A Thread: The constant undermining of female intelligence in this country begins at home. Assume your female counterparts don't know because it makes you feel superior. Shame on you. The simplistic view of male exposure grants them "know better" than everyone else needs to end.
Instead of providing support - men pity themselves. They'll break us down to feel powerful in an argument. When men claim they know how I feel living in this country, I want to literally spit water in their faces because that's how we females live every second of every day.
And then they come at me for being reactive somehow ruining everything in their fragile house of cards reality. Give me a break. At least you have the ability to create your own reality. We barter, haggle and borrow a sense of self because we aren't permitted to have our own.
I literally change my voice when dealing with men in various possible interactions in my daily life. The policeman, shop keeper, the CDA guy, the water tanker guy, the electricity complaint guy, the internet guy, the mechanic, the banker, the visa officer trying to hit on me.
Honestly, sometimes to clam me down - I remind myself that men in Pakistan don't meet a lot of women in real life. They do not have the kind of exposure needed to see us as human beings. We are literally fictional characters to them that are there to entertain and shock them.
