Stop mansplaining us out of our own realities

Stop mansplaining us out of our own realities

In a country where men have long monopolised both the microphone and the moral compass, it is almost laughable, if it was not so dangerous, to watch the righteous indignation of Hefazat-e-Islam – a hard-line collective that has one senior leader and at least a few sympathisers in the interim government – and their ideological kin, triggered by the recent recommendations of the Women's Affairs Reform Commission. A group of visibly agitated men, s…