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Heard it a lot and often that Pakistani society is full of male chauvinists and it’s the women who usually quietly and unhappily bear the brunt of making daal chawal for the rest of their lives. But that’s a pretty skewed perception of how ‘oppression’ works here. From dramas titled as kiya meri shaddi shahruk say hogi?, yeah rishta kiya kehlata hay to Kahawteen digests, which I believe are soft cryptic porn versions full of misogynistic annotations in their own right, almost all of this material today is interestingly written and produced by women. Another common misconception and line of argument is to claim that these kahwateen digests and dramas are exaggerated versions of reality, whereas in real women do not enjoy being slapped around (with romantic underpinnings) by men who ‘love’ them or by men who are not after all bad at heart and are actually very affectionate deep inside, provided that she make perfectly crisp and round parathas that he loves. Many a times, maybe in rou...