Being an adult means accepting the reality as it is and addressing the issue in the right manner instead of mocking it. Most of the people misunderstand the troubles a woman may go through while menstruating, a lot of young boys and girls even laugh when things like periods or breasts comes in a conversation.
Talking about such stuff is considered a taboo because most of the males are still in the habit of sexualizing female body parts. Making fun of the opposite gender body structure which they don’t even understand. Being an adult means to understand basic things like “female organs” and not sexualizing it. It’s not something to be mocked or made fun of.
Recently, a young Pakistani girl, overheard 3 boys talking about “breast cancer” in an utterly disgraceful, sexualized manner. She crossed paths with these boys, when she overheard them discussing breast cancer in a disgraceful manner. Fama Hasan took to Facebook to address the important issue and shut down the trollers who don’t understand the matter and take it in a humorous way.
She wrote the whole conversation of the boys in her post.
Yesterday I got out of class and was walking to my car towards the gate when I passed a bunch of guys who seemed like they must be in the 7th or 8th semester. This was the conversation I overheard:
Guy 1: Oye wo kia kehrae thay? (Listen, what were they saying?)
Guy 2: Pata ni yara ‘Breast’ cancer ka kuch kerne aye thay. Ussi ka btaye jarae thay. *immature dirty giggles* (I don’t know, they were just talking about breast cancer)
Guy 3: *smirks* Ayeinnn!
All of the guys: *Errupt in laughter*
I cringed all the way from university to home and I cringe as I type this. A society where basic human organs are sexualized to the point that even a cancer related to it is some locker room banter joke for these boys just like we talk of the one trump said. Little do they realize that it kills more than 40,000 women every year in Pakistan alone and these are just only the cases that even luckily get reported. Little do they know that Pakistan has the highest incidence of breast cancer in Asia. Little do they know that it is exactly this social setup because of which women are reluctant in medical checkups and sharing their issues, not even with their family members and ultimately lose their lives as the diagnosis only occurs at very late stages. God forbid some woman in their family suffers from this ever.
I have people constantly telling me that if you support a cause tou do something, beth ker baatein kerne se kuch nai hoga. To all of you, ‘do something’ se pehle beth ker awareness phelana aur samjhana zaruri hai. Cause when organizations do come to our institutions to take a step and ‘do something’, these are the illiterate idiots they get to deal with.
So rant as much as you can. Talk, scream and yell as long as you know you are heard somewhere by someone. Do whatever you can. Everything counts.
And to those 4 guys I crossed: Educate yourselves and those around you. Female bodies are not just objects. We are real humans with real diseases. I wish your porn addiction could have taught you otherwise.
God bless.
Read the orignal post here:
Pakistan being the only country in Asia with the highest number of reported breast cancer patients, one in every eight women suffer from this sickness. Around 40,000 female deaths occur each year. Instead of taking this issue lightly, we should educate everyone around us. Kudos to this girl and every woman who is speaking for herself.