rural areas.

A strong presence of sexism, which is defined as man’s ideology of  male supremacy or male superiority may also be an added reason to the prevalence of battered women.

So, after the resolution was passed creating the panel to probe the violence against women, Jam Tamachi Unar, an assembly member stood up suggesting, in turn, to form a committee to stop the “mental torture” of men by women.

While this was made in jest, as Unar admitted later, it, however, drew shouts of “Shame’ from female assembly members, followed by a walkout by some from the seesion.

Unar told the press that he was only joking but that it’s a “bitter truth that the same way women are tortured in rural areas, men are the victims of mental torture in urban neighborhoods.”

One cannot help, but wonder, however, what “bitter truth” Unar was talking about.

No food on the table? No sex? Sleeping outside the mosquito net? Wife excelling husband whichever way you look at it?

Keeps you thinking, doesn’t it?