Oh My Mountain Homies

So, like, you know, my bitch takes orders: pizza, beer, love--in just about that order.

Never a peep.

No problem.

But someone sez, man, that ain't right, I say f' 'em if they can't take a joke.

I mean what's the world coming to: she's submissive and I'm a mean bast'd and don't need no wrinkled old fingers wagging at me. Leave me and mine alone. This is the way it's been for a while, the way it's going to be for a while longer, and, really, ain't nobody's business but my own.

Now then, let me take my coffee and Internet news in peace . . . . .

ISLAMABAD- A Baloch tribal lord caught the upper house by surprise here on Friday when he came forward defending the honour killing of five women in Balochistan saying ‘these are our norms which should not be highlighted negatively’.

Baloch Senator Israr Ullah Zehri while aggressively interrupting Senator Bibi Yasmin Shah, who condemned the brutal act of burying alive five women in Balochistan on charges of ‘love marriage’, said it was part of their traditions, which, he said, should not be negatively highlighted.

Reference: Aziz, Khalid. "Senator defends honour-killing." The Nation, August 30, 2008: http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/Politics/30-Aug-2008/Senator-defends-honourkilling

Anne will, I hope, tell you I'm not that bad--and she's not that bad either, but you see how it goes as modern sensibilities creep into dens of erstwhile mountain men (or my goin'-ghetto inner child).

This is not a thing restricted to Islam.

Start, perhaps, with the abduction of the Sabine women (Wiki ref.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_of_the_Sabines)

Move along to the beginning of the end of a comfortable Chauvanism with Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House (For the gist: http://records.viu.ca/~johnstoi/introser/ibsen.htm).

However there may be this deeply imbedded in the Baloch issue, and that is the deeply felt "beginning of the end" of an unfettered and long developed tribalism--i.e., the cultural anhilation of traditional ways, including one's perhaps enjoyable or perceived necessary treatment of women as brood mares, cattle, and slaves.

Yo, whatever, sounds good to me--it's just not going to go over well with the little lady and her thoroughly 21st Century sisters.

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