Adiba Nizami

i'm really only a few episodes in but i love this show already. people are talking about how it helps instill empathy for both ends but i personally found it more useful for us to understand the; "women give birth everyday", but when a man does, sort of implication. it isn't simply for the husbands and boyfriends to feel and understand what the other party goes through with when they "leave", but also a picturisation of how women giving birth is something we have gotten desensitized towards, believe it or not. giving birth to and raising a kid in a process you have to invest your very being in, and in the culture that i have been brought up in, women do it everyday like it's a piece of cake and that that is what their life's meaning is solely supposed to be, whereas a man no matter how involved in their child's life is and no matter how big of a family they're deemed responsible for, at the end of the day, going to have relatively little of their individuality and autonomy effected in contrast to the parent women, because of which i would give anything to see a man struggle with things like "you don't have to work anymore, you're not needed to" where their autonomy and independence is questioned and threatened with little consequence for the inflictor. i know it sounds hateful but it isn't. it's pretty much the same as begging for empathy.