Afghan girls seek to embellish their world according to their own ideals. Their eye-catching dresses, pungent perfume and ostentatious styles seem inevitable. The girls evince keen interest in advertisement gimmicks and amorous films. The fashionable fetishes of modern age have captured their imagination to a large extent. Our children and teenage girls are highly susceptible to glamour of Hollywood, Bollywood, etc. deluding themselves about the lugubrious story of abortive love. After watching a love scene, a girl may cultivate friendship with her neighbor’s son seeking to walk and talk as her favorite actress.
After all, their egoistic attitudes and indifference towards their senile parents culminate in hot tussles. Although, they are not the stay of their parents’ old age and fly the nest when they mature physically, yet they do not falter to practice temerity and asperity in their domestic life. Some disregard their fathers who work up a sweat with doddering hands. A sense of egotism permeates Afghan families which precipitates aversion and domestic strife. How do the parents react to this bitter fact?
The parents rue nostalgically the simple life of old days. Their deplorable state, caused by the bizarre acts of their progeny, nettles them seriously. Since their children are deaf to their sage advice or supplication, they heap invective and hurl abuse upon their daughters. Moreover, the conservative parents believe that the eye-catching style of their daughters, such as mini-skirt and flamboyant dress, besmirches their reputation among their kith and kin. They give precedence to the traditional styles of clothing over the current fashion. They deem that their daughters break their moral and religious taboos via succumbing to the temptations of Western ways of clothing. Do their parents’ vitriolic attacks fetter them from their idealistic styles?
The girls’ parental rebukes are not cogent words for them. Their advices, with harsh tone, go in one ear and out the other. The plight, which hurts the parents’ feelings, continues unabated and their attempts to nurture religious feelings in their scions are fruitless. Seemingly, the girls remain adamant not to yield to their parents’ trenchant words, fractious behaviors or puissant persistence to dress up according to the taste of their old fathers or mothers.
It is a matter of great worry for the traditional parents who fail to hand down their own religious beliefs and moral norms to their daughters. They believe that media have jeopardized society’s moral norms. According to them, the eruption of immoral programs, inundation of foreign cultures and inchoate democracy threaten their kids and teens. The schism between religion and new generation widens with each passing day. Hence, our youths, including male and female, wander in the tortuous path of modern fashion and our moral values are on the verge of erosion.
The girls, particularly the urban residents, are badly attracted to the allure of foreign fashions – which outweigh their beliefs – on a scale that their elders’ advice cannot palliate the problem. The unchaste actresses, who lack moral sense, are perfect idols for many Afghan girls. Charlie Chaplin points out critical points in a letter to her actress daughter Zheraldin as, “Your body is covered only with a piece of silk. Because art can and will appear naked on stage, but to come back from there in wearing and cleaner …
But nothing and no one else in this world deserves to see even the nails of the feet of a girl. Nakedness is a disease of our time.
I am old and my words might sound funny. But me, your naked body must belong to one who loves Face your soul. It is not scary if your belief that is ten years from the time you go. Fear not – those ten years they will not sastaryat. But as it is, I want you to be the last person who is subject of the island of bare! …”
A woman can and should be beautiful – God designed her to be that way. Her skin, hair and other features were created to be soft and appealing, and her body was fashioned to be attractive and beautiful to men. A woman was designed to be attractive, and most women want to be beautiful. However, the physical side of beauty is just a small part of what makes a woman truly beautiful.
It’s the quality that elevates a woman from just hot. It’s in the way she walks, talks and presents herself. It’s the way she radiates from the inside, out. It’s her soul and her spark and that thing you just can’t put your finger on.
A physically attractive woman is one who dresses modestly. Our society teaches women to flaunt their physical attributes by displaying scantily dressed women on billboards, magazines and most other media outlets. Many women feel they must also dress this way to be considered attractive. This is not true. A woman dressed in a modest, feminine way is very attractive. She is not only attractive, she gains honor and respect from those who see her. A woman’s body is designed to be attractive and arousing to men, and when a woman is revealing too much of herself in public, she is stirring up the wrong kind of feelings and will attract the wrong kind of attention. A truly beautiful woman aims for respect in the way she dresses.