By Azam Tariq Kohistani
“Is man superior or woman? This is a wrong debate that everyone tries to engage in, even if unwillingly. This debate is not only prevalent in Pakistan but also in every field around the world, where everyone is ready to contribute their share, whether in the form of opinions, arguments, or speeches.
A few days ago, an advertisement was released in India. In the advertisement, a woman made her husband work under her in an office. She gave him a lot of work and told him that he had to do it today. She prepared food at home and called her husband on the phone. This is the same man who is under her at the office and tries to complete all the tasks according to his wife’s instructions. The wife shows her husband a video of the food on her mobile and tells him to say to the boss (wife) that his wife is waiting for him. The advertisement ends, but there is a debate in India about it.
The question raised in this debate is how a wife can boss over her husband? Why the boss wasn’t made a woman instead of a man? But a question could also have been raised here that the man could also cook the food, so why the woman? All these flaws and evils arise when we look at this whole debate from the perspective of an egotist. What is right angle? And why do we call it correct? I will explain this later. First, let’s hear a light incident.
They told me that I went to the bank to pay a bill and had to wait in line like everyone else. In the meantime, two women arrived, went inside the bank to pay their bill, and left with confidence. Riayatullah Farooqui says, “I was very angry after seeing this. I went inside the bank and caused a scene.” I told the manager that I support gender equality passionately. The women just collected their bill and left comfortably, while I have been waiting in line for two hours. They should have also waited in line. The manager cooled me down by collecting my bill for me. I came out and waved the bill, showing the sweaty people and said, “Whoever believes in gender equality can use my formula.”
A woman’s life becomes very difficult if such a thing happens, even though it may seem like a common occurrence. Taking care of the house, having children, raising them, and then going out to work, etc. This is not fair in any way. Believe me; raising children is extremely difficult and challenging. Today, if the proportion of young people going astray is 80 percent, then mothers are the ones who are mostly held responsible for not raising their children properly.
As for the argument of a competition between men and women, it is a very strange debate. Would you ask an engineer to fix a problem in a patient’s lungs? Or would you ask a doctor to fix my car, which heats up quickly? If you say something like this, people will think you’re crazy. If you’re using your brain, you’ll say that the job should be given to the one who is skilled in that field… just like men and women cannot be compared as experts in different fields. You tell me, who is better, men or women?
