I was reading the BBC today and I came across an article that saddened me. It was about Pakistani women who have acid thrown on them by husbands or in-laws for various reasons. But the article focuses on a woman whose husband threw acid on her because she was too beautiful. I was very shocked and surprised by that statement. In the West, women are spending hundreds- maybe thousands- of dollars a year to be beautiful, and they are shunned if they're ugly. Meanwhile, in Pakistan, women are being permanently burned by caustic acid because they are beautiful. To make matters worse, the perpetrator is rarely brought to justice for his deplorable actions. Sure, the women can have surgery to fix their faces, but who can afford it? And besides, even if their faces were reconstructed, maybe they would just have acid thrown on them again. There is a price to being beautiful that people in the West don't have to pay, and unfortunately, it's one that Pakistani women pay too dearly.
You can read the article here.
