taliban/burmingham

[joanna bujes]

At 12:14 PM 11/28/2001 -0500, you wrote:
> >Am I the only person out there that thinks forcing the Afghan government to
> >include women is a profoundly dumb idea?
>
>
>roll it back to 1952 or so. imagine you're in Birmingham.

Not quite comparable. Feminism imposed by an imperialist power in one of 
its "colonies" thends to have the opposite effect--even though people 
"know" better. It feels like an attack on their identity--at least 
according to Fannon.

Joanna