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I watched Mark Weins when he was in Pakistan. Interestingly, during multiple half an hour videos, filmed on obviously very busy streets, there was absolutely no

I watched Mark Weins when he was in Pakistan. Interestingly, during multiple half an hour videos, filmed on obviously very busy streets, there was absolutely no female in sight. Such a disgusting country.

selimthegrim 6y ago
You realize there’s more than one part of the country?
techsin101 6y ago
common attitude there is if i'm marrying a man why should i be out working, perhaps you saw a commercial market
smusamashah 6y ago
How you being unable to see a women in a video make a whole country disgusting?
pregseahorses 6y ago
I grew up in Karachi, and this "absence of women" is an alien concept to me. It is common for competing stores selling nearly the same product to be next to each other, organically forming a whole street market with hundreds of stores specializing in products of one theme. There's an electronics parts market, an LED bulbs market, a used books market, a glass market, a kitchen-ware market, a used clothing market, the pirated software media market. This makes the markets loosely gender-segregated - auto parts markets don't attract as many Pakistani women as the dresses markets do. Search on YouTube for "crazy sale Pakistani women". :)
- amingilani 6y ago
  Not endorsing the super parent comment's outrageous conclusions, but... I'm not sure I follow. I grew up in Lahore, and there is an absence of women out of specific market places where they feel safe to go to. This is anecdotal, but if you walk from one point in a city, even Karachi, to another, you'll encounter far more men than women. Additionally, Pakistani culture conflates honor with literally the "veil" (_pardah_)[0]. When the motorway rape happened the Lahore Capital City Police Officer put the blame on the victim for "travelling late at night without her husband's permission".[1] I'm just saying, there really is an "absence of women" and the reasons are cultural associations with honor and decency. Acknowledging the problem is a step towards fixing it. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purdah https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purdah [1]: https://www.dawn.com/news/1582117 https://www.dawn.com/news/1582117
oa335 6y ago
Different marketplaces have different gender distributions. The electronics market will usually be majority male. The cloth/clothing market will be majority female. Also, your comment branding an entire country as disgusting reveals more about your character than it does about Pakistan.
Strahdivarius 6y ago
As a local with lots of family outside the few "moderate" urban bubbles (which are still far behind other societies in terms of freedom for women) this is very true and indeed depressing at best. Not even kidding. If I opened my photo albums, you'd see barely 10 photos in a 100 that have women walking by themselves (alone, unchaperoned and out of a burqa) in those places. This disparity has a far reaching influence over how Pakistani males interact with females in other countries, leading to Tinder profiles explicitly saying "No Pakistanis" (and sometimes Indians) in places with a large number of Indo/Pakistani expats, like Dubai.

selimthegrim 6y ago

You realize there’s more than one part of the country?

techsin101 6y ago

common attitude there is if i'm marrying a man why should i be out working, perhaps you saw a commercial market

smusamashah 6y ago

How you being unable to see a women in a video make a whole country disgusting?

pregseahorses 6y ago

I grew up in Karachi, and this "absence of women" is an alien concept to me. It is common for competing stores selling nearly the same product to be next to each other, organically forming a whole street market with hundreds of stores specializing in products of one theme. There's an electronics parts market, an LED bulbs market, a used books market, a glass market, a kitchen-ware market, a used clothing market, the pirated software media market. This makes the markets loosely gender-segregated - auto parts markets don't attract as many Pakistani women as the dresses markets do. Search on YouTube for "crazy sale Pakistani women". :)

amingilani 6y ago
Not endorsing the super parent comment's outrageous conclusions, but... I'm not sure I follow. I grew up in Lahore, and there is an absence of women out of specific market places where they feel safe to go to. This is anecdotal, but if you walk from one point in a city, even Karachi, to another, you'll encounter far more men than women. Additionally, Pakistani culture conflates honor with literally the "veil" (_pardah_)[0]. When the motorway rape happened the Lahore Capital City Police Officer put the blame on the victim for "travelling late at night without her husband's permission".[1] I'm just saying, there really is an "absence of women" and the reasons are cultural associations with honor and decency. Acknowledging the problem is a step towards fixing it. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purdah https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purdah [1]: https://www.dawn.com/news/1582117 https://www.dawn.com/news/1582117

oa335 6y ago

Different marketplaces have different gender distributions. The electronics market will usually be majority male. The cloth/clothing market will be majority female. Also, your comment branding an entire country as disgusting reveals more about your character than it does about Pakistan.

Strahdivarius 6y ago

As a local with lots of family outside the few "moderate" urban bubbles (which are still far behind other societies in terms of freedom for women) this is very true and indeed depressing at best. Not even kidding. If I opened my photo albums, you'd see barely 10 photos in a 100 that have women walking by themselves (alone, unchaperoned and out of a burqa) in those places. This disparity has a far reaching influence over how Pakistani males interact with females in other countries, leading to Tinder profiles explicitly saying "No Pakistanis" (and sometimes Indians) in places with a large number of Indo/Pakistani expats, like Dubai.