Give Women Characters the Male Attributes!

I was peacefully sitting in my room when I heard a dialogue in one of our dramas. And now I can list many sentences that our typical male character likes to repeat as if he’s not a human but a parrot but let’s just focus on this one particularly.

It was a dialogue coming from a man who was the father of adult kids and there was something that one of his children was not ready to do (I guess he wanted them to marry someone he had selected) So he did what the males in our dramas always love to do.

“I’ll send you home if you don’t ask your son/daughter to listen to me.”

And that got me thinking, wow!! Imagine in a parallel universe, us women get to treat them the same way they treat us. Like if things aren’t going our way. Just tell them we’d divorce them. If one of our children is marrying someone we don’t approve just threaten the husband that we’ll kick him out.

Perhaps, we would love them ever since we opened our eyes and would marry them but then our mother/sister someone, would plot something against them and we would bestow them with a characterless title. It’s so fun when you think about it.

Or that maybe we are the most loyal to our husband but then a very manipulative but dashing secretary joins our office. And he starts to lure us into his trap so we eventually leave our very happy home and marry that guy. (Do not come at me by bringing religion. I’m merely pointing out facts that if women characters are given the roles of males, that’s how it would go)

But, I guess we would not like it. It’s so baffling that one of the biggest production houses in Pakistan is run by a woman yet we see these cheap dramas where a woman is bound to have this threat once in her life. Either the husband who loved her dearly sees her in the kitchen with a man and her dupatta on the floor, and he decides she is characterless. (yes I know where am I pointing. It used to be my fav until I got my senses and knew what a shithole of a piece it was) I mean to even think of this as cheating is just stupidity on a whole new level. If women are to cheat, they’d be very subtle about it. Remember we are great actors because we act like we love you when in reality we’d just be tolerating you. Who in the right mind would cheat in daylight in someone else’s kitchen? Like where’s your head, bro?

I have another drama to quote here and that is Meri Zaat Zarra e Be Nishaan. Remember how the male protagonist used to be crazy for his wife. But then what? He falls into the trap of his mother and divorces her. There’s just one thing that I’d like to say from the above two examples, that men indeed do not have brains.

Or even better, he forces her to marry him and then eventually she starts loving him. He becomes the reason her father dies but oh well who cares because he is dead now. You can’t bring back the dead now, can you? Where are they actually getting these scripts from? Imagine reversing the roles and seeing the havoc it will create. I would love to see people appreciating and loving Meerab from Tere Bin the same way they loved Shahzaib and Shehryaar from Ishq Hai and Kesi Teri Khudgarzi. Just because she is a female doesn't mean she should be hated. After all, I think she isn't the one who forcefully married Murtasim. She is just someone who was forced to marry him by her family and that’s something totally different.

The only commendable drama I can think of is Pyaar e Afzal because it showed that no matter you’re the protagonist if you’ve shed blood, you're doomed.

I mean what’s with fantasizing about a psychotic person who forces you to marry him? Can you actually love the person in real life? No, so why praise them? Because then we get the same dramas over and over and over again. There are so many tropes to discover, and so many genres yet to be identified.

So, let’s just make dramas where the roles are switched and see what havoc it brings.

But, oh wait, I guess we all love a patriarchal world, even if we’re women in charge like Momina Duraid or Sultana Siddique!!!

As Miss Swift in All Too Well (10 Minutes Version) says;

Fuck The Patriarchy!!