Tasnim Ahmed

When I moved to the America, not much was different. I had been countlessly followed home, harassed in public and private spheres, and I stayed quiet.

Married women will rehash accounts of their weddings. Listen to them. Their cheeks will be flushed.

There is nothing more painful than love that is withheld.

The first night after you left, after you drove off and I ran after you, running and believing that you would stop for me, I slept on the living room floor.

To liken a woman’s writing to that of Carrie Bradshaw is to say “petty” or “frou frou”, “silly” or “oh you silly woman!”, a terminology and definition perhaps first coined by those afraid of the independent woman, an attempt to belittle women who have found for themselves a voice.

I will never love a man who does not treat me with respect and kindness, tenderly, his one and only.

It is why many of us engage in OKCupid flirtations for months on end, without ever meeting or seeing the person on the receiving end: fantasy is better than reality.

I hope that her friends will listen to this song and find acceptance, too, and I believe that they will, because to these girls, Beyonce is a messiah. What Beyonce says, does and believes, they do as well. That is the power of a well-crafted pop star.

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