[These women in a café] are typical of Syria’s urban middle classes. Successful working women, the main bread-winners for their families, they are strong, and they speak up for themselves.
Still, they feel that society is not ready for women like them.
“Men are scared of going out with an independent strong woman,” Laila told me. “They want a woman who won’t argue.”
Being scared to date an independent, strong woman is not Middle East specific. Besides, only recently have men in the West realized that it’s actually more rewarding to do so than date a dud.
The truth is, men everywhere will have to eventually put their masculine pride aside and MAN UP.
