On our Obsession with female virginity
From the Blog pakteahouse *By Umer Ali* [image: Women2] When getting married, a typical Pakistani man while looking for a beautiful wife who is compatible to his nature, also want her to be a virgin. He doesn’t care as much about her education, her family background, and her habits or even the way she communicates as much as he does for her virginity. The question here must be that why is he so obsessed with a girl’s virginity? Why does he want nothing but an intact hymen while marrying? The problem is not only with Pakistani society. It expands to Arabian and African countries as well. While Non-Muslims under this mania might have their own reasons, the purpose a Muslim has behind this fascination is mainly religious and patriarchy. “Unclean women are for unclean men, and unclean men are for uncleanpakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
We Are Loved
From the Blog sonyarehman *By Sonya Rehman* Over the past few weeks I met two beautiful girls with holes in their hearts the size of craters. Mothers, lost, mothers, taken away, tragedy, pain, like child-birth, I felt but half a human in their presence. Their endurance and resilience made me feel such an utter sense of shame. Because there’s no shame greater than weeping for the insignificant, in the presence of real, real, loss. There’s no grief, no test, greater than *the* test, offered without your consent, when your shoulders are enough, just enough to shoulder the burden of loss, and at times, not enough, too tender…too tender to cradle the loss of a loved one. Loss, like a babe in arms, nurtured, lest faces are forgotten, memories have a funny way of slipping from the recesses of the mind, slippipakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
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