[Vision2020] Fw: walking

[Pat Kraut]

I didn't think it was true I thought it was funny!
Goodness! Do you take everything in life so seriously??
PK


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Dredge" <sdredge at yahoo.com>
To: "vision2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 6:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Fw: walking


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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