Malala Yousafzai
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7 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 28 May
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It was the pressure of this whole community that they feel they represent.
Even though we were thousands of miles away from Pakistan, but they were still worried about what would our relatives think if they see me wearing jeans in college, if they see me with some friends enjoying some music in college or climbing a rooftop in college.
And for them, it was always this anxiety that
when rumors start about women, it is like the biggest dishonor you can face in a community.
Just to share one story, which is something I shared in the book.
One day, I went rowing in college.
I was trying new things.
And I said, let's give rowing a try.
That was my first and last experience trying rowing.
Never went back to it.
But I was just wearing jeans and a nice bomber jacket.
And somebody took a photo and uploaded it.
And that photo went viral, and it caused this huge social media backlash where people were criticizing me from the Pakistani South Asian diaspora for wearing jeans.
They thought it was not Islamic enough, this was against our culture, that I wasn't wearing traditional clothes, that somehow I wasn't just an ambassador for girls' education, but I was also an ambassador of the culture, the faith, and everything else, that I had to meet everyone's expectation, that I was somehow upsetting everybody.
And I remember my parents panicking and they are asking me if I would issue a statement defending myself, I would say something.
And I told my parents, no, I'm not going to respond to this at all.
I said that when my brothers moved to the U.K.,
they switched to jeans right away.
Nobody had any problem with it.
But as soon as a girl decided to wear a pair of jeans, it became a whole issue.
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