Another day, yet another foot-in-mouth moment for a male politician when it comes to women. Are misogynistic men our only electoral options?
Imran Khan’s views on 'good' mothers and 'bad' mothers don’t exist in a vacuum, and it’s important to realise that there is no intrinsic, magical quality that determines mothers’ quality or influence upon their children.
Rather, it is the result of unpaid, unregulated and never-ending labour women perform in the home, through tasks considered the sole duty of the mother — ‘women’s work’.
Zuneera Shah, gender studies student at Harvard, calls out Khan's misplaced critique of feminism as a 'Western' import:
Such men continue to be in complete disbelief that us Pakistani women — who bear the painful brunt of the patriarchal onslaught every single day — could ever recognise, on their own, that the systems in place are never going to be in our favour.
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