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LotusSong -> Women Who Know Their Place! (8/5/2009 9:01:19 PM)
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The Afghani women may be oppressed, but they ain’t dumb.
Barbara Walters, of 20/20, did a story on gender roles in
Kabul, Afghanistan, several years before 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 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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