“Peekaboo, I See You”: How India-Pakistan War Weaponized Misogyny — Nude Women, “Maal-e-Ghanimat” & War Patches

“War is men’s business,” Hector tells his wife Andromache in Homer’s Iliad. Centuries later, in Aristophanes’ comedy Lysistrata (411 BC), an Athenian magistrate dismisses a woman trying to end the war with the same words: “Just weave your web… War is men’s business!” Yet the four-day India-Pakistan war of May 2025 placed women at the … Continue reading “Peekaboo, I See You”: How India-Pakistan War Weaponized Misogyny — Nude Women, “Maal-e-Ghanimat” & War Patches