Gender Double Standards in the Middle East | Maryam Salman | TEDxRCSIBahrain

It's time to stand up and reject the negative social elements of Arab culture. Maryam Salman, a medical student at RCSI Bahrain, discusses the Middle East's current double standards between men and women. She tackles the invisible societal chains that prevent women from reaching their full potential. This talk was heavily inspired by the book “We Should All Be Feminists” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. She quotes, “We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls, you can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful, but not too successful. Otherwise, you would threaten the man.” Maryam Salman, a Bahraini Muslim woman, is a medical student at RCSI Bahrain. Her passion for medicine blossomed when a family member, who was very close to her heart, survived brain cancer. Her experience in medicine fueled her passion for helping others - which is why she has been involved in numerous volunteering activities. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

[@mneerabdulla]

I’m so proud of you young lady. Thank you for sharing my story. 🥰

[@xxsnow_angelxx3953]

We need a complete re-wash of traditional concepts and start seeing individuals for who they are!

[@hihello-yv2tt]

If you aren’t from the Middle East, with all due respect don’t comment and involve yourself in something you have little knowledge of. Women in the middle east are generally not treated in the manner Western propaganda wants you to think. Maybe if you spend time in a visit to Qatar, Saudi, Oman etc and observe the locals or even better yet talk with the women from there, you can see the safest place to be in as a woman is the Middle East.

[@HimaniMohta]

So so beautifully said
❤️

[@GardeningWorld857]

What a brilliant talk!!

[@Concerned_one]

It’s a bad take.
She is so uninformed about the dangers of feminism has on society.

[@cescosa]

@@Concerned_onewhat dangers? Lmao

[@Concerned_one]

@@cescosa feminism has ruined western society. It collapsed birth rates and the white race is the brink of extinction because of it.
Depression has also skyrocketed ever since modern feminism took root.

[@hihello-yv2tt]

If you aren’t from the Middle East, with all due respect don’t comment and involve yourself in something you have little knowledge of. Women in the middle east are generally not treated in the manner Western propaganda wants you to think. Maybe if you spend time in a visit to Qatar, Saudi, Oman etc and observe the locals or even better yet talk with the women from there, you can see the safest place to be in as a woman is the Middle East.

[@cookingmadesimple5395]

I agree dear. We are coming for
This culture. And unfortunately with someone who is double standard 👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻

[@TheNov11979]

That is terrible how women are treated over there in the Middle East.

[@hihello-yv2tt]

If you aren’t from the Middle East, with all due respect don’t comment and involve yourself in something you have little knowledge of. Women in the middle east are generally not treated in the manner Western propaganda wants you to think. Maybe if you spend time in a visit to Qatar, Saudi, Oman etc and observe the locals or even better yet talk with the women from there, you can see the safest place to be in as a woman is the Middle East.

[@saadalmalki7638]

you aaaaaate

[@saadalmalki7638]

and left no crumbs pur

[@aqmohra4]

35 million subs yet only 8 comments lol

[@Peaceonearth2024]

Loved your talk! Thank you

[@العربيةالفصيحةالسهلة-س6س]

go watch MummyinAmman guys a brits living in jordan

[@juliettespoon]

❤️🦋thank you for sharing

[@XinlanWang]

非常好的演讲 收益良多❤🎉

[@easds7881]

Eyobe
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[@Concerned_one]

There is nothing wrong with motherhood and being pressured a little to be a mother.
Nature has made women to be caretakers and mothers and men to be protectors and leaders.
It’s just the way nature built us.

[@cescosa]

It’s the being pressured into it part which is wrong

[@Concerned_one]

@@cescosa all women need to be taught that motherhood is the sacred gift that is bestowed upon them by nature.
Men are also pressured by the societies they live in to be fathers, husbands, protectors etc. likewise there is nothing with women being pressured to be mothers much the same as men are pressured to be husbands and fathers.

[@partydave1067]

I just want to say, there are priviligies to be men, there are priviligies to be women.
Here is an example, while your example is unfair maybe (the teenager might have told his father while your friend did not notify him about it which might have angered him regardless, or maybe the father wasn't happy to host a group of teenagers/children or whatever there are several reasons for a man to be angered about her, taking things out of contexts to proove your agenda is slightly biased, wouldn't you agree?)
There are planty of scenerios where men ate getting blackmailed by women, and they cannot do anything about it, because if they do the sociaty may side with the women.
I'm not saying it happens all the time, but it happens far more then we'd like to.
Needless to mention, men get killed due to work, or sucidial far more then women...
There are planty of priviligies women get that men don't, instead of focusing on the priviligies that the other side gets try and appricating your own

[@bananajoe4940]

This kind of logic is very flawed. Obviously there are pros and cons to living as either gender your assigned at birth but you can't equate the loss of human autonomy to societal pressure in this scenario. When a woman cannot go outside, talk to friends, choose her partner, or even decide what clothes to wear, it makes simply existing tedious. Being falsely accused of SA towards a woman is unfortunate, but it is hypothetical in comparison to women who are already devoid of many rights. Many of the problems both men and women face are the result of a patriarchy where the man is pressured to be the "protector" and the "leader" above all else while the woman must be "pure" and the caretaker. These rigid expectations WILL make life unnecessarily harder and as a result, men create many of the struggles they face and women get treated as objects and trophies.

[@Concerned_one]

@@bananajoe4940give me an example of successful matriarchal societies that flourished and you would have none because they all got dominated by more powerful patriarchal societies because patriarchal societies are more aligned with the designs of nature.
A woman is designed to be mother and caretaker because that is how designed her to be.
A man is designed to be a protector and provider because that’s how nature designed him to be.
Saying that a man can act like a woman and that woman can act like man means you are propagating an idea that is totally against the designs of nature.

[@cescosa]

@@Concerned_oneaccording to you we should get rid of: cars, phones, electricity(controlled), houses, roads, shoes, clothes, money, governments, aeroplanes, medicine and etc.
all because it goes against nature.

[@Concerned_one]

@@cescosa what is the proof that all those things (except for airplanes) are against nature?
There are no prominent matriarchal societies that are successful that you can think of. All the successful societies in the world are all patriarchal because patriarchy is more in tune with nature.

[@johnDoe-vl1hv]

@@cescosadoesn’t sound like that to me

[@smallgirlservingaBIGGOD]

Thank you for this!👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 speak on it! Shed light to this issue!.