Afghan Boys Are Prized, So Girls Live the Part

[Anonymous]

This is mentality of extolling boys is so archaic - maybe that's why they've been in war for the past three centuries. Afghanistan will never evolve into the 21st century.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/21/world/asia/21gender.html?pagewanted=3&_r=1&hp

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is mentality of extolling boys is so archaic - maybe that's why they've been in war for the past three centuries. Afghanistan will never evolve into the 21st century.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/21/world/asia/21gender.html?pagewanted=3&_r=1&hp

You know what they'd say, right? It's the fault of the girls. Also, I don't think they want to evolve into the 21st century because *gasp* that would mean women having more rights. Man, something seriously needs to change over there.

[Anonymous]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albanian_sworn_virgins

although the practice nearly died out under Hoxha, it is making a comeback -- in the decline of the Albanian state in the late 1990s (pyramid schemes) the old social order came back in the north, which is to the rest of Albania the same way West Virginia is to the rest of America.