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Laila in La-La Land

Today I am saying bye-bye 2009; a year where good things and bad ones took place on various levels starting with the personal, passing by the national and ending with the global level. Generally speaking, among the few good things is the “Kolena Laila” event (3^rd year) that I told you about few weeks ago and this is my blog entry at the end of the year and the end of the event too; so whether you are a regular reader or a new one I am welcoming you to my blog!

Laila in La-La Land: Kolena Laila 2009

Laila: Cherchez La Femme

I used to mention over here how I am not happy with the status of women in our area due to the image people have about women, so my simple question is what lead us to this situation? Let us scratch the surface to reach for answers, hopefully!

Aside from generalizing which I do not like, I believe there is an atmosphere that support the attitude of extreme highlighting on the female parts of woman in the minds of people that is prevailing in our society.

This attitude is translated – consciously and unconsciously – into a behavior that focus on the body-related topics and thus you find it controlling various discourses regardless the orientation (left – middle – right) and the final status is that women had been categorized according to this into the two contradicting labels: “baby dolls versus root of all evil” for men which is another product for the extremely low ranked “hot or not” sexism categorization.

The implementation of this disgusting mental and physical segregation process is notable in the efforts that are being waisted – not spent – on quarreling about topics like:

• how women should be killed for honor crimes;
• what women should or should not wear;
• young girls and the FGM (not only FC) crime in Africa/Middle East;
• … the list seems an endless one!

I cannot understand this in terms of any rational way of thinking, so if we put our minds aside and go for irrationality , we shall simply discover the attitude of having women as a property of men in their minds and hence their presence as human being was reduced just as a female where as their mind is ignored after such minimizing process and women for that matter became socially oppressed by people regardless their orientation.

On the other hand, I do respect everybody’s personal belief; however in a country like Egypt where Islam is the religion of the majority, I am placing my critique about how sometimes – or many – people relate their actions to Islam and hence you find the both anti and pro discussions regarding the status of women and this lead to another stereotyped image that existed due to their actions not what Islam call for. This point is clear for people who try to understand Islam in a better way, not for those who believe in what others tell them regardless their orientation and whether they are Muslims or Non-Muslims.

You know what? Almighty Allah (swt) – GOD – had created us that we may know each other generally and in case of men and women specially. Consequently, I neither believe in generalizing nor extremism to any side and this means that the keystone to solve this problem is to understand our differences and coexist with them in a better way than we currently witness since many decades!

In a nutshell, my elaborations may explain the reasons behind why Laila went to La-La Land because some mentalities choose ignoring our human intellect – like modesty of the mind for example – while dealing women issues in our societies; hence let me clearly mention that women are human beings not only females, so if this fact seems hard for many people to understand since many decades, what seems harder for me is that we are still discussing this issue in the 21^st century!

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A single moment of understanding can flood a whole life with meaning. — Unknown Author

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Tags: human intellect, kolena laila, man/woman, social oppression
Categories: Critiques
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