I’d like to start off with a sincere apology to chickens, turtles, honeycombs, oranges and lollipops everywhere. I’m sorry. I’m sorry that you were sexualized and used in unoriginal misogynist campaigns led by desi men who wanted an excuse to rape women. You have been threatened with drowning, dismemberment and mindless slaughter in the process. Oh, and I would like to state for the record that we love ALL bees and there is so such thing as a “filthy filthy bee”. #AllBeesMatter

Last month, the traffic police of Mansehra district (KPK) barred girls and women from sitting in the front seat of school vans because parents were angry about their children being harassed by the drivers. We all know that around the same percentage of boys are sexually abused but of course, we will not talk about it because……..okay, I got nothing! Maybe we can ask Imran Khan about that sometime. He’ll probably reply along the lines of “I don’t know anything about this”. I cannot imagine what measures our society would be willing to take to protect boys and men. So far, we have seen chaadar, chaar deewari and front-seat bans for girls and women. I don’t think they will apply the same rules for the other gender. After all, “this happens to boys and men too” is only used to suppress the voices of women and girls who speak out against the sexual abuse they have faced. I guess men don’t want to risk tripping over abayas or stay cooped up all day. It’s not like we’re going through a pandemic. Oh, wait!

Hassan Khilde Bajwa, the Feminist Dad, spoke out against this new rule and he received backlash (obviously from men) with a colourful variety of mansplaining. One guy said and I quote, “ all aside the Mansehra decision is really appreciated the men become wolves who are deprived of marriage (and even twice married guy can also be a rapist like in motorway incident culprit abid) and they watch p*** all day long or soft p*** like music vids now a days and perpetrators are also joining such fields where they can find women vulnerable to their actions like rickshaws, vans etc, you don’t cage a chicken with a wolf to check how long he controls his instinct

At least that’s what I think”.

May we have a round of applause for our staunch male ally, Shakeel Baloch? No one? Alrighty, then! I never knew IU’s Marshmallow was soft p*** but okay. We learn new things every day, huh? I yelled at him in all caps and didn’t bother checking any reply he may have written. I’m so over this mindless mansplaining. Do these people realize just how offensive this narrative is to men? They are pushing the idea that men are born with an instinct to rape women and children. So, are you saying that you are a potential rapist, Sir? I think this is the perfect time to use #NotAllMen. On one end, they point out that men rape due to sexual deprivation and then they contradict themselves by giving examples of married men who are rapists. What are they trying to prove? I don’t get it.

We are not animals. We are humans. We are not living in cages. We are living in a free world. Men are not predators. Women are not prey. Children are not prey. We are all born equal. If men looked past their insecurities, they would be able to accept this. Instead, they are terrified that women will realize that they are in no way inferior to men simply because of their gender. That is why they pit women against each other and promote the concept that “women are the worst enemies of women”. Moreover, how do you expect men to act like humans when you keep referring to them as animals? Similarly, how do you expect men to see women as humans when you constantly objectify them with lame comparisons to animals, fruit and candy? An interesting video showing the contrast between Norwegian and American prisons

revealed that the greatest progress was achieved when the prisoners were treated humanely. What does that tell you? Even criminals upgrade their moral compass when they are respected as human beings. We’re not even talking about criminals in Pakistan, just average men. Teach a man self respect and he won’t resort to petty misogyny to overcome insecurities that come from feeling less than human.

I am aware that men pretend to be ignorant of these realities and need to be called out. No more tolerance for these rape apologists from my end. I’m done.