As I got older I realized that being a woman is tougher than I thought especially if you are a woman from Afghanistan or a woman of color, like Serena Williams, a famous tennis player. In America and Afghanistan, these women undergo so much pain, discrimination, and humiliation from the inequality in society that we are all surrounded by. The article in Poetry Magazine, Landays: Poetry of Afghan Women describes Afghanistan as one of the most challenging places in the world to be a woman and the author that wrote Citizens II, Claudia Rankine, delineates the harsh treatments that successful black women goes through day by day. Both authors teach that there are people that believe that a particular race or gender is superior to another, and segregation still exists…show more content… In the article Landays, written by Eliza Griswold, she discovers the poor treatment that women in Afghanistan is a serious issue. She witnessed many Afghan women being restricted and denied many of the same liberties that Americans take for granted every day. Throughout Eliza Griswold’s research she encounters a girl named Zarmina who set herself on fire as a sign of protest because the man she wanted to marry could not afford her. Eliza Griswold wrote, "This was a love story gone awry. Engaged at an early age to her cousin, she’d been forbidden from marrying him, because after the recent death of his father, he couldn’t afford the volver, the bride price. Her love was doomed and her future uncertain; death became the one control she could assert over her life" (lines 86-90). She notices elementary girls being sold like if there were cars at an auction and there was nothing they could do about it. Men would huddle in a circle to discuss prices while there little girls where home scared, not knowing what their fate was going to be with. It is unbelievable the way woman has no say to who they want to be marry because they did not have that right; being different. Love did not exist in this
