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#1 Donkeys Better Than Wives, Kids' Book Says
Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 5:11 pm
by frigidmagi
Oy
NEW DELHI (April 4) - A textbook used at schools in the Indian state of Rajasthan compares housewives to donkeys, and suggests the animals make better companions as they complain less and are more loyal to their "masters," The Times of India reported Tuesday.
"A donkey is like a housewife ... In fact, the donkey is a shade better, for while the housewife may sometimes complain and walk off to her parents' home, you'll never catch the donkey being disloyal to his master," the newspaper reported, quoting a Hindi-language primer meant for 14-year-olds.
The book was approved by the state's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party government but has sparked protests from the party's women's wing.
State education officials in Rajasthan, a western state known for its conservative attitude toward women, said people should not be upset by the comparison, the paper said.
"The comparison was made in good humor," state education official A.R. Khan was quoted as saying. "However, protests have been taken note of and the board is in the process of removing it (the reference)."
Hey I think you Brits missed a couple guys when you were building gallows and handing out nooses. Very Sloppy, most unBritish.
#2 Re: Donkeys Better Than Wives, Kids' Book Says
Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 9:07 pm
by SirNitram
frigidmagi wrote:Hey I think you Brits missed a couple guys when you were building gallows and handing out nooses. Very Sloppy, most unBritish.
Sodding backsliders. At least they're laying out their plans to keep their regressives to goats. THat should limit reproduction, or just make it easy to identify the freakish, centuarian offspring.
#3
Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 10:28 pm
by Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman
Well at least the book didn't say donkeys are better SEX PARTNER than housewives
#4
Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 1:51 am
by Narsil
Hey I think you Brits missed a couple guys when you were building gallows and handing out nooses. Very Sloppy, most unBritish.
*takes out pen-light thing* Would you please look at this for a few seconds. *FLASH* You did not see any British mistakes of any kind.
#5
Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 1:53 am
by frigidmagi
*sigh* Dakarne don't TGOD in N&P.
#6
Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 1:58 am
by Narsil
More seriously: This is to be expected as we British were rather mysogynistic back in the days that we were in control of India. However, we hung the people who burned women, this is just insulting them. While I don't hold much truck with political correctness, and think everyone is entitled to a joke, this isn't exactly what I'd call funny.
#7
Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 2:03 am
by frigidmagi
My thought is if the book had compared husbands to say... Pigs, they wouldn't have laughed.
#8
Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 8:26 pm
by Josh
frigidmagi wrote:My thought is if the book had compared husbands to say... Pigs, they wouldn't have laughed.
Well of course not! You can't insult the natural order of male dominance!
...fucking sheesh.
#9
Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 2:28 am
by Narsil
frigidmagi wrote:My thought is if the book had compared husbands to say... Pigs, they wouldn't have laughed.
I would have. But I am very easy-going in the grand scheme of things, and can actually laugh off being called a fat bastard.