Misogynistic Tradition
"If a woman is wearing very few clothes it will have an impact on the men unless they are robots.""If you raise temptation in society to a point -- and all these young guys have nowhere to go -- it has a consequence in the society."Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan"The crowd pulled me from all sides to such an extent that my clothes were torn.""I was hurled in the air. They assaulted me brutally.""Is this the punishment for being one of Pakistan’s daughters? I did not go there in any lewd clothes nor have I ever filmed lewd TikTok videos. I was in a proper dress.""We were shooting the clip when a good number of youngsters started teasing me. They were joined by more and more. Seeing the suspects harassing me, the security guard of the Minar-e-Pakistan Park opened the central gate. When I crossed the gate and entered the park, the suspects came after me.""They also beat my team members, and used abusive language."Young Pakistani woman"Are #400MEN still not enough for the people of this country to finally convince themselves and their misogynistic & sick mindset about how wrong they are about 'not all men'?"Outraged Pakistani Twitter comment"I saw that girl’s interview where she said her team made several calls to 15 for help but they didn’t respond.""Hold police accountable for their criminal negligence as well."Beenish Zaman, Twitter comment
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| Representational image | Aurat Azaadi March in Pakistan | Twitter | @wdf_pk |
The mass male assault on a young women in Lahore's Greater Iqbal park took place on August 14. Officials failed to take notice until an interview was televised with the young woman who tearfully told her story, and the public reacted with outrage. That moved authorities to declare their shock and disbelief that such a thing could happen in public, during the day, in a respectable area of a great city in Pakistan. And they would take steps to ensure that such a wretched event would never recur.
Some among the assaulters of the young woman took videos of what was occurring, and then proudly posted the video on social media. The reaction was immediate, and perhaps more than they had imagined with women all over Pakistan -- and even from India where such outrages and atrocities are even more common -- responding with venomous words of disgust and fury that such an occurrence could take place in a civilized society.
"We are working on it full throttle", said Pakistan's information minister, Fawad Chaudhry, as police now seek to identify no fewer than 400 men seen on that CCTV video footage attacking and molesting the young woman. She had gone out with six of her friends to film a social media video to be placed on TikTok. It was Pakistan's national celebratory holiday of Independence Day. So the group headed out to the Greater Iqbal park.
Now that the public is livid with anger over the event, Imran Khan is paying attention, noting developments. Complaints have been filed against 300 to 400 individuals. The young woman claimed the men took her money, her earrings and her cellphone in her filing. The park is beside another public area, Minar-e-Pakistan, an iconic monument. When the men converged on the young woman, a security guard at the monument opened the gate for her to escape the groping mob, but it was too late.
In the video footage, the crowd of men is seen tearing at her clothing, throwing her about and groping her relentlessly. Social media comments focused on the event highlighting the country's pervasive culture of misogyny where the phrase "Not all men" is frequently used as an exculpatory comment responding to sexual violence against women. Up sprang a rebuttal: "Yes all men", swiftly trending in acid response.
And as one Twitter commenter said when no one appeared in the video to have taken any steps to give aid to the woman: "Not all men right? Just 400 men in the smack middle of Lahore groping one single woman". Ranking as one of the most dangerous places in the world for women, Pakistan has much to discuss with itself at number 7. If it maintains this continuum it will rival India for number 1 spot.
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| Simlyn J/Feminism In India |
A mere 0.3 percent of 22,037 rape cases reported in the country between 2015 and 2020 led to convictions. Reason enough to explain why it is that few rapes are reported at all in comparison to the numbers that actually prevail when only 77 of the cases saw the rapist convicted of his crime, according to the Human Rights commission of Pakistan.
"Deeply disturbed at the harassment of a young woman & her companions by hundreds of people at Greater Iqbal Park in Lahore.""What is more worrying is the direction our society is headed in. The recent anti-women incidents are a reminder that malaise is deep-rooted. Very Shameful!"Shehbaz Sharif, leader of Opposition, Pakistan’s National Assembly
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| The woman TikToker was assaulted by hundreds of people in Pakistan. (Image for representation: Rahul Gupta | India Today) |
Labels: Culture, Female Outrage, Mass Groping Single Woman, Misogyny, Pakistan
posted by Pieface @ Saturday, August 21, 2021
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