Re: Thread: Warrior women poets
The post caught me suddenly as I found it interesting and eliciting to a reflection once more.
The condition of many women in the world doesn’t concern only Afghanistan or Pakistan, it’s a “question” regarding any country and any type of society, if we focus on the restrictions and limits imposed to women. It’s called “lyrically” abuses but it s VIOLENCE. However due to my experiences in various anti-violence centers where young women to agee ones request help for their partners criminal behaviour, cared by psychologists trying to have e chance in their lives, there I have seen abuses in any form and coming from any social level, rather mostly from the highest ones. There are different types of violence, on a side belonging to frame of minds coming from distorted interpretations of religious laws, like in middle Eastern cultures thus creating a sort of “legal” violence, on the other side violence in civilized countries where women have to face discrepancies in jobs and salaries with men struggling for their rights anywhere still, and inside homes when they are beated and humiliated by their partners, till death.. The long battle for emancipation seems to be very hard, literature help to understand as you well writes about the novel you read. I love the Brontes, I remember while reading the book by Anne I was touched by the attitude of the protagonist , in her attempts to defend her soul and child, in this sense it brought to my mind another meaningful novel, Moll Flanders by Defoe, different settings, different plots, same struggle to survive to society and errors,abandoned by the mother imprisoned in Newgate, grown up in a rich family she received a good education useful for the rest of her life. .She wishes to live as a Lady meant as supporting herself earning money for her independence.I love Moll since she is alone in a world where it ‘s difficult to survive if you are supposed to face struggles, disillusions, and search for final rescue. Her determination leads Moll to obtain what she wants, even if her choices reveal to be wrong, she tries everything, we can say A WOMAN ON THE ROAD..without judgments or prejudices..
Coming back to your writing, Pity for women an children victims from the born again Taleban system, I resent the world having thought everything was over, and no more a word ,what’s happening shoudn’t appear like a terrible surprise, in this sense I feel to be part of the refugees, without places to go leaving their country again. It’s not a burqa limitating personal liberty, it’s what is inside your mind and the possibility to express it. Western women can go everywhere, dress in any outfit, work and study, write poetry, practise sports, ARE WE FREE REALLY ? even inside domestic walls? Can we tell what we think any time?However I consider that wearing a burqa is not the very restriction, it’s the impossibility to be considered a woman as a human being deserving freedom in choices, RESPECT, self-determination and personal decisions. In that country life has had a terrible break, but I myself feel to be a bit responsible belonging to the so called advanced or developed country, WHERE HAVE WE BEEN SO FAR'?
Islam has had traditions and culture for more than one thousand years, ISLAM is not Taleban dictatorship, those countries have the right to preserve their origins, respecting progress and emancipation as in any other democratic place in the world , this is the idea we should keep on to get more freedom truly, giving women the possibility to express their wishes dreams and future, in burqa or trousers , we have the task to help children to grow freely not frightened by a bomb or an attack, if we are the well educated WEST, then we have had many opportunities hardly conquered in the long run of history, so writing about this means supporting them all, giving space for womens’ voices, helping them to write,to say , to contrast. HARD TASK, but we can’t wait for better times, TIMES HAVE NOT CHANGED YET..hold on then.