Desert Rose: September 2005

Single Relation of Power Model

Power relations

Conciously or unconsiously our society goes through power relations among gender. Ofcourse men being the "privileged" ones and women going through a benign form of "oppression" .
If we look at the "single relation of power" model analagous with the "teeter totter" (known as see saw in some countries) we see that men are at the higher end and women at the lower as a homogenous group of beings.

Like it or not, believe it or not, men do get an unearned privilege that comes from our social pattern, they have an assumed right and women get the unearned disadvantage. Their lives, oblivious to society, are in a way circumscribed, limited; socially, economically, politically etc.....

hmmm, but is it really a disadvantage?

1. Men are at the top of the teeter totter because women carry all the weight and let them be up there, if it wasn't for women men wouldn't be anywhere

2. If women were to step down from the bottom space men would come flying down, so why don't we leave that space?

3. Most women enjoy the enticement tagged with being a women (I certainly do)

I just remembered how pretty the moon looked yesterday SubhanAllah...

white moon sat among wispy scattered clouds at early hours of the day

Extremely gorgeous SubhanAllah.... Reminded me of-tala' al badru a'laina for some reason

Over the India fever!

OK enough of the India jazz... I've just changed this "princess in india" blog into a regular blog so you guys will be reading some normal bloggy stuff on here :)

My favourite spot in Kashmir

flowers in our house

My grandfather's brother and his wife

SubhanAllah

AWESOME beauty!! Why would anyone want to live anywhere else?

dadios

clay houses on the mountains (picture taken from gondola)

doesn't he remind you of Mr.Incredible or J Leno?

bride and groom

AWWWWWWE CUTENESS

Bride

There's a little McDonalds in everyone

since when is ice cream not vegetarian?

My cousin's Very Hungry, loud and noisy geese

the one in brown is my grandmother, the one in blue is her sister and the rest three are their daughters

front yard of the house

singing during the pre wedding days

cute couple (she's not this chubby, just pregnant)

mother and son

cute but extremly bratty cousins

Youngest khala (aunt) and her daughter

Mom

my grandfather, his siblings and their spouses MASHALLAH

Mehreen The new bride... I didn't think I would miss her since she is a new member of the family but I really really miss her along with everyone else