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Machines, the heartless fiends
Painting the town black IT WAS indeed a male dominated Islamic society (Painting the town black June 22). Poor women were hanged upside down from their dupattas. They were either locked inside their homes, all in the name of honour, or they were used as an instrument of entertainment by men. Then suddenly we realized that Islam is much liberal and Muslims are supposed to be much broader minded. So we saw large billboards displaying huge photographs of women in the garb of advertisement. Not to mention the ever increasing rate of women related crimes including rape, gang rape and humiliating acts against women even in public places. It was then, when a group of people realizing the moral hazards of exposing women to such an extent and its impact on common man did what irritates some people like the author of article under discussion. The criticism should have come from men when they were deprived of items which used to soothe their eyes. Surprisingly it’s the women who are all in favour of nudity and obscenity. Firstly, the writer admits that it is vulgarity. Secondly she misunderstood it all. Such things do happen when there is still some haya left in the society. Thirdly, she did not mention that almost all viewers change the channels or switch off their TVs whenever such crap appears on it. The issue of ‘sanitary napkins’ is very right. But for women it used to be a private issue. The writer must have noticed that at times, such matters are not discussed even among husbands and wives. But thanks to these ads today even kids know that what happens to a woman when she menstruates. As a bizarre argument, most of us are of the view that owing to this act of horror the investment is likely to suffer and a rising economy will suddenly crash. Interestingly, according to the officials, the foreign exchange reserves are still climbing and the notorious KSE Index has also touched an all time high. On the other hand I never knew that it’s the women on the billboards who keep rolling our country’s economy rather than economic policies and decisions done at the higher level? This also needs to be accepted openly that the advertisement people have gone too far in making woman as a sex symbol. While looking at the billboards, one feels that it is not necessary for a woman to seductively stretch out on mattress for it to be sold. Similarly, there could be many ways other than hanging a woman upside down from a ceiling to sell a mobile phone connection. For a mobile phone with digital camera, there could be numerous snaps available on God’s earth other than showing girls in a swimming pool. I guess the Maulvis are not to be blamed that much for striving to give back to women their lost honour and respect. I also feel that the writer would certainly change her point of view if she ever came to know that how , the world in general and women in particular, appear when you look through the eyes of a man. ABDUL MONIM Karachi | ||
GOING through the article, Machine, the heartless friends (June 15) was an interesting experience. The writer seemed to be a great critic of man-made mechanical devices, perhaps even to the extent of being fed up of working with them.|
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