Aurat March is not misunderstood.

According to the Global Gender Gap index report, Pakistan is ranked as the fourth most dangerous country for women, 153/156 for women empowerment, 145/156 for economic participation and opportunity, 135/156 for educational attainment, and 143/156 for health and survival. If you search anything about gender discrimination in Pakistan, you will uncover this country vying in the last row. Still, people dare to question the Aurat March which is the only substantial non-governmental and non-profit organization working on women's rights in a country where women aren't considered equal citizens.

On the 8th of March, people marched to demand fundamental women's rights which are their essential human rights. I have followed the Aurat March on different social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube to see how it has progressed. Usually, I ignore the videos of different Youtubers who deliberately try to cover the March to ask nonsense questions of the participants to humiliate or gaslight them. They come with the agenda of an anti-Aurat march. They consider themselves as journalists even though they are not but they believe that any person with a camera and mic is a journalist. But journalism has morals, and these so-called YouTubers do not have basic etiquettes. This time around, I gave their videos a shot to understand their opinions regarding the Aurat March. There are a few things that I noticed in all of them; they all belong to a robust patriarchal background and they have no regard for the rights of women. Essentially, they don't care how brutally women are being treated in this country, and they think of themselves as the honourable devotees and defenders of Islam.

Let me scrutinize their thoughts. The most conspicuous issue they have with the Aurat march is slogans. Most of the time they come up with the most famous slogan of Aurat March, my body my choice. It is a slogan used in Aurat March to grapple with the issue of sexual harassment, forced marriages, marital rapes, and reproductive choices which is a health issue. Any sane individual will not find this slogan problematic, but people with small minds will interpret it as they like. This segment of the population has no conception of consent. They are not fond of hearing 'No', and when they hear it they end up doing marital rapes, domestic violence, or beheading their wives, and burning them.

But if we look at the chronology of this slogan, it emanated from men during...