That is how they called her and any other women in Arab-Speaking countries. Women are called this if they dare to barge out of the social traditions that make their body a barn from which animals of this misogynistic species feed. These norms and traditions have held for so long like a whip that beat our women since we started writing, or rather since MEN started writing history.
She shivers as the images go through her mind. Fingers clutch her cigarette and coffee, and eyes look to the blue sky for comfort. She discovered from historical articles that in the context of her country and other strongly patriarchal countries, prostitutes used to smoke or were forced to smoke with their clients. But again, sex-workers are equal human beingsโฆ right? One day she woke up to the shock the her friend Chaima, an 18 year old woman, had committed suicide.
She described how she was brutally beaten, humiliated, and locked in her bedroom by her brother who had the full support of the family, after he found that she sneaked to the rooftop to smoke. Chaima committed suicide and joined the endless list of women who preferred death to living a life where humans with ovaries find no air. For drinking alcohol or accompanying men, be it their friends, lovers, or otherwise. For simply living. They are feminists in their actions, rebellious with their existence, women who show society little by little, under the accumulating dust of ignorance and inequality, that honor has a different definition than the one that has been taught to us by our misogynist countries under the teaching of norms, traditions, religion and the absence of science and knowledge.
Honor is in humanity, in the morals and values she believes in, such as love, giving, and contribution to the good evolution of humanity. This woman became president, changed her society, and now she looks up to the sky with hope.
They do nothing except sitting and feeling proud of nothing they did.. You must be logged in to post a comment. YaLa-Young Leaders Follow. Peace beyond borders! YaLa-Young Leaders is a movement of young Middle Easterners creating a reality freedom, equality and peace. Well done Greta! Keep it up! A true inspiration for all activists! Yesterday they met with His Holiness the DalaiLama. Blessed be the peacemakers.
