She's right. I thought I was destined for a life of sexual harassment because no one told me it was really about youth. As soon as I no longer looked underage, the harassment sharply decreased. It's one of the most depressing improvements in my life.
smth so uniquely depressing about watching the women around you succumb to and eventually perpetrate patriarchal values and traditions, give up their dreams and resent it, yet tell the everyone that it was the only choice. and equally haunting is the idea that this could be you.
"We've been living here for 500 years. They've demolished our house
We Are your People, We didn't come from India. We are Pakistanis"
–An affectee of Bari imam