Society Uses Suffering as the Measure of a Woman’s Worth

It’s a misogynist’s utopia

Mutasim Billah
5 min readOct 16, 2020

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Photo by Marie Couffon de Trevros on Unsplash

A woman doesn’t start at zero. Her initial score is in the negative. Being born female means being handed a long list of socially composed commandments to comply with —the prerequisite to scoring anything on the goodness scale.

Forget about appreciation. Just to be generally accepted as a person worthy of any value she has to do things most men wouldn’t — things almost no man is ever asked to do.

A man doesn’t start in the negative. He begins his life with a good initial score — a head start. Simply being born male, he is free from ever having to reach standards of astronomical heights, to be allowed to walk the earth with a head held high. And he finds himself light years ahead of his female counterpart in the society because this standard isn’t used to measure his worth —

Suffering.

“What?! Men don’t suffer?”

No. Not the way a woman does.

Being sacrificial isn’t just a necessity for a woman, our society attached it to her very definition.

Suffering isn’t just about going through hardships. Everybody struggles in life at some point, and that gives a woman no…

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Mutasim Billah

Stockholm-based Tech Consultant & Photographer • MSc in Econ