Injustice In Afganistan

For many centuries, women have faced harsh injustice in Afganistan, as well as all around the world. Due to the fact that they have a lack of formal government, the law of the military and personal reputation has taken a grasp on the nation. This has lead to women being seen as only having the purpose of reproducing sons. Since little girls from birth are treated as lesser, many parents try to do what is best for their daughters, as well as themselves. In Afganistan, many young girls dress up as young boys to feel the freedom of being a man for as long as possible. However, while this practice is good for the girls in childhood, it causes complications for them as they begin puberty, and raises questions about what gender even is at all. There are many reasons that little girls have the need to dress up as boys, or as they are called in Afganistan, Bacha Posh. This phenomenon extends to every form of life; families of every class and region have dressed there daughters as sons, even if it is for different reasons. "A poor family may need a son for different reasons than a rich family, but no ethnic or geographical reasons set them apart. They are all Afghans, living in a society that demands sons at almost any cost" (70). There are other reasons too to have a daughter escape the unjustness that their mother and sisters will have to face being born in the worst place in the world to be a woman. Being a boy in …show more content…
There are many practical uses for it, such as bringing in money or respect for the family. But it can also have lifelong consequences for those who remain bacha posh through adolesence and adulthood. Women being able to pass as men without anyone questioning it also questions why we see men and women as so different from one another, even in the west. We are not so different from one another, and both men and women must work to see that about one