[Vision2020] Fw: walking

[Scott Dredge]

I beat Ron Force to the punch on this one...

http://www.snopes.com/humor/jokes/landmine.htm

-Scott

--- Pat Kraut <pkraut at moscow.com> wrote:

> I cannot resist sharing this with you all!
> 
> Subject: walking
> 
> 
> Barbara Walters of 20/20 (USA-ABC Television) 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. From Ms. Walters'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."
> 
> 
> 
> Lorraine Hudson
> 
>
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