Friday, January 29, 2010

Here's a short article about the Pashtun men in Afghanistan...and their confused sexuality. VERY interesting.

5 comments:

Unknown said...

Wow.

Matt and Kimbre said...

The quote about the roles of women and boys near the end of the article is one I have heard from soldiers who served in Afghanistan.

M said...

Wow. I feel bad for the men AND women in that society. It appears that everyone is either confused, ostracized, or segregated.

The anecdote about the man getting his "unclean" wife pregnant was very interesting.

Caroline said...

Huh?!? I don't know quite what to think about this, although I have heard about this before, not sure from whom, maybe you? I agree with M's comments, sad for both men and women, sad that women are considered unclean. To be honest it makes me a feel sick, but it is hard to criticize too much, because to these people it is customary. What are their religious beliefs about procreation, marriage, and the nature of God? Do you know?

Kate said...

Sick. I think the women should be escape from the culture and go somewhere where they can have a better life and leave the nasty men to do their thing whenever and however they want -in doing so they will not reproduce and hopefully die off. Is that harsh?