Monday, April 25, 2011

Husbands first...

Got this one from my Dodappa.

Barbara Walters did a story on gender roles in Kabul, Afghanistan, several years before our involvement in the Afghan conflict. She noted that women customarily walked five paces behind their husbands.

She recently returned to Kabul, and observed that women still walk behind their husbands. Despite the overthrow of the oppressive Taliban regime, the women now seem to, 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 an 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."


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3 comments:

https://www.med-chemist.com said...

"very true".....interesting too.
But I do remember a few lines from the famous Dr.Raj song (film : Nyayave Devaru)..."kallirali mulle irali, naa modulu munnadave"...... ...might be true to some extent !.

siddeshwar said...

:)

Anonymous said...

Haha... Smart women. Good one :)