Think Americans are sexist? Look at this!

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-03-08 08:35pm

Yahoo wrote:

An Albanian man smokes a cigarette as his wife carries hay alongside the national road in near Elbasan, near the capital of Tirana February 24, 2003. In rural Albania, tradition dictates that women to do all the house chores with men never helping as this is seen to be a sign of weakness. REUTERS/Arben Celi

Wow.

DeadM · Post by **DeadM** » 2003-03-08 08:37pm

Yahoo wrote:

An Albanian man smokes a cigarette as his wife carries hay alongside the national road in near Elbasan, near the capital of Tirana February 24, 2003. In rural Albania, tradition dictates that women to do all the house chores with men never helping as this is seen to be a sign of weakness. REUTERS/Arben Celi

Lonestar · Post by **Lonestar** » 2003-03-08 08:37pm

Double wow. That's a crapload of hay.

Xenophobe3691 · Post by **Xenophobe3691** » 2003-03-08 08:37pm

Hey, at least it's better than in Saudi Arabia...

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-03-08 08:37pm

Darth Wong wrote:Think Americans are sexist? Look at this!
Yahoo wrote:

An Albanian man smokes a cigarette as his wife carries hay alongside the national road in near Elbasan, near the capital of Tirana February 24, 2003. In rural Albania, tradition dictates that women to do all the house chores with men never helping as this is seen to be a sign of weakness. REUTERS/Arben Celi
Wow.

Does the fact that I can't stop laughing at that picture make me a misogynist prick?

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2003-03-08 08:38pm

BOMB THEM!

Hamel · Post by **Hamel** » 2003-03-08 08:39pm

Cuuuuuurazy

I'd like to take a bat to that guys nuts. His facial expression angers me greatly

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2003-03-08 08:42pm

Well, if she was doing that in Saudi Arabia, she'd probably get stoned to death.

If I was that woman, I'd take the load I'm carrying and put it on his back. Then I'd take his cigarette and smoke it.

ArmorPierce · Post by **ArmorPierce** » 2003-03-08 08:42pm

Americans sexist? Perhaps... yes... having to cover your top is pretty sexist if you ask me

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2003-03-08 08:45pm

Darth Wong wrote:
Yahoo wrote:

An Albanian man smokes a cigarette as his wife carries hay alongside the national road in near Elbasan, near the capital of Tirana February 24, 2003. In rural Albania, tradition dictates that women to do all the house chores with men never helping as this is seen to be a sign of weakness. REUTERS/Arben Celi

Wow indeed.

The Duchess of Zeon · Post by **The Duchess of Zeon** » 2003-03-08 08:53pm

Darth Wong wrote:
An Albanian man smokes a cigarette as his wife carries hay alongside the national road in near Elbasan, near the capital of Tirana February 24, 2003. In rural Albania, tradition dictates that women to do all the house chores with men never helping as this is seen to be a sign of weakness. REUTERS/Arben Celi
Wow.

*sighs* Things like this lead to a great temptation to be angered greatly. Of course, it is Albania, which largely produces goatherds and really good small unit combatants and very, very little else, but.. *sighs* Oh well; that's definitely a country that could use some improvement.

On the plus side, when the improvement comes, it will definitely be decisive. In the Ottoman Empire men refused to work in factories for similiar reasons, so all factory workers were women at the turn of the century in the OE. Likewise in the Muslim world, more and more of their educated professionals are women.

The men have ridiculous honour concepts like this and leave the women to do all the work while they stand in the streets shooting guns into the air and shouting "Allahu Ackbar!" What this means, of course, is when opportunities do exist, despite the repressive social conditions, you'll actually find a majority of the people taking advantage of them to be women, who are used to having to do all the work anyway. It's a hopeful sign, at least.

Wicked Pilot · Post by **Wicked Pilot** » 2003-03-08 08:54pm

I hope he gets very bad sex, or none at all.

Nathan F · Post by **Nathan F** » 2003-03-08 09:00pm

ArmorPierce wrote:Americans sexist? Perhaps... yes... having to cover your top is pretty sexist if you ask me

Covering your top is so overrated it's not even funny. I think all females should not have to cover anything, that is, unless they and are not hot and flabby.

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2003-03-08 09:03pm

Well, it is Albania. A lot of other countries are like that too.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-03-08 09:06pm

That's just wrong on so many levels. Well okay really one, but it sounds better that way.

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-03-08 09:23pm

Darth Wong wrote:Think Americans are sexist? Look at this!
Yahoo wrote:
[sexist Albanian pig]Move your lazy ass woman i don`t have all day[sexist Albanian pig]

Post by **Kuja** » 2003-03-08 10:38pm

In rural Albania, tradition dictates that women to do all the house chores with men never helping as this is seen to be a sign of weakness. REUTERS/Arben Celi

Men helping to do work is a sign of weakness? That's a new one on me.

Hamel · Post by **Hamel** » 2003-03-08 10:41pm

I would love to shoot that man in the balls.

AylaKat · Post by **AylaKat** » 2003-03-08 10:44pm

Do they have Disco music in Albania? Because if they did, pictures like this would never exist.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-03-08 11:12pm

It's Albania people, sexism is the least of their problems.

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-03-09 02:50am

Admiral Valdemar wrote:It's Albania people, sexism is the least of their problems.

Yeah, this is a country where the best movies have titles such as "Plastic? What is plastic?"

Robert Treder · Post by **Robert Treder** » 2003-03-09 06:42am

Nice. Last I checked, Albania had the highest per capita cigarette consumption. And that's just one more useless fact for you.

What I want to know is, if this guy doesn't need to do any housework, why the hell is he hanging out with his wife?

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-03-09 06:59am

Robert Treder wrote:Nice. Last I checked, Albania had the highest per capita cigarette consumption. And that's just one more useless fact for you.

That's impressive, wounder how many percent of the GDP get spent on them all?

Robert Treder · Post by **Robert Treder** » 2003-03-09 07:06am

I don't know, that'd be interesting to find out.

I think my source for that factoid is the book The Material World (1995). But I can't be certain, since I can't find the book. Regardless, the figure would be from around '95, because whether or not it's from that book specifically, it is from around that time period. But I do trust my photographic memory to have the factoid right, it's just whether or not it remains true today that I don't know.

Just thought I'd try and justify my statement.

salm · Post by **salm** » 2003-03-09 08:50am

maybe they´re going to switch in 10 minutes? or, maybe not.

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