Disclaimer: Views expressed here are solely of the writer and in no way reflect the views of Being Indian.
She was clearly not the poster girl of any religion. But she was a hit on social media much like Rakhi Sawant is a hit in India.
Her controversial statements, raunchy and borderline rhetorical Youtube messages were more often than not, unintentionally funny.
She was popular because people liked to laugh at her. She was popular because she did not submit to the guidelines of the male order. She was popular because she was often seen as an offence to the society. Much like Rakhi Sawant or Sunny Leone are.
She passed away yesterday.
Sorry, she was murdered yesterday.
But her brother isn’t the killer.
It’s you who made fun of her death on social media, who reacted to her death with a laughing smiley.
And some of us are making it seem like her murder is Pakistan’s fault. That there’s some kind of pride in thinking that Pakistan’s patriarchy is greater than India’s.
She was killed because of a male-favoring phenomenon called patriarchy. And it’s the patriarchy in you that made you laugh at her death. It’s the patriarchy in you that made you dismiss her controversies as a cry for popularity.
A girl who decides to publish her naked pics for sake of publicity…what her brother is sppose to do???(1/2) #QandeelBaloch— M H T ︻┳テ=一 (@HanzalaOfficial) July 16, 2016
#QandeelBaloch she created such a hype for herself that at this point in time, it can be anyone, blaming the murder on anyone else!— شیزب (@shezab) July 16, 2016
And some of us are making it seem like her murder is Pakistan’s fault. That there’s some kind of pride in thinking that Pakistan’s patriarchy is greater than India’s.
This anti-Pakistan rage is an excuse to instill a false sense of pride in your nationalism, when in fact it’s a betrayal to the values our nation is built on: to not hate others and think of yourselves to be better than others.
Because patriarchy isn’t a country-specific problem. It’s a gender-specific problem and it exists in every country, including India. So, we don’t have a right to call out another country’s patriarchy when we suffer from the same problem.
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