‘If Wife Works, Her Elegance is Damaged’: Bangladeshi Cricketer Tanzim Hasan Sakib Under Fire Over Misogynist Remarks – News18

Last Updated: September 18, 2023, 23:01 IST

Last Updated: September 18, 2023, 23:01 IST

Tanzim Hasan Sakib took the wicket of Rohit Sharma along with his 4th supply on debut. (AP Photo)

In one other publish, Tanzim warned males that their sons wouldn’t have a “modest” mom in the event that they married “a woman who is accustomed to free mixing with her male friends in a university”.

A Bangladeshi cricketer was embroiled in controversy Monday over misogynistic social media posts condemning working girls, simply days after making a superb worldwide debut.

Bowler Tanzim Hasan Sakib took the wicket of India captain Rohit Sharma with solely his fourth supply in worldwide cricket when the neighbours met within the Asia Cup on Friday, earlier than holding his nerve within the closing over to safe victory for Bangladesh.

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The ensuing adulation for the 20-year-old, although, turned to scorn from girls’s rights activists and feminists after his misogynist social media posts got here to mild.

“If the spouse works, the husband’s rights are usually not ensured,” Tanzim posted on Facebook last year. “If the wife works, the child’s rights are not ensured. If the wife works, her elegance is damaged.

“If the wife works, the family is ruined. If the wife works, the veil is ruined. If the wife works, society is ruined.”

Women kind the overwhelming majority of the workforce of the garment factories which have pushed a lot of Bangladesh’s financial progress in recent times.

But conservative patriarchal attitudes stay widespread within the majority Muslim nation.

In one other publish, Tanzim warned males that their sons wouldn’t have a “modest” mother if they married “a woman who is accustomed to free mixing with her male friends in a university”.

The feedback provoked a backlash, with Paris-based feminist author Jannatun Nayeem Prity declaring that the Bangladesh group jerseys had been made in factories largely staffed by girls.

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“I really feel sorry for you that you just don’t contemplate your mom a standard human being,” she added.

Writer Swakrito Noman described the comments as “deeply offensive” in a widely-shared Facebook publish, demanding the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) query Tanzim and the participant apologise.

Journalist Mejbaul Haque added Monday: “The standing of such a distorted type of misogyny is unacceptable. No matter how huge a star he’s!”

The BCB said it was investigating.

“The issue came to our attention. We are looking into the matter,” its cricket operations chief Jalal Yunus informed AFP.

Tanzim has performed 12 first-class matches in his quick senior profession, after serving to Bangladesh win the Under-19 World Cup in 2020.

(This story has not been edited by News18 workers and is revealed from a syndicated news company feed – AFP)

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