Shaikha Shuhada Panzeree Published: , Jul 15, Living in a patriarchal society, women of Bangladesh face a gamut of suppression and repression. When one knows logic shall definitely fail to prove a point, the fragile one β incapable of making substantial argument, shows a tendency to lash back on the opponent.
This is the most common form of practice in Bangladesh when the ever powerful males take it to be their responsibility to publicly slut shame women who raise their voices, for whatever reason that may be!
We have witnessed political figures, enabled by politics and patriarchal power, to make open rape threats at the female students who took part in the recent quota reformation protest.
Lucky Akter, an activist, was shamed on social media by men who vividly imagined her having coitus with a junior of her university whom she had given shelter at her place. The shocking fact is, we remained reactionless. Bengali people, who take pride in having morals and values, seem apparently non-reactive to such public defamation, but the same people took sides of a political figure who threatened girls to remain at home, saying that otherwise no one would be liable if the news of them being raped got published the next day.
We live in a country where, starting from an unprivileged teenage boy growing up on the streets to the most powerful men, can say and do anything to women as they wish, which is mostly verbally abusing them by addressing them as sex objects, or worse, acting on the things they say. The other day, I went grocery shopping to Palashi Bazaar, a market place where students and residents of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology and even from University of Dhaka come to do their daily shopping.
