They point out the many ways in which it is the woman’s fault, the clothes, the actions, the failure to foresee the crimes that await them.

They pour into chatrooms and clubhouse sessions, on Instagram and on Twitter, ready to ‘kill’ the victims twice and three times. This is not death and suffering handed out, it is death and suffering handed out with relish, with a certain joy and elation that is utterly grotesque.Īll men do not kill or abuse, but a large number of them can be seen supporting those who attack and abuse women. Yet it is also true that the recent episodes of killing after killing - the public manhandling of a female social media personality, the beheading of a beautiful young girl - all have an anger, a vile and pestilent quality that is not the norm. Women have been butchered, mentally and physically and emotionally, for a terribly long time in Pakistan. All were astounded at the particular quality of recent attacks on women. In one such conversation, young women gathered to speak about the ferocity of the recent spate of violence. Sometimes, online, women are able to find a small corner that has not yet been invaded by men. Even dead women are not spared, forced to die second and third and fourth deaths at the hands of men who are convinced that it is never ever their fault. Some angry man somewhere is always waiting to pounce, to harm and to hurt. Existing anywhere where there are men, and that is everywhere in Pakistan, has been laden with risk for women. The living have had their own share of tribulations: maimed and harassed, made subject to the fury of mobs in real life, made subject to the fury of mobs online. Women have been killed by husbands, killed by their in-laws, killed for existing, killed for refusing to do the bidding of some feral and entitled man. PAKISTANI women have seen everything in these arduous, long and bloody weeks.

Dawn of the angry