A journalist did a story on gender roles in Kabul (Afghanistan), several years before the Afghan conclict. She noted that woman customarily wlaked 5 paces behind their husbands.
She recently returned to Kabul and observed that woman still walk behind their husbands. From the journalist´s vantage point, despite the overthrow of the Taliban regime, the woman now seem to walk even further back behind their husbands and are happy to maintain the old custom!.
The journalist approched 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 the journalist straight in the eyes, and without hesitation, said: "LAND MINES".
Moral of this story: read the titel!
2007-07-04
13:09:27
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