Sara Taseer has always been a rather vocal woman. During the GE’18, Sara has stated in her tweet that she wouldn’t trust the Baloch women, assuming if they were her household help, to make decisions regarding kitchen duties, let alone trust them with their votes. Needless to say, a lot of hate was directed towards her as Pakistanis were pissed AF about Sara’s demeaning tweet.
Now, she has made Bushra Maneka the target of her mockery and social insults. Yes, the First Lady of Pakistan.
Sara’s belittling tweet came to surface following Bushra Maneka’s recent visit to an orphanage in Lahore.
Hey Bushy leave those kids alone #bushramanika pic.twitter.com/XxvN9cbI7G
— Sara Taseer (@sarataseer) September 1, 2018
The mockery infuriated people across the country.
It is never cool to mock or comment on the way a lady dresses. Clothes are a personal choice and are used as a medium for expressing one’s personality. Be it a bikini or a burqa, every woman has the right to dress in whatever way pleases her and should be provided with the environment where she can do so with her will without worrying about such degrading remarks from learned members of the society.
Anyway, many people were quite angry over this.
Apparently Salman Taseer was not able to teach you good morals! Her naqab is #notyourconcern
— Ali (@aliabidy110) September 1, 2018
Would that the degrees we boast of could just atleast educate us to respect others choices.
— Moazma Iftikhar (@Moazma_98) September 1, 2018
Shame on you to call yourself a feminist or a liberal left winger.
I have never heard a burqa women discussing other women’s exposing dresses but sadly @sarataseer needs to get some life and think beyond discussing other people’s dress !
— Azkjadoon (@azkjadoon) September 1, 2018
Feminism teaches equality not just across the two genders, but within each gender as well. Let’s keep that in mind, no?
However, then came another tweet that aimed to clean up her mess.
My nine year old Soni, would have freaked out if someone showed up to her school in white shrouds, a face mask and posed for pix #BushraBibi #JustSaying #mummytalk Lets get with the times
— Sara Taseer (@sarataseer) September 1, 2018
Obviously, Pakistanis were enraged at Sara’s remarks.
If you claim to be tolerant and want to preach tolerance than such a reaction shows you’re not practicing what u preach…being inclusive means embracing other people’s choices to dress or do wtv the way they want to do it as long as they arent hurting you..yet you have an issue
— Yahya Shah (@yoyahyo) September 1, 2018
Soni needs to experience different cultures, fashions, styles. Her mother needs to learn shamming other female is bad & is also called trolling. Burqa/no Burqa, face covered or hair flowing, Let each woman decide & make her own choice. Empowerment means respect choices.
— Hassan Nadeem Khan (@Khan_HassanN) September 1, 2018
Also, “let’s get with times”?
If we are talking about getting with the times so it shouldn’t matter what a women should wear or not. Teach your daughter that Please. #badparenting
— Shehbaz Khan (@justshahbazkhan) September 1, 2018
Then came another tweet, and all of the efforts put into replying to her by Pakistanis went out of the window!
Also #BushraBibi dress has nothing to do with the culture of #Pakistan. You will be hard pressed to find a handful of ladies in the entire country who take on that garb on a regular basis.
— Sara Taseer (@sarataseer) September 1, 2018
Wait, what?
People obviously came back with retorts.
where is freedom of speech & act?
like liberals are free to show thiers parts while burqa-posh need to explain it, its not UK/US, its Islami Jamhoria Pakistan!!!
— SayyarGul (@SayyarGul_) September 1, 2018
Step out of your upperclass social gatherings & roam in local markets of different cities to see yourself what an average Pakistani women wears! Further, every women has the right to wear what she wants to wear. #BushraBibi is no exception.
— smk (@fedexfan1) September 1, 2018
Mera Jism Meri Marzi Right?
— Ali Farhan (@SAF_Najum) September 1, 2018
No, the feud didn’t end there. Sara Taseer came up with a brilliant idea to retort to all the intellectual responses being shared on her Twitter handle.
To all “hurt” Insaafians on my TL, I believe the way #BushraBibi dress is not only bad for #Pakistan but a terrible example/role model to young Pakistani women. Its prohibitive to work &progress. It also does not represent the ave Pak woman, so bad message internationally. Clear?
— Sara Taseer (@sarataseer) September 1, 2018
And…it didn’t sit well.
If a woman wants to wear less cloths “it’s her right to wear whatever she wants” but if a woman wants to cover herself “it’ll portray a bad image of Pakistan” … Hypocrites !
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Reason why I’m extremly ellergic of these pseudo liberals !— نِمرہ . (@Itx_NK) September 1, 2018
It’s 2018, can we just stop telling women how to dress up? It really goes both ways.
Now let us know what you think about the underlying issue and Sara Taseer’s tweet? Did you feel think she crossed the line far too many times when she brought up this topic? Or do you agree? Let us know what you thought about her tweets.
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