{"id":5369,"date":"2023-09-18T17:51:06","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T17:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/bangladeshi-bowler-under-fire-over-misogynist-remarks\/"},"modified":"2023-09-18T17:51:06","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T17:51:06","slug":"bangladeshi-bowler-under-fire-over-misogynist-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/bangladeshi-bowler-under-fire-over-misogynist-remarks\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangladeshi bowler under fire over misogynist remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>A Bangladeshi cricketer was embroiled in controversy on Monday over misogynistic social media posts condemning working women, just days after making a brilliant international debut.<\/p>\n<p>Bowler Tanzim Hasan Sakib took the wicket of India captain Rohit Sharma with only his fourth delivery in international cricket when the neighbours met in the Asia Cup on Friday, before holding his nerve in the final over to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1776038\">secure victory for Bangladesh<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The resulting adulation for the 20-year-old, though, turned to scorn from women\u2019s rights activists and feminists after his misogynist social media posts came to light.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the wife works, the husband\u2019s rights are not ensured,\u201d Tanzim posted on Facebook last year. \u201cIf the wife works, the child\u2019s rights are not ensured. If the wife works, her elegance is damaged.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the wife works, the family is ruined. If the wife works, the veil is ruined. If the wife works, society is ruined.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Women form the vast majority of the workforce of the garment factories that have driven much of Bangladesh\u2019s economic growth in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>In another post, Tanzim warned men that their sons would not have a \u201cmodest\u201d mother if they married \u201ca woman who is accustomed to free mixing with her male friends in a university\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The comments provoked a backlash, with Paris-based feminist writer Jannatun Nayeem Prity pointing out that the Bangladesh team jerseys were made in factories mostly staffed by women.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel sorry for you that you don\u2019t consider your mother a normal human being,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Writer Swakrito Noman described the comments as \u201cdeeply offensive\u201d in a widely-shared Facebook post, demanding the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB question Tanzim and the player apologise.<\/p>\n<p>Journalist Mejbaul Haque added on Monday: \u201cThe status of such a distorted form of misogyny is unacceptable. No matter how big a star he is!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The BCB said it was investigating.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe issue came to our attention. We are looking into the matter,\u201d its cricket operations chief Jalal Yunus told <em>AFP<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Tanzim has played 12 first-class matches in his short senior career, after helping Bangladesh win the Under-19 World Cup in 2020.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Bangladeshi cricketer was embroiled in controversy on Monday over misogynistic social media posts condemning working women, just days after making a brilliant international debut. Bowler Tanzim Hasan Sakib took the wicket of India captain Rohit Sharma with only his fourth delivery in international cricket when the neighbours met in the Asia Cup on Friday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2023\/09\/182038274e06cb6.png?r=212056","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[192],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}