Dignity for Men

In her travels through rural Pakistan north to south, Alam-e-Nau founder realized that many young men were depressed or angered due to lack of dignified and safe opportunity, and that men are overwhelmingly trapped in scams and schemes that affect their safety, their family stability, their name, and personal dignity. She found that drugs are more readily available that medicine; health is scarce, and disease is free. That men are trapped in intense and demanding financial cycles and schemes and have to work very hard to provide for the families whose demands, even when modest, can be overwhelming for many men, especially young ones. She also found that many men do not have access to dignified job opportunities; that they have to humiliate themselves, lose their land, lose their time, and lose their labor to coercive and fascist forces in order to make an income. Lack of safety and dignity for men leads to breakdown of the family structure and affects women and children who can be made homeless or become open to injury or being hostage to a system that usurps upon them, their life, their energy and dignity. To protect the men is to protect the walls of the society. Dignified Opportunity for Men, that takes care of their mental and emotional well-being, relieves them from debt, releases them from shame, releases them from stress and helps them make and run a household is critical for the health of the society.

I must also note that disabling men on that account while pushing women to shoulder the burdens of the external aspects of the economy may be detrimental for the health and safety of households. It can erode the nervous system delicacy of women. I don’t mean to hide women nor to stop them from economic participation — that is impossible for women are the economy. I am asking to protect women from the glare of the stranger, the harshness of the market, and exposure to the talons of the extractive and debilitating Empire.