If you’ve been on multiple social media applications, then you must have noticed a huge number of male creators making videos by dressing up as women. These entertainers shoot videos titled ‘How women do makeup’ or ‘How women get ready’ wherein they use their antics and humour to mock females by dressing up like them.
To give you an example, here’s a video posted by a content creator named Zaid Ali wherein he shows ‘How girls shoot their Eid videos’.
The video shows Zaid wearing a black t-shirt but covering his head with a dupatta, portraying that he’s a woman. He then used the different parts of an earphone as jewellery like maangtika, necklace, anklet and more, and shot getting ready for the festival.
Take a look at the video that is supposed to be funny.
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A lot of people did have a good laugh watching Ali mimic how girls make reels while getting ready for special occasions.
However, many people on Twitter thought it was not funny to dress up as women and mock them. They thought it was a great example of misogyny and male chauvinism.
Iska humour abhi tak 2014 wala hai pic.twitter.com/qmhbiSk50Y
— ⚡ (@chaiaurcake) April 23, 2023
one day we will talk about how men dressing up as women to mock them is actually misogyny disguised as humor but I don’t think anyone is ready for that conversation 🤧 https://t.co/CE8hzvvnQm
— Mimi (@presidentmeemz) April 24, 2023
Enough of this, let girls enjoy their Eid https://t.co/J9YfPTui1W
— Hoes mad (@12xmnx) April 24, 2023
And yet these men aren’t considered as ‘men imitating women’ and subjected to the backlash that trans people do, meanwhile all they do is turn a whole gender into a joke of a performance while we’re just trying to live our lives as we are. https://t.co/BcogOeRGT5
— Bubbles 🏳️⚧️🇮🇳🇧🇩 🇵🇰 (@Bubbleskhanum) April 23, 2023
They wanna be women so bad but the patriarchy not letting them so sad https://t.co/HSuqTXxXWr
— 🔅 (@pkpopculture) April 23, 2023
men stop being cringe everytime the girlies have a little fun challenge. https://t.co/4aXhFfdA9X
— ustad titty sahab (@ronnitrayy) April 23, 2023
He needed an excuse to put on a dupatta thought this "comedy" died in 2014 https://t.co/mnNGq5oAD0
— Shotaro Khaneda(+_+) (@ziomnahk) April 24, 2023
If anyone thinks this is “comedy” pls seek therapy https://t.co/qpm5k7hrJ6
— ameer (@any1831) April 24, 2023
A brown fella who makes fun of brown culture for a living https://t.co/2jBR7PChXZ
— 🦋 (@itsIawliet) April 23, 2023
taking digs at women, or wives in general is the typical desi comedy prototype and they are not ready to unlearn, chauvinism so deeply embedded. So true ab toh some women should be given copyright royalties by these cheap famous comedians.
— Zarminay trips moti choor ke laddoo (@trips_balushahi) April 23, 2023
Ofcourse. Pakistanis love making fun of women.
— ⚡ (@chaiaurcake) April 23, 2023
While some people thought it was a harmless joke, many thought it reeks of patriarchy. What do you think?