....some of the ladies like it too! Sad commentary, though, for that
culture--never been the oasis of equality and civil rights for anyone
there.
Laura
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> From: Barber, Kenneth L. <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Equal Rights (Middle East Style) (fwd)
> Date: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 7:14 AM
>
> oh, chester, you are so bad. i liked it, but, some of the ladies....
>
>
> Middle East Equality
>
> Supposedly Barbara Walters had done a story on gender roles in Kuwait
> several years before the Gulf War, and she noted then that women
customarily
> walked about 10 feet behind their husbands.
>
> She returned to Kuwait recently and observed that the men now walked
> several yards behind their wives.  Ms. Walters approached one of the
women
> for an explanation.  "This is marvelous, "she said.   "What enabled women
> here to achieve this reversal of roles?"
>
> The Kuwaiti woman replied, "Land mines.
>
>
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