LAHORE: Pakistani model and makeup artist Leena Ghani has recently revealed a shocking incident of harassment she had faced at Jami-Shireen Park.
In a series of tweets, the activist not only highlighted the horrific incident but also shared how she handled harassment in the park. She asserted that what she is about to share is an incident that happened a few weeks ago. “This is not an isolated event; this violence occurs every day; you will witness this one because there is a video,” she explained.
What I’m about to share with you is an incident that happened a few weeks ago at Jami-Shireen Park. This is not an isolated event; this violence occurs every day; you will witness this one because there is a video. 1/ pic.twitter.com/0a3Peaudoe
— Leena (@Leena_Ghani) April 22, 2021
In a series of tweets, she wrote that that she and her friends, who were sitting at Jami-Shireen Park, Lahore, were bound to attract unwanted attention, so they did what most women do: they ignored it. However, one very keen observer decided to take pictures; at this point, she intervened and asked him to leave. He refused and within a few seconds, the situation escalated badly.
“This is why the video starts from the middle, right after he pushed me and snatched my phone from my hand only because I told him to leave. No one was seriously hurt except for one man’s ego, which was destroyed to bits by the end,” she further wrote.
She further pointed out that this kind of rage is not unfamiliar to any of us (women). “The cold dark piercing eyes, blank and void. A scrunched-up face foaming at the mouth—incoherent speech and an out-of-control tongue. I have experienced this anger, the sort that has no return. And it always comes from men,” she shared.
Leena is keen here to point out all ‘men’ deliberately, as she insist all men reading this, to take it personally, “In fact, I invite all men to feel disgusted, feel shame and a collective sense of deep embarrassment,” she shared by urging all men to identify with this man abusing women, ‘he is not the other,’ she concluded.
“He is not someone who you all can’t relate to; brush aside and take a sigh of relief that you are better. When we have experienced that in many moments, he is you. Your patriarchy created,” she maintained.
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She ended the thread on Twitter by saying, “If you don’t believe me, ask the women in your lives. They will tell you how they recognise the cold eyes, the death stare, and the abuse that flows afterward. They will tell you to them, he and you are the same.”
She said that you (men) are the problem if you are silent if you don’t want to resist and revolt. “If you don’t call each other out and take responsibility of all the crimes your gender committed in the name of anything and everything,” she added.
“When we say ‘Yes All Men’ we mean every man because we know the anger that men have carried as their generational legacy, tradition, and culture lives inside of them and can show its ugly face at any moment. And we have carried the effects of their anger as our generational trauma,” she penned down an overwhelming post.
