Suffering from brain damage

DONE!

Excuse me while I go burn my books.

Some shots by Canon D20

I get worked up

I never knew what it meant to be brown, or be Pakistani until recently. Before I was just Pakistani, who knew Urdu and ate awesome food. Now I know a lot more about my religion and culture and what it defines. The fashion, politics, poetry, society was a whole new view of being South Asian and I liked it. I like a lot of what I’ve been exposed to, but there is so much I am against and there is nothing I can do about it. I argue the same points over and over but it doesn’t change anything. Everyone has a right to their own opinions and views, as do I. I feel like the whole world has moved on and started to look at woman as individuals except my culture (for what I’ve observed) so not to sound generalizing. Girls hit 20 and begin to worry about marriage (more like obsess over it) mainly because they feel a great amount of pressure from others. Woman who get divorced aren’t given an equal chance at life again, because somehow they are not as respectable as they were before their divorce. Woman becomes a widow and hesitates to re-marry because people will look down-upon. Second marriages for woman is just not as acceptable as a man. Woman can’t be paid as high as a man can. Why I ask, why? Who made these rules, and who says this is how it should be? Not religion, that’s for sure! Before I say anything else, I’m aware that many of us don’t think this way anymore but I base this on my own observations in general, as overview. Woman aren’t the same as they used to be 50-100 years ago, things have changed. Women are educated, working, buying property, driving their own cars, paying their own bills. The power that men think they have is usually given to them by a woman. Women boost their egos to fool them into thinking that “you're the man”. Do you really think a woman is a weak little thing? She can give birth to you; she can take you off this planet too. Im not a man-hater. But I do despise this useless debate about women being less than men or being potentially dirty because they have a past. Yes a woman is NOT equal to a man, but that doesn't mean he is superior to her. No one I know is dying or depressed over being single. If anything, they enjoy themselves and the freedom it has to offer. If it happens, it happens. If it doesnt, life goes on and women now have their careers as their back up plans. These women still go on vacations, smile, live and do the things that make them happy. As much as men want a strong woman...they cant seem to let go of the dependence of a frail woman had. In that case, it’s simple: you cannot have your cake and eat it too. You give some and you take some. The perfect woman does not exist and as much as women compromise...men must also. RANT OVER!