woman

    

"Don't dress tight, it makes you a slut!"

"You don't need to go to school, eventually you will end up feeding your kids at the kitchen!"

"You are a woman, behave!"

        Women were only related with the kitchen and taking care of the household. Stigma and other social dogmas, which are inherent, also cannot be separated from woman. The narrative of "how the nature of women should be" is like an obligations that must be met to achieve validation that we are "real woman".

    We are made powerless by a social system that marginalizes what women should be like. Patriarchism, which considers women to be nothing but a "weak object" and have no right to achieve something, haunting the women to be empowered, of their own accord, even to carry out education. It gives nothing but make women feel that being a woman is a bitter destiny, like it or not, it must be accepted by woman.

      Other things that will always tear my heart into pieces : rape. 

      I always cry knowing the fact that women are raped in daily basis, and worse, they are slut-shamed, powerless, and judged by the society. What a terrifying fact to know that the number of rape case is increasing year by year. No women deserve to be raped!

"protect your daughter!' NO, IDIOT, EDUCATE YOUR SON. Tell him how to respect woman as he respect his mother. Tell him to not fill his mind with thighs and groin. Don't blame our clothes, stupid.

Can we dress as we want without being slut-shamed and haunted by pervert? Can we walk safely? can we get a safe space for exploring ourselves?

Can we?

AND ANYWAY,

     Those things are still exist in status quo. Women are still marginalized by the unimportant standard that supposed to be disappear prior to today!

        Then I have a simple question in my head. 

"Is that a shame if you have a smarter and richer wife?"

"Will your worth reach it's lowest level if you see a woman live her own value?"

or "will you run out of dignity the time your girlfriend reach her highest career? therefore your insecurity level will raise up like a roller coaster that only goes up?" 

Woman, note that we have to acknowledge that being a woman is a blessing, and indeed it should be like this. Woman with her will and all her power can become and achieve whatever they want. "Powerful women, that's us"

A woman who has the power, to achieve all positive things.

A woman who is smart, brave, and has control over herself

Women who are able to be responsible for everything we want

What we can be? Anything.

  State leaders, activists, teachers, doctors, engineers, or a mother.

        We deserve to reach a point that puts women and men on an equal footing, get the same rights, and have freedom of opinion. We deserve the opportunity to educate ourselves as high as we want. We don't need your pity. 

            And for woman, be intelligent. Intelligent will never stop being beautiful. 

-nabil