Why is marriage advocated so strongly as being the key to one’s happiness as a woman? The major reason, of course, is procreation so if you risk opting to marry in your late twenties or (God forbid) in your thirties, you are battling the biological clocks that are drying up your eggs within your aging, decrepit, soon to be hostile uterus. Wait too long, in other words, and you might never be a mother. Marriage, distilled into its basest and most distinct strain across all cultures and religions boils down to this almost pathological need to have children, never mind if it isn’t what the woman wants – and not all women want to be mothers – she (and her husband) must take one for the team and feed the Beast of Social Whim. A rare editorial on the nature of femininity in Pakistan today, with accompanying artwork by Moeen Farooqi, courtesy of ArtChowk the Gallery. themissingslate/2014/11/17/the-marital-groupthink/
Posted on: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 15:13:13 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015