taliban/burmingham

[Kelley]

At 09:53 AM 11/28/01 -0800, joanna bujes wrote:
>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

you're not quite back in birmingham.

kelley