{"id":219886,"date":"2019-03-27T12:44:46","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T07:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/?p=219886"},"modified":"2019-03-27T12:45:31","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T07:45:31","slug":"zaid-alit-is-calling-out-people-for-their-gora-complex-in-new-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/zaid-alit-is-calling-out-people-for-their-gora-complex-in-new-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Zaid AliT Is Calling Out People Over Their &#8220;Gora Complex&#8221; in New Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistani-Canadian YouTuber Zaid AliT just called out people who can&#8217;t get over their insecurities in a new video. He chose to focus on a particularly important one &#8211; the &#8216;<em>Gora complex<\/em>&#8216;.<\/p>\n<p>He also pointed out how we project these insecurities onto others (even those who don&#8217;t even care in some cases).<\/p>\n<p>Why did the YouTuber focus on this issues this time around? You see, Zaid AliT&#8217;s wife Yumna has been at the receiving end on social media, and its all because of our complex regarding &#8216;fair skin&#8217;. That is not the kind of attention you&#8217;d want.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Yumna&#8217;s physical appearance, specifically her skin tone, should be no one&#8217;s business.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One random troll commented that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This is how she looks cute. Cheap.Black.Monkey.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If it wasn&#8217;t brown people hating on Yumna for being brown, we&#8217;d call this something else (hint: it rhymes with fascism).<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; letter-spacing: 5px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0;\">ALSO READ<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; font-family: Rajdhani,Poppins,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;\" href=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/pakistani-canadian-youtube-stars-sham-idrees-and-froggy-tie-the-knot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pakistani-Canadian YouTube Stars Sham Idrees and Froggy Tie the Knot<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>About Zaid AliT and Yumna<\/h3>\n<p>The duo got married around a year and a half ago. Ever since Zaid introduced her to his audience, Yumna has become a social media star in her own right.<\/p>\n<p>However, she continues to get hateful comments regarding her skin color. Despite being called out for this, the hate just hasn&#8217;t stopped. Yumna&#8217;s refusal to react has just made trolls more aggressive.<\/p>\n<p>To counter this, Zaid finally decided to tackle the subject with the attention it deserves.<\/p>\n<h3>&#8216;My Wife is Ugly&#8217;<\/h3>\n<p>He made the vlog titled\u00a0<em>My Wife Is Ugly.\u00a0<\/em>The video features the couple reading the worst comments (minus the profanities) directed towards Yumna on social media.<\/p>\n\n<div data-mode=\"normal\" data-oembed=\"1\" data-provider=\"youtube\" id=\"arve-youtube-f12kzrfuqke\" style=\"max-width:662px;\" class=\"arve\">\n\t<div class=\"arve-inner\">\n\t\t<div style=\"aspect-ratio:331\/186\" class=\"arve-embed arve-embed--has-aspect-ratio\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"arve-ar\" style=\"padding-top:56.193353%\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t<iframe allow=\"accelerometer &#039;none&#039;;autoplay &#039;none&#039;;bluetooth &#039;none&#039;;browsing-topics &#039;none&#039;;camera &#039;none&#039;;clipboard-read &#039;none&#039;;clipboard-write;display-capture &#039;none&#039;;encrypted-media &#039;none&#039;;gamepad &#039;none&#039;;geolocation &#039;none&#039;;gyroscope &#039;none&#039;;hid &#039;none&#039;;identity-credentials-get &#039;none&#039;;idle-detection &#039;none&#039;;keyboard-map &#039;none&#039;;local-fonts;magnetometer &#039;none&#039;;microphone &#039;none&#039;;midi &#039;none&#039;;otp-credentials &#039;none&#039;;payment &#039;none&#039;;picture-in-picture;publickey-credentials-create &#039;none&#039;;publickey-credentials-get &#039;none&#039;;screen-wake-lock &#039;none&#039;;serial &#039;none&#039;;summarizer &#039;none&#039;;sync-xhr;usb &#039;none&#039;;web-share;window-management &#039;none&#039;;xr-spatial-tracking &#039;none&#039;;\" allowfullscreen=\"\" class=\"arve-iframe fitvidsignore\" credentialless data-arve=\"arve-youtube-f12kzrfuqke\" data-lenis-prevent=\"\" data-src-no-ap=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/f12KZRFuQkE?feature=oembed&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;autohide=1&amp;playsinline=0&amp;autoplay=0\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"372\" loading=\"lazy\" name=\"\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-presentation allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/f12KZRFuQkE?feature=oembed&#038;iv_load_policy=3&#038;modestbranding=1&#038;rel=0&#038;autohide=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autoplay=0\" title=\"\" width=\"662\"><\/iframe>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n<\/div>\n<p>The expose wasn&#8217;t limited to our biggest insecurity vis-a-vis the &#8216;Gora complex.&#8217; It also featured other issues that show how messed up our society can be.<\/p>\n<p>Zaid called for starting the hashtag #PhuphoKeBetayAurBetiyonKiDiscriminationEndsNow. That hashtag says it all.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;These comments are just a narrow window into how we perceive women in our society and shred their self-worth to pieces by shaming them for their appearance.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Working Hard is Not a Crime<\/h3>\n<p>Zaid then went on to throw a light on\u00a0classism. Why is working hard considered a negative, especially if its a woman? No one says the same about Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos or others if you think about it.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"5c99da7ace030\">&#8220;This girl looks like our maid, by the way, good choice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As for telling people they got the job they looked the part for, someone actually told Sylvester Stalone that&#8217;s he&#8217;s too ugly to be an actor. He then ended up making <em>Rocky\u00a0<\/em>and the rest as they say, is history.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; letter-spacing: 5px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0;\">ALSO READ<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; font-family: Rajdhani,Poppins,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;\" href=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/sham-idrees-and-froggys-latest-prank-is-cringe-worthy-of-all-kinds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sham Idrees and Froggy&#8217;s Latest Prank is Cringe-worthy of All Kinds<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Fat Shaming Was Next<\/h3>\n<p>Then came the issue of fat-shaming. Well people, Yumna is proud, strong and &#8216;moti&#8217;. And she&#8217;s not bothered about what you say.<\/p>\n<p>While some people feel better about their lives by saying all these mean things, Yumna and Zaid had a ball laughing it off.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"5c99da7ace0e9\">&#8220;This girl is too skinny, please feed her otherwise she&#8217;ll starve to death. Skeleton.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Saas-Bahu Issues<\/h3>\n<p>Some people let their imaginations run wild with an assumed &#8216;saas-bahu&#8217; rivalry. No people it&#8217;s 2019 and we aren&#8217;t filming a soap opera. That &#8216;pegging women against women&#8217; tactic does not work as well as they&#8217;d have you believe.<\/p>\n<p id=\"5c99da7ace104\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>&#8220;I hate Yumna not because she&#8217;s ugly, but because she took Zaid away from his mother.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s concerning how a modern society such as ours continues to hold on to this post-colonial mindset were fair is better. How does a society that looks down on hard-working women progress?<\/p>\n<p>The world could be a better place when everyone could work on enhancing their own self-esteem, instead of belittling others. That, in a nutshell, is what Zaid and Yumna hoped to accomplish in their new vlog this time.<\/p>\n<p><em>via <a href=\"https:\/\/images.dawn.com\/news\/1182165\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Images<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistani-Canadian YouTuber Zaid AliT just called out people who can&#8217;t get over their insecurities in a new video. He chose to focus on a particularly important one &#8211; the &#8216;Gora complex&#8216;. He also pointed out how we project these insecurities onto others (even those who don&#8217;t even care in some cases). 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