Karachi — A local resident expressed mild but persistent disappointment this week over what he described as a long-standing shortage of “unexpected narrative turns” in stories shared by his female friends.
The man, identified as Abbas Jamal, raised the issue during a routine phone call with a friend, saying that while he remained generally satisfied with his social circle, he felt that certain categories of lived experience were “chronically underreported”.
According to the friend, Hammad Akhlaq, Jamal sounded reflective rather than upset. “He wasn’t angry…” Akhlaq said. “…’t was more of a quiet realization that some people get exposed to a wider range of stories than others, and he might not be one of them”.
A third individual who overheard part of the conversation due to a phone line error said the discussion appeared to revolve around curiosity rather than grievance. “It sounded like he was talking about narrative imbalance,” the individual said. “Not demands. More like… missed opportunities for interesting anecdotes.”
Jamal later clarified through acquaintances that he did not expect his friends to alter their behavior, only their storytelling. “People leave out details all the time…” one associate paraphrased. “He feels some details are left out more consistently than others”.
Upon learning the fascinating reflection of Mr. Jamal, MIT professors hurriedly put together a crack team of study studiers who conducted a study which revealed results that “…males who are exposed to mild homoerotic stories by their female friends are less likely to cause harm to the world…”.
The study states that men or boys who heard about such truthful narratives from their chromosomal opposite friends spent a considerable time going over details about those narratives, and spent less time plotting against females generally. The research team that was led by Dr. Ijaz Murad also made other important discoveries and according to Dr. Murad, “…if women were only truthful when providing accounts of even ‘it almost happened once…‘, the world would see a steep decline in wars, famine and other diseases”. He added that there’s a direct connection between decisions that women make and everything that happens in the world. Dr. Murad stressed that “…this probably is the easiest way the World can be saved if women weren’t so up tight about it. I urge them to live a little”.
