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KARACHI: While most of Pakistani Twitter is losing it over the Ali Zafar accusations, there are the few that will restore your faith in humanity.

So before you let all the victim-blaming comments and tweets bring you down, read some of these and realise that they might be small in number but they are significant. Rome, after all, wasn’t built in a day.

1. Shut up and listen

All those saying that the victims should furnish the proof… ask yourselves in all honesty, how would anyone? Entire point of the #MeToo movement is to identify predators through corraboration of stories. That's why this 'too' is in it. #MeeshaShafi #AliZafar

— Adeel Shirazi (@adeelshirazi) April 20, 2018

2. Calling out the flaws in Ali Zafar’s defense

As a father of a girl, as a son of a mother and a father, as a brother of a sister, as the grandchild of grandparents, as a neighbor of a neighbor, as a friend of many friends, how could I ever offend anyone when I have some many reLaTiOnZzzz? #eatshit

— Rafaya Sufi (@r_sufi) April 20, 2018

3. Asking the right questions

what is a woman card and where do you get it issued from?

— Saba Imtiaz (@SabaImtiaz) April 19, 2018

4. Consent 101

It doesn't matter if she was wearing a burqa, a bikini, a skirt or a shawl.

It doesn't matter if it was her husband, if it was her boyfriend, if it was a stranger.

If she doesn't want you to touch her, if you still touch her, you are violating a boundary.

Understand that.

— Mahwash Ajaz (@mahwashajaz_) April 19, 2018

5. The updated version of a childhood joke

bolo pencil

sab mard? cancel

— ' (@maaltai) April 19, 2018

6. Shaming conspiracy theorists

Ali Zafar should hire this genius. https://t.co/B37DuGsvQj

— HK (@HassaanKahn) April 19, 2018

7. This sad reality

you could be oprah winfrey, beyoncé, or rihanna. you could be the most famous woman on earth sharing your story about sexual harassment, and there will still be dusty ass mediocre men saying you're doing it for cheap publicity and attention.

— Imaan Sheikh 🌈 (@sheikhimaan) April 19, 2018

8. Rebuttal

Meesha Shafi is also the mother of two children, wife to a husband, daughter of a mother. I don’t get this defense. https://t.co/yGstV4rh8B

— Benazir Shah (@Benazir_Shah) April 19, 2018

9. Preach, sis

Sad this must be said but: I believe Meesha Shafi, completely, entirely, without question. Trolls who think women lie for attention/are put on earth to tempt men into sin aren't worth my while but you you know who makes me ill? People who are trying to undermine her more subtly.

— Faiza S Khan (@BhopalHouse) April 20, 2018

10. The truth, ladies and gentlemen

This is why naming and shaming works. It takes away power, it damages reputation, it takes priveleged harassers to task where otherwise they are vindicated by due processes.

— Girls at Dhabas (@girlsatdhabas) April 19, 2018

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