I am a Democrat, but this is ridiculous:
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…
…”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).”
I don’t know about donkeys but, apparently, having sexual relations with a horse can be deadly. Maybe this association with livestock and marriage is related to socially conservative people. Do you remember this choice exchange from the Alan Colmes radio show?
Alan Colmes: “You had sex with animals?”
Anti-abortion extremist, Neal Horsley: “Absolutely. I was a fool. When you grow up on a farm in Georgia, your first girlfriend is a mule.”
AC: “I’m not so sure that that is so.”
NH: “You didn’t grow up on a farm in Georgia, did you?”
AC: “Are you suggesting that everybody who grows up on a farm in Georgia has a mule as a girlfriend?”
NH: It has historically been the case. You people are so far removed from the reality… Welcome to domestic life on the farm…”
Colmes said he thought there were a lot of people in the audience who grew up on farms, are living on farms now, raising kids on farms and “and I don’t think they are dating Elsie right now. You know what I’m saying?”
Horsley said, “You experiment with anything that moves when you are growing up sexually. You’re naive. You know better than that… If it’s warm and it’s damp and it vibrates you might in fact have sex with it.”
I don’t know what is more disturbing: religious fanatics’ attitudes towards women, or religious fanatics’ attitudes towards Equidae. At least they are removing the offensive passages from the textbooks.
Oh my gawd!!! We’ve always said these right wing nut cases were fucked in the head.
These are the people who are so concerned with what we are doing in our bedrooms?? These are the same people denying our right to choice?
They need a sweift kick in the ASS.
or a swift kick from the ass.
I’m guessing that’s one of the risks you take. I wouldn’t know for sure; I didn’t grow up on a farm and I can’t imagine being that desperate to get off.
But then I’m not a republican — my pool of potentially willing human partners is probably a great deal bigger than his………
Sorry boo, but a swift kick from an ass just might be considered foreplay from that whackjob.
Sort of related in it’s craziness… Do you remember how it was actual law that a man could divorce his wife [I forget if it applied wife to husband] by txt messaging her three times “I am divorcing you” – I think it was in Malaysia?
I think that was overturned.
no, i missed that.
How many text messages did it take to cancel dinner and a movie?
established Islamic law — there’s a case in India where the man said “talaq” (Arabic for “divorce”) three times in his sleep, and fundamentalist clerics are now saying that he and his wife must separate for 100 days before they can remarry. Oh, and the woman has to be married and “divorced” by another guy in the meantime. (CNN story)
Oh, and AFAIK it’s only the man that can divorce the woman — not the other way around…
the animals make better companions as they complain less and are more loyal
In 35 years on this earth, my family and I have owned several dogs. I can say truthfully none of the dogs ever: assaulted me; hit me; cheated on me; cheated on me with my friends; dumped me; stole my child; or robbed me blind.
I cannot say the same about any of my past significant others.
but every once in awhile, they take a shit in the middle of the kitchen!
or on my goddamn bathroom floor…no woman ever did that to me.
an intuitive and intelligent fur pupdog, that he committed this function in the appropriate room.
A tactful suggestion regarding the appropriate fixture should bring an even more rewarding result next time.
Boo, wish I could say the same…
Yup. Sounds like my ex. He was into performance art.
So, let’s see if I’ve got this figured out:
(1) Men are expected to have sex with anything they can catch, including animals.
(2) Women are just a more annoying animal. So if you can catch one, you can have sex with it, whether it wants to or not.
(3) Women are not allowed to enjoy sex. If they have sex, they must suffer the consequences, including unwanted children.
(4) Men should be allowed to have all the sex they want without any consequences, because the penis roolz!
Goddess, just shoot me now!
Calling Henny Youngman!
PLEASE tell me you’re making this up.
susanw, I pride myself on having something of an imagination, but there are some things that even I cannot make up.
India has a proud tradition of wackiness that spans millennia!
Click the link.
good god. funny because it’s true. the horror.
for the most part –
Men are afraid of the power of women,
Whites are afraid of the power of colored people,
Religious fanatics are afraid of the Truth
the common denominator is fear and that is causing all our troubles – between the sexes, the races, the creeds, etc.
I’ll start the anti-fear brigade:
I’m a white lesbian female and I’m OK with men, colored people, all sexual preferences (w/ consenting partners) and all faiths (since they all lead to god anyway)
I’m not afraid! I’m not afriad of terrorists, I’m not afraid of republicans, I’m not afraid!!
You’re scary.
I know, but I use my power for good 🙂
Yeah, you say that now, but what happens when YOU become House Majority Leader?
You’re Cool!
Well said!
….lol….all I can say is I hope it was consensual!
That’s the problem. It can’t be consensual. There are no heifers, ewes, or jennies dewey eyed and daydreaming about a handsome, randy farmboy.
Sex with animals is treated like a joke because the man is seen to be degrading himself. We laugh at men so sorry and pathetic that they have sex with livestock. Not too long ago it was socially acceptable to make the same jokes (for the same reasons) about white men raping black women.
This is abuse. All predatory sex is abuse.
Using anyone as a masturbatory devise is abuse.
Your right it is abuse. I support animals rights. Including no more experimenting on them. But I did hear once of a dolphin that became amorous of his keepers.
link
We’re scared
How insulting!
Y’all missed the whole thing!!!
“…you’ll never catch the donkey being disloyal to his master…”
Donkeys be DemocRats.
The REAL question is…who’s the Dem Donkey’s REAL master?
Who the donkey being disloyal TO!!!???
HMMMMMmmmmmm….!!!
AG