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she’s just beautiful!! <3
imanmeskini: a picture from last night! #pakistaniwedding #pakistaniforaday
I need them in my life again!!
Iman and Tarjei at the royal dinner
Vote!!! The queen deserves this award!!
Iman is nominated for audience prize at Gullruten. Please vote.
Link: http://m.side2.no/underholdning/gullruten-stem-pa-din-tv-favoritt/3423426820.html
Re-watching
M A G H R I B
I.... I had to share these words, because they speak of truth and they speak of me and my sisters... Because they hit real hard...
Women of the word.
You led me to become a strong and independent woman. But you did so suffering. And you shouldn’t have to.
Women of the world.
You were destroyed in the past and you still are today. By men who, in need of power and control defined you as a simple hole.
Women of the world,
I wish I could tell you the fight was won but it is not. I wish I could tell you it’s over but it’s not.
As a kid, my mom said she wanted me to become a perfect woman. An educated and intelligent woman, but one who can manage a household as well and take care of her husband.
I don’t blame her. She grew up in a culture that asked too much from women and not enough from men. She grew up in a culture where women would carry all the burdens but men pretended they would. She grew up in a culture that presented husbands as a purpose, not a choice.
But I said
“Mom, I can’t. I cannot for I love my flaws too much. I love the flaws you despise, my laziness, my uncombed hair, the unfeminine side in me. I love all of it.
But hear me for they don’t make me any less of a woman. I am as worthy as others and you taught me that. For what matters is inside of me. And you told me, I was always loved for my kindness to others.”
As a kid, media taught me women were the weaker sex. For they are too sensitive, for they need too much attention, for they want to be loved.
As a woman, education taught me men needed women. For they couldn’t last a day without them. But women don’t need men, women evolve and thrive with no man. But that was hidden from us for too long.
I was in the middle of the Handmaid’s tale and I started sobbing. So hard actually, I just turned it off for a bit. Because for one second, I saw how real that was. How greedy men took everything from us for too many centuries. How greedy men led us to believe we were weak when they wouldn’t last a single fucking hour with those period cramps. When they wouldn’t even survive a fucking pregnancy let alone the delivery.
And I never wanted the two genders to be at war. But they started it.
I am no great author though I wish I was and I don’t know if this text will be read by many or even any. But for those of you kind enough to read me, please let it be a time to honor those women, who throughout History suffered. To all of those women who were and are raped, to all of those victims of domestic abuse, please let’s remember them.
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