The red carpet and protocol; a culture of street level bureaucracy in Pakistan:
The ‘chief Saab’ is very real but the ‘saab’ is no more .
The Saab is a ‘mem’ (میم)now. Only that the narrative surrounding the ‘mem’ is such that it helps her navigate her autonomy in a very manipulative manner.
This ‘chief mem’ is the emergent reality of a very confused society.
Putting it simply. She can cry, she can boss and she can comply.
She can and will play the victim often!
All this for what?
Power!
Influence!
To get her own way!
This is not a piece of writing my fellow females will appreciate very much but it addresses a phenomenon quite prevalent in Pakistan as a consequence of Globalisation.
The global woman earns for herself, lifts her own weight and does not expect any favours from the men in her family or environment but the Pakistani woman is different.
She aspires for the glamour, autonomy and fun her western counterpart enjoys but with all the expectations a Muslim woman ought to keep from her men.
She is not ready to give up her ‘muslim privilege’ !
Which in turn gives birth to men lacking in strength and integrity.
When I say steet level burecracy I refer to the cunning used by the ‘chief mems’!
They know how and when to extract benifits , when to drop a tear and when to lift a finger.
They know patience when they want the other to wait and they know efficiency when they need things be done!
They know how to lead people into doing things they cannot do and they know owner ship of what’s not rightly theirs!
So much goes on behind the gentle and soft facade of femininity!
Patriarchy then is not merely men seeking to control but also a culture of power where ‘chief mems’ employ methods to manipulate power with men as their puppets.
Women turn the tides with familial and sectarian rifts still they get the red carpet treatment in Pakistan.
Power is addictive, power is fatal!!
A reminder to all in positions of power and responsibility:
" Lower your gaze from the world and turn your heart away from it."
Umar ibn Al-Khattab wrote to Abu Ubaydah on appointing him as commander.
#havefaith
#surrender
The ‘chief Saab’ is very real but the ‘saab’ is no more .
The Saab is a ‘mem’ (میم)now. Only that the narrative surrounding the ‘mem’ is such that it helps her navigate her autonomy in a very manipulative manner.
This ‘chief mem’ is the emergent reality of a very confused society.
Putting it simply. She can cry, she can boss and she can comply.
She can and will play the victim often!
All this for what?
Power!
Influence!
To get her own way!
This is not a piece of writing my fellow females will appreciate very much but it addresses a phenomenon quite prevalent in Pakistan as a consequence of Globalisation.
The global woman earns for herself, lifts her own weight and does not expect any favours from the men in her family or environment but the Pakistani woman is different.
She aspires for the glamour, autonomy and fun her western counterpart enjoys but with all the expectations a Muslim woman ought to keep from her men.
She is not ready to give up her ‘muslim privilege’ !
Which in turn gives birth to men lacking in strength and integrity.
When I say steet level burecracy I refer to the cunning used by the ‘chief mems’!
They know how and when to extract benifits , when to drop a tear and when to lift a finger.
They know patience when they want the other to wait and they know efficiency when they need things be done!
They know how to lead people into doing things they cannot do and they know owner ship of what’s not rightly theirs!
So much goes on behind the gentle and soft facade of femininity!
Patriarchy then is not merely men seeking to control but also a culture of power where ‘chief mems’ employ methods to manipulate power with men as their puppets.
Women turn the tides with familial and sectarian rifts still they get the red carpet treatment in Pakistan.
Power is addictive, power is fatal!!
A reminder to all in positions of power and responsibility:
" Lower your gaze from the world and turn your heart away from it."
Umar ibn Al-Khattab wrote to Abu Ubaydah on appointing him as commander.
#havefaith
#surrender
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