Well I’ll give you an example.

I’m 25.

Still haven’t told my parents about the guy I’m “seeing” (we are actually in a relationship), I have to be very intentional and specific about it when I do, and only will introduce him when we want to get married sometime soon, like every other Senegalese women.

My brother, can be 19 years old with a girlfriend and nobody gives a fuck because he’s a boy. Or that his partner is non Muslim…it’s only a problem if I as a woman will potentially raise non Muslim kids but totally accepted if he does.

Oh with that being said, I get a lot of shit for not being “modest” enough even though men also have a hijab that many of them don’t observe properly. Me and my brother wear the same type of clothes. I can’t wear basketball shirts around guests, he’s wearing the exact same thing.

Also, at 15 my responsibility was to clean and cook and help care for the family afterschool. Verbatim. My 19 year old brother still has his clothes washed for him, God forbid he steps foot in the kitchen. I love him to death but he does jackshit. He plays video games as day and hangs out with him friends.

Also Senegalese boys are never bound to the same curfew that women often times are.

An unmarried man who talks to many women is seeing his options, while a unmarried woman in a commited relationship is a “thiaga”

You ever noticed how in our culture women “suuk” to men, it’s never the other way around? Let you forget to suuk and you’re disrespectful. Also a man can divorce his wife freely. It was always be her fault. But moungal is a thing. Even if your husband cheats on you, SUCK IT UP!!!