The Perpetual Tale of Women and Zucchini

Thu, 22 Nov 2007 09:41:00 GMT

[Note: both O & D are girls]

O: This is absurd! Only 6 seats reserved for women in the parliament!

D: I think this is better…

O: Hello! How come?

D: Don't get me wrong, I'm with women, but they can't do anything.

O: If they can't do anything, then why did they refuse Tujan Faisal's candidacy?

D: Well, they are only capable of screwing thins up

O: Wait a minute… who screwed things up? The former parliament screwed things up and how many women were there? It consisted mostly of men, so blame it on them.. There should be more women in the parliament

D: What are they going to do in the parliament? Stuff zucchini?

O: Why, what… Zucchini! How can you say that? They weren't given enough chance in the first place, give them a chance and then judge them

D: Tell me one good thing women did (on the country level)

O: I'll tell you what they did. Who brought the issue of honor crimes to light? Rana Husseni, a woman. Who uncovered the grisly scandal of negligence in that orphanage some years ago and saved the children there? A woman as well (I forgot her name, I think it was Hana or something similar).

D: Yeah, children tortured by women

O: What about honor crimes? Those women were killed by their fathers and brothers

D: Well, you have a point there

O: The point is this is so unfair. And you are a misogynist!

[D laughs]

[Here W comes in]

W: Unfair to who?

O: to women

W: We do that to ourselves because we are the ones who voted

O: Ok, we voted, but what about women whose husbands decide their choice of candidates?

Anyhow... For some reason this reminded me of Naseem's series titled: Sipping Coffee at the Salon Seyasi, I hope the day won't come when we read something like: "Stuffing Zucchini at the Salon Siyasi".

Perhaps I should rename my blog. The Zucchini Zone. Isn't that what we're good for after all?

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The Perpetual Tale of Women and Zucchini