Outside Reading, Week 2, Post B

Wow. Just wow. Mariam, you take so much crap, yet you do nothing about it? This is getting absolutely ridiculous. After being lied to by your father and being sold into marriage with a man who only wants you for your cooking skills, you still are submissive to a man's will? You need to man up and act like you have a pair (even though biologically speaking, you don't). You are the best wife that you can be. Despite being abused every day and essentially being forced into slavery, you still strive to cook the best meals possible and keep the house tidy. Why? Does Rasheed ever notice? No, he is an arrogant and unlovable husband. He simply nitpicks everything that you do and then takes advantage of you at every opportunity. And then, on top of all of this, he claims that he is "old-fashioned" and makes you wear a burqa, yet he flirts with other women in the city and looks at porn! How do you put up with this? He doesn't deserve you.
Probably the worst offense that Rasheed has committed was accusing you of ruining your son. How dare he! It was not your fault in anyway that you had a miscarriage. Rasheed is just a generally negative person and is taking it out on you. He is not only assaulting you, but the entire female gender.
However, throughout all of this abuse, there is a lesson to take away. Despite having fewer possessions and lower quality of life with Nana, you were still happier than you are with Rasheed. Nana cared for you and loved you and tried her best to provide for you, but all you did was reject her and claim that you wanted more possessions. But now that you have all these possessions, you realize that it was your family that gave you happiness, not items. I guess the moral would be "The grass isn't always greener on the other side. In fact, sometimes it's brown."

-Tom