Aside from the congratulations pouring in as Malala Yousafzai tied the knot, many were quick to criticize her over past statements. Or anything in general! So Senator Sherry Rehman stepped in to defend her.
Aside from congratulating the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate on finding ‘The One’, she slammed trolls for targeting Malala following her marriage to Asser Malik earlier this month. While the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) politician is not okay with the negativity in general she particularly schooled women who the Senator feels “should know better”.
“Shocked at the vicious jealousy directed at Malala as she celebrates what happiness she can find. By elite women who should know better, who take few risks for their beliefs beyond holding up a witty poster on women’s day, and toddle off for lunch to Sind Club next door.”
They see no problem in outraging over coffee about women’s rights at a club that bars women full voting rights at its AGM, prohibits full membership, and calls itself a Gentleman’s Club, while its western colonial progenitors r shocked at Sind Club’s 19th C rules & misogyny.
— SenatorSherryRehman (@sherryrehman) November 19, 2021
Sherry Rehman also added how misogyny doesn’t end with those trolling Malala Yousafzai. She pointed out how Karachi Gymkhana bars women from full membership, voting rights, etc.
“They see no problem in outraging over coffee about women’s rights at a club that bars women full voting rights at its Annual General Meeting (AGM), prohibits full membership, and calls itself a Gentleman’s Club, while its western colonial progenitors are shocked at Sindh Club’s 19th century rules & misogyny.”.
Earlier in June in an interview for British Vogue, the education activist stated that marriage might not be for her. She later clarifies the context of the statement in another British Vogue interview after her wedding.
“Knowing the dark reality many of my sisters face, I found it hard to think of the concept of marriage. I said what I had so often said before – that maybe it was possible that marriage was not for me.”
She wasn’t totally against the institution of marriage but rather against the ‘patriarchal roots’ of such practices.
