"The male ego is boundless", says Pooja Gandhi in the DNA Article, "Three Pak hotties stump cricket".

Brief Background:

Pakistani actresses Atiqa Odho, Maria Wasti and Ayesha Umer have got themselves into trouble! After attending the Pakistan-Australia one-day international match in what the authorities call 'skimpy attire', they've been blamed for diverting the players' attention, which allegedly resulted in the team losing the match. Ironically, it was the Pakistani Cricket Board who had invited the actresses to cheer the team.

And the DNA After Hrs Section, takes one-sided biased and male-bashing views on the above incident and passes off males as egoistic and non-accepting. Analysis:

While this may not be the first time that the media has resorted to male-bashing, as male-bashing is the media's favorite pastime, what's interesting to note here that it's so easy to blame men, easier for society to accept it, and easiest to not to protest it. Far worse, even males do not protest. As a men's rights activist but I do protest against the way the entire thing has been presented.

Before blaming Pakistani players of being egoistic and non-accepting, the question that should be asked is who told the movie stars to wear revealing clothes? But no, spineless men call challenging a woman as sexist, saying "A woman has rights to wear that she wants". Well, Mr. Male Feminist, then in that case even, "A man has rights to react the way he wants". Remember your famous dialog of Gender Equality? Well, it has to be on both sides.

Then there are arguments like, even Australian players were there on the field, why did they not get distracted? Well, Miss Right (Always), you should know that there are stark factual differences and contrasts in the upbringing of Australian and Pakistani players in addition to their cultural differences. When a man who is brought up in such a conservative culture which fosters burkha clad women, sees a woman skimpily dressed it's but natural for him to get distracted and if he doesn't, probably a medical check-up is the call of the day.

How can the society blame the man for this? It's part of his psyche, nurtured and nourished by a conservative culture that has led to the distraction and that cannot be put to social prosecution by taking Australian players' reaction to the skimpily clad women as benchmark, because they are used to seeing women in revealing clothes, as part of their liberal culture.

If the man gets distracted, he is blamed as pervert flirt and if he does not get distracted he is termed boring, impotent and non-manly, what kind of a double jeopardy is this?

I guess whether it's "The Male Ego" or "The Female Arrogance" that needs to be dealt with here. But more than female arrogance, it is this inaction of the society that's more harming. Anything that a woman does is taken as her ‘right' and anything that a man does is taken as his ‘wrong', and still they call it a man's world!!!

It's again a choice with the media and the society. They want to continue with their male-bashing tactics, they may continue. However, in this process the cornered men (victims of bias), will turn into Baazigars and will give a damn to the society. Depends on what they want, Men or Baazigars?

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