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Some Twitterati are comparing women to oranges and Jibran Nasir isn't having it

Some Twitterati are comparing women to oranges and Jibran Nasir isn't having it

"Is the burden to follow religion placed on women alone, or do men also have any responsibilities of their own)," he questioned.
17 Jan, 2021

We were aware of the 'comparing apples and oranges' idiom but there's apparently another comparison we were (blissfully) unaware of till now: women and oranges. Yep, you heard it right.

A user on Twitter compared women who don't wear a hijab to a peeled orange, implying their downfall with a orange that has sunk to the bottom of the glass. Another glass shows an unpeeled orange which is still floating ... signifying what one can only assume is clothes?(!)

Speaking all of our minds, activist Jibran Nasir called out the analogy for what it is: irrational and illogical.

"A fruit doesn't speak, express, feel or dream but humans do. Wear whatever you want but do yourself a favour and stop drawing analogies of your gender with inanimate objects," he wrote.

Replying to users who were using religion to justify the analogy, he further objected to the comparison of women with fruits, reiterating that everyone should worry for themselves.

"Before she is commanded to cover herself, he is commanded to lower his gaze. Let her answer to God for her choice of dress and worry about your gaze as you will be questioned on that. Sab nay apni apni qabar main jana hai (everyone has to go into their own graves)," he added.

"Yeh deen kay saray ahkemaat pay amal ka thaika sirf aurton nay lia hai ya mardon ki bhi koi zimmedari hai (is the burden to follow religion placed on women alone, or do men also have any responsibilities)?" he asked.

Many others also took offence to the comparison

Behold

There, she said it

Incase someone was confused about the absurdity of it all

Comments

Chrís Dăn Jan 17, 2021 06:20pm
Why guys in Pakistan are trying to be the judges and decision makers for women? It is a fact everyone-man and woman will go in her/his own and exclusively own and one grave and be accountable only for himself/herself. Even sisters,wives ,daughters and mothers will finally move to their own grave and these dictating guys here will not be in graves of these women So why this chauvinism?why to stop women to exercise her basic &fundamental rights?
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Chrís Dăn Jan 17, 2021 06:24pm
A nation where standard and criteria of a truthfulness,integrity,moral cleanliness of a woman is judged only by appearance of hijab-is doomed to rot . One can see it in Pakistan. Morality lives within a person-not in outer profile -in hijab or in a scarf or in sari, or in any dress . Morality is a virtue which comes from within.
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Uzair Jan 17, 2021 08:05pm
I'd like to say these people on either side have too much free time to be wasting on non-issues. But by being here and commenting, that might include me as well.
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NYS Jan 17, 2021 09:37pm
Misogynistic INSANE
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AAA Jan 17, 2021 10:13pm
There is a very phenomena called freedom, seems like our society got no clue about it, neither they know the pleasantness it bring along it.
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Zulfiqar Jan 18, 2021 05:29am
Jibran is confusing the issue. The post he commented on was by a woman for other women. Nothing to do with men. Just because a women wears or doesn't wear a hijab, it doesn't take away a man's responsibility of lowering his gaze. Women have their own responsibilities and men have theirs.
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Blue Knight Jan 18, 2021 03:19pm
@Zulfiqar Ok Both have responsibilities... But who you are to dictate them.. that what they should wear.
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Faisal Jan 22, 2021 06:45pm
Physics and religion dont mix.
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