Can your wife (you womenfolk) do this?

[underpants]

A boy walks with heavily laden donkeys at a brick factory in New Delhi in an undated file photo. 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. (Kamal Kishore/Reuters)

"Loyal" donkeys better than wives, says textbook

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - 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.

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"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.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060404/od_nm/india_books_dc_1

[GCP]

1. So if her dowry doesn't get paid it's OK to set her on fire - No?

There's no words for this.

[LaurenG]

2. Oh no

Women are to be as loyal to their "masters" as a donkey is to them. I see great strides are being made toward womens rights all over the world .:shrug: :eyes:

[OzarkDem]

16. Looks like India is way behind

When will third world countries learn?

Its been proven time and again that any country that doesn't treat its children well or its women equally will never have a healthy economy or stable government.

IMHO India's problem is its caste system, which treats women well at higher levels of the social structure, but poorly at lower levels.

[sendero]

3. No....

... but then my wife can do things those donkeys cannot. And frankly, donkeys are not known for their un-complaining nature, and my wife rarely complains.

My wife, I think I'll keep her :)

[undeterred]

4. Talk about some nice asses

Those aren't.

[boobooday]

5. What else is the donkey better at?

Eh, you sexist creeps?

[underpants]

13. *

I meant the subject line only to draw attention to this and to satire how ridiculous the whole thing is.

:hi:

[lukasahero]

15. I think that's understood

however, as a woman, it does hurt to know there are people who not only believe this but are teaching it to their sons and daughters. Please don't take it personally if women here lash out at the article.

Another day, another chance to have the world tell you you're a possession, a thing, worth less than an animal (no insult to animals intended). :(

[boobooday]

24. You said that very well n/t

[boobooday]

23. I hope you know I was aiming at the textbook writer

I didn't mean to shoot at you . . . maybe it was the beer at breakfast . . . you kind of looked like a quail from the corner of my eye . . .

[underpants]

25. LOL

:bounce:

[antonialee839]

19. The donkey is obviously a better author.

[Frustratedlady]

6. Where's the jackass that wrote that textbook? eom

[acmavm]

7. You know, I recently worked for a guy who came over from

India in the late 60s. I am female. He was an ass. I have a family to support, I seriously needed a job. I quit.

Does that tell you something?

[ET Awful]

8. This just in . . . Neal Horsley writes Indian text book . . .

:evilgrin:

[jmowreader]

12. I was thinkin' the same thing...

I'm like, "didn't Horsley marry his mule once?"

[TalkingDog]

9. Kick his ass? Sure n/t

[BlueEyedSon]

The sex might be good, but the cooking.... not so much.

[gollygee]

10. First of all, I must say

I know people from India who are very nice and don't have that attitude. So please let's not stereotype Indians here :)

But whoever wrote that damn book is an ass.

[underpants]

14. Of course

:hi:

[Katherine Brengle]

11. Ugh...

Gross.

Of course, I find it amusing that we can have a reasonable reaction to misogyny, as long as it is about a different culture, and not our own.

[xultar]

17. Those poor donkeys.

:cry:

[Beausoir]

18. That's what I felt, too. n/t

[Triana]

20. That's what I thought - abused animals.

Women, too. I swear this race will NEVER evolve.

Ever.

[Heidi]

21. It depends . . .

Do those two loads of bricks weigh more, or less, than two cases of beer?

[seabeyond]

22. can you say

fuck you.... lol lol teasing. hey i read that yesterday. this morning popped in my head again, guess what my words were. fuck you. asshole males is all i can say

what ever male that is offended cause i say asshole male, tough shit. those that think of women as my husband does with me not talking to you. and you know it. hubby doing man work other night, and i jsut get so turned on, i say, look at all the man work you do my wonderful girlie man (arnie). we giggle.

ya ya ya assholes all around

[bunkerbuster1]

26. Not a donkey. A MULE!

In Georgia, anyway.

http://www.newshounds.us/2005/05/06/bizarre_sex_habits_of_the_extreme_rightwing.php

Last night, anti-abortion extremist Neal Horsley was a guest on The Alan Colmes Show, a FOX News radio program. The topic was an interesting one - whether or not an internet service provider should allow Horsley to post the names of abortion doctors on his website. Horsley does that as a way of targeting them and one doctor has been killed. In the course of the interview, however, Colmes asked Horsley about his background, including a statement that he had admitted to engaging in homosexual and bestiality sex.

At first, Horsley laughed and said, "Just because it's printed in the media, people jump to believe it."

"Is it true?" Colmes asked.

"Hey, Alan, if you want to accuse me of having sex when I was a fool, I did everything that crossed my mind that looked like I..."

AC: "You had sex with animals?"

NH: "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."

[Cocoa]

27. especially if you're an ass man

[BlueEyedSon]

28. ba-da-BOOM!

"I'm here all week folks!"