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March 06, 2007

Intelligent design - or survival tactics?

You tell me. My eldest daughter forwarded this to me, and I am cheating I know, but I am also posting it here!

Not very tasteful, but . . .

Barbara Walters of Television's 20/20 did a story on gender roles in Kabul, Afghanistan, several years before the Afghan conflict. She noted that women customarily walked 5 paces behind their husbands.

She recently returned to Kabul and observed that women still walk behind their husbands. From Ms. Walter's vantage point, despite the overthrow of the oppressive Taliban regime, the women now seem to walk even further back behind their husbands and are happy to maintain the old custom.

Ms. Walters approached one of the Afghani women and asked, "Why do you now seem happy with the old custom that you once tried so desperately to change?"

The woman looked Ms. Walters straight in the eyes, and without hesitation said, "Land Mines"

MORAL OF THE STORY: BEHIND EVERY MAN IS A SMART WOMAN

Personally I think that in a few more years the Afghan problem will have resolved itself thanks to a serious overload of maschismo coupled with a suicidal belief in the superiority of the male Afghani!

Posted by The Gray Monk at March 6, 2007 06:26 PM

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