For years, Love146 and others have sometimes said things like - “She is someone’s sister/daughter. Imagine how you would feel if someone did that to a woman you cared about.” We couldn't agree more with Aqsa Sajjad on this, when she said: “This is probably one of the most common arguments against abuse and harassment. Men are often shamed into behaving themselves and treating women like human beings by being told that the girl they are thinking of disrespecting is someone else’s sister, mother, daughter or wife. The point is to make them think of how they would feel if someone disrespected their own sister, mother, daughter or wife. I’m sure everyone who advocates this argument has their heart in the right place. Their intention is to make the victim more relatable, but what they usually forget in the process is that women are people too, and their value does not lie in their relation to a man—or another woman, for that matter. But here’s a piece of shocking news: I am not someone’s property. I am not anyone’s sister. I am not anyone’s daughter. I am not anyone’s future wife. I do not want you to associate me with a man just to show someone else my worth. Don’t respect me because of my relation to a man, a relation to a man does not warrant me any respect... I am someone, not someone’s.”
Read the entire blog here: www.elephantjournal.com/…/i-am-not-someones-sister…