I was walking on the road at Saddar, opposite Zainab Market, and saw a car pass by me. I wouldn't have noticed but the car slowed down as it passed and that is when I saw that woman. Her face was covered with a veil and all I could see were her eyes. She leaned against the passenger seat door while the man driving the car leaned towards her pulling her towards him with her veil. He grabbed on to it and all I could see was fear in her eyes. For the first time in my life I saw fear in someones eyes. The car simply passed by.
The woman who cooks, who cleans, who carries a child in her womb for 9 months and goes through labor to deliver that child, the woman who listens, who is a partner in life and in bed; does not deserve to be abused by a man who is obviously physically way stronger than she is. She does not deserve to be treated any less then a daughter by her in laws, she does not deserve to be burned, to be cheated on, to be sexually harassed. She does not deserve to be buried alive with her dead husband or have her infant daughter buried. She does not deserve to be killed if raped, doesn't deserve to be raped in the first place.She does not deserve to be judged on her physical appearance rather than her qualification. She does not deserve to be frowned upon if she does not have a spouse.
That woman does not deserve the abuse, in all its forms, that has been and still is laid on her.
I'm no feminist and even I know that.
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