Who can relate?!
I had never met anyone like him. All the six-year-old boys I encountered at Islamic Sunday School paled in comparison to this dreamy, adventurous Disney caricature.
Yes, Aladdin is the harrowing protagonist and he is the hero as it relates to defeating Jafar. But when you look at the film objectively , you can see how Aladdin – like all of us – is a flawed human being. Namely...he lies, and he’s OK with it — until he gets caught. I was in my early 20s – a perfectly marriageable age in the South Asian/Muslim world – when I started dating the guy I would affectionately call ‘H’. I thought he was my soul mate. Aside from being aesthetically pleasing , he and I were on similar career paths and he met the one requirement my Pakistani mother had: he was Muslim. Because he presented himself as this “perfect” Muslim , I looked up to him — though you could just argue that I looked up to him because he was 6’1”.
When I noticed his eyebrows looked significantly different one day, I asked if he’d gotten them done. He said no – even though I knew they were clearly groomed compared to the day before. I let it go...until a few weeks later when he had to get his chest waxed for an acting gig. As I’m filling out his client information sheet, I notice an area dedicated to previous visits. What was written? Eyebrow wax. “It’s OK”, I thought. “He just wanted to appear manly, I guess.
Though he fabricated information and practiced gaslighting frequently, I continued to stay in the relationship – and justified his dozens of mistruths – even after his ex-girlfriend emailed me with a warning about his tendency to lie. Yes, you read that correct. His *ex* contacted me to warn against continuing the relationship.
In the film, Jasmine’s father, the Sultan, uses the go-to parental tactic of emotional guilt to get Jasmine married by indirectly referencing his own death: “I’m not going to be around forever, I just want to make sure you’re taken care of.” My mother doesn’t have a palace, but she, too, has said something similar over the years.
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