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Traditional Roles

Several years before the Gulf War, a female journalist did a story on gender roles in Kuwait. She noted that there it was customary for women to walk 10 feet behind their husbands.

After the war, she returned to Kuwait and was pleased to observe that now the men walked 10 feet behind their wives. She approached a woman at the airport and asked, "What enabled Kuwaiti women to achieve this role reversal?"

The Kuwaiti woman replied, "Land mines."



This news arrived on: 08/25/2008
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Posted Comments:

08-29-2008 11:56
wrote:

Everything old is new again

The first time I heard that joke it was set in Korea.The next time it was in Viet Nam.



08-29-2008 11:17
John U.K. wrote:

Traditional roles

Guessed it.
Yes Anna it is distasteful but I hope you stand up against jokes that are sexist against men as well. I assure you there are plenty of them. In fact, the feminist movement has swung the pendulum such that sexism against women tends to be considered an outrage while sexism against men barely raises an eyebrow (except when I see it!!!).



08-29-2008 10:06
Anna wrote:

Distasteful

I was so surprised to see such a distateful "joke" forwarded to my Inbox by a service that I actually enjoy receiving each day because of its light-hearted and "clean" content. Landmines are not funny...And there are other ways to humorously portray traditional roles of women in the world without using such a terrible image.



08-29-2008 08:48
aaron wrote:



good joke 6out of10



08-29-2008 08:44
sanjeevkumarnayak17@gmail.com wrote:

re: traditional roles

Boy, this isn't a joke. It only portrays how timid Kuwaiti men are. It also shows they still belong to the Stone Age and don't deserve a place in the modern civil society.




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