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Wake Up Already!

Amna Chaudhry February 14, 2009

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#10 Posted by mohsinka on July 3, 2009 3:47:36 pm
errr!!! Apart from a very little number of girls, i know, most of my friends are so determined and focused at what they want in their lives and how they plan to achieve it. Even a friend of mine wants to end up with a wealthy man just because she doesn't want to end up, falling in love and hence living a mediocre life. I just meant to say here was that the determination of girls nowadays is climbing on day by day. Of course plastic girls exist, but they have been reduced to a very small number... What Pink portrayed in her video(which i watched in order to comment here, and it was one hell of an ordeal, as i am not into hip hop or semi-pop bands/artists ) was practically based for the society she lives in. Our world is different, but there has been observed an inclination towards that kind of society in the past few years... and so we remain confused. We are more confused than any living society in the world. Lets take your example, if you don't mind, i hope :) . You in your article gave one example of the subcontinent woman "Laskshmibai", and that too a hundred year old incident, where as you discussed PCD, Paris hilton, etc, the "today" women of the west, all over your document. I can very well see that your knowledge is bound only to what you've been taught and what you follow. PCD sucks, i agree. Nicole my be hot but she has a badass voice, noted!!! But giving her example and of Paris hilton (more famously known among us guys for her nude clips) only reflects that you totally ran out of examples from your own society...

Bottom line: I really like your effort. It is invoking, no doubt, and very good attempt to bring forward some useful cause to remind people of who they are and what they can be if they can only follow their heart and not the world around. But i will again emphasize you to give people more examples from the society concerned. This way they won't comment like this: "boring. the essay written in a school like format..." lol!!! anyways best of luck for your future writings =)
Mohsin Khubaib Ahmed
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#9 Posted by DinaStrange on March 14, 2009 6:06:11 am
boring. the essay written in a school like format.
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#8 Posted by amnach on February 23, 2009 5:59:38 am
Re: # 6 I can't :/
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#7 Posted by Shab on February 21, 2009 1:17:32 pm
thanks for the reminder, amna
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#6 Posted by nb on February 20, 2009 8:43:59 am
It's an easy, undemanding thing to be. I can see the appeal of it!
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#5 Posted by amnach on February 20, 2009 8:32:45 am
Re: # 4 But why??? It seems to be an extremely unfulfilling thing to be :(
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#4 Posted by vakibs on February 20, 2009 2:59:11 am
You are beating a dead horse Amna. Just accept it. There will never be a shortage of girls who want to be bimbos. It is fine as long as there are a few who don't want to be.
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#3 Posted by amnach on February 19, 2009 5:05:25 am
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You're right, The retching is pretty disgusting :)
This article is actually about those Pakistani girls who are lucky enough to go to private schools. Their world and the world that the rest of Pakistan belongs to are completely different. It is sad to see that all these sixteen year old girls seem to care about is clothes, boys and themselves when they actually could make a difference.
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#2 Posted by parthaab on February 18, 2009 5:55:36 am


For years the feminists were squawking about the 'fact' that women received harsher sentences than men when it came to sentencing in the courts.

And, of course, it turned out they were lying, as usual. The objective research showed the complete opposite.

The trick that they usually employ is this one.

The women's groups come up with a load of hocus-pocus that makes men out to be better treated than women, or that they are far more abusive than is currently recognised. They base these lies on virtually anything that they can get their hands on.

Air will do.

Their feminist cronies in the media wet themselves with delight and publish the falsehoods with large headlines accompanied by exaggerated tales of female misery and woe.

The public is outraged. The politicians are blackmailed (literally) into supporting their malicious causes both vocally and with funding. If they refuse, they are publicly and vociferously castigated as being closet supporters of violence against women and child abuse etc.

In the meantime, the men's groups have no funding to test or to counteract the 'research' and they do not have very much access to willing accomplices in the mainstream media. So there is no protest, and no public outrage at the feminist lies.

http://www.angryharry.com/eswerewomenoppressedinthewest.htm

A few years later, with any luck, someone, somewhere, manages to prove that the feminist groups were lying all along, but it hardly gets a mention in the media. Besides which, it's too late. The damage has been done. The female population has been enraged successfully against men for a few years over the matter (and over all the other slanders against men that are running concurrently) the laws have quickly been changed to disadvantage men, and the feminists just keep coming up with other lies to replace them.

Today, millions of men look back at the devastation this movement created in their lives. Publicly derided as useless, feckless idle wasters, men have retreated into their holes to lick their wounds. A generation of young men in their early twenties is now adrift in a sea of misandry. They are regularly exposed as less able than their sisters and pilloried as academic failures by the press. No wonder they turn to mental illness, suicide and drugs. Their feminist mothers, in many cases with multiple sexual partners, have abandoned their role as care givers. Children come home to empty rooms, empty fridges and no warmth. These are the children of the 'nobody home' generation. The feminist movement decreed that all women must enter the work force and hand their young children over to the care of the 'mother' state. As the divorce rates soar, men refuse to make any commitment that ties them to women who, when they are bored with the relationship, will boot the men out and keep the money and the children.

http://www.angryharry.com/esWomen-WeakandPathetic.htm

The gross injustice to men deserves our concern but save your tears for innocent women. Our daughters did not deserve the inheritance of malice and spite that my generation of women heaped upon the shoulders of men. The feminisation of the schools where all male efforts were seen as malignant. The natural attraction between boys and girls described as 'sexual harassment,' and the terrible loss of tenderness and romance that has been leached out of the lives of women.

What we have left, thanks to this evil movement, is a vast number of lone women trying to keep what is left of family life going. They never asked to be foot soldiers in what has become a feminazi army. They were not blessed with skills and college degrees that gave them economic power to make decisions when they were abandoned by their men. They believed that the feminist movement was going to offer them choices. What they did not understand was that there were never any choices. Men, realizing that they had been cast in the role of sexual monsters, retaliated. Those that didn't pitch into the war of the sexes with relish, simply faded away. Women facing the new millennium have few choices. One of them must be to take back our homes and our families from the clutch of the feminist movement.

Fight back against the ridicule heaped upon men. Those men are our sons and hopefully, our future son-in-laws. Where are the men and women who want to preserve family life in this country? Are they willing to stand up and be counted?


Sick of male bashing in the media? Say NO To The Silence


WAKE UP MALES! SPEAK UP!

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#1 Posted by nb on February 17, 2009 11:01:03 pm
I love that song by Pink too, and I always switch it off before the end, so that I don't have to hear the retching!
This is a complex issue, and probably one that deserves a series of articles on chowk.
A lot of young women don't want to be called feminists, but they take a lot of their everyday rights for granted. These didn't just land in our laps. I think this is a generation that has heard complaints from the regressive sections of society since childhood, and has also seen that having to fend for yourself isn't easy. Since they've always had choices, they have no idea what their foremothers lived through, and they think this is the easier way.
There can be no post-feminism when there is still child-marriage and even isolated cases of infanticide in parts of India. I won't even talk about the future in Taliban-ruled areas of Afghanistan. By the time younger women wake up, it may just be too late.
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    #10 mohsinka
    #9 DinaStrange
    #8 amnach
    #7 Shab
    #6 nb
    #5 amnach
    #4 vakibs
    #3 amnach
    #2 parthaab
    #1 nb

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