The Boys Who Stare
The Boys Who Stare — Maud Jaam maudjaam.blogspot.com[cite: 1] The Boys Who Stare By Sumair Ahmed Every day, in the school corridors, bazaars, and college gates of Pakistan's cities, girls walk past groups of boys who look at them in a way that is hard to describe but impossible to miss. It is not a glance. It is a stare that lingers, followed by whispers, laughter, and comments. Sometimes the comments cross every line of decency, reducing a girl to her body, her clothes, or her "type." Most people walk past this scene without a second thought, because it has become so ordinary. I decided to stop walking past it, and instead to watch, listen, and understand why it happens. An experiment in observation I made friends with two different groups of boys, chosen deliberately because they seemed to have different attitudes and backgrou...
