What do men in a (true) repressive, patriarchal society fear the most?
I urge you to read it. Some of it is unintentionally humorous.
When you're done, check the highlights in flash traffic where, in accordance with Sharia law, the truth can only be unveiled.
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]]> In a report to the administration of President Mahmud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s Research Center of the Majlis (parliament) recently called the trend of more girls going to universities "alarming" and urged the government to stop it.Stop it! Stop it! You're unbalancing our unbalancedness!
The research center documented what it called a worrisome rise in the number of females to enroll in universities and other centers of higher education.
Alice: Curiouser and curiouser!
The report said that over the last two decades there’s been a 23 percent increase in the number of girls taking university entrance exams, with the number of girls who passed the tests nearly doubling -- to 65 percent -- over the same period.
Alice: I wonder if I've been changed in the night? Let me think. Was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is 'Who in the world am I?' Ah, that's the great puzzle!
The influential research center -- which has decision-making powers in both parliament as well as in government agencies -- also warned that the rise in female students could eventually lead to "social disparity and economic and cultural imbalances between men and women."
The Mock Turtle: Well, I never heard it before, but it sounds uncommon nonsense.
The report says the rise in female students has created other concerns, such as "securing university dorms and maintaining their [girls] physical security in confronting possible social perils."
The Mock Turtle:Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with, and then the different branches of arithmetic -- Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.
The Duchess: Tut, tut, child! Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
Shahla Shafigh, an Iranian-born women’s rights activist in Paris, tells Radio Farda that she believes the opposition to female students is ideological.
Eaglet/Ahmedinejad: Speak English! I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and I don't believe you do either!
"With the door of opportunity closed to most young girls, with all the control their families and others exert over them, young women are mostly going after knowledge and science to gain freedom and human dignity," Shafigh says. "And this is a good thing to happen in a country."
`Now, I give you fair warning,' shouted the Ayatollah, stamping on the ground as he spoke; `either you or your head must be off, and that in about half no time! Take your choice!'
But there are signs the government intends to act on the gender issue, including recent media reports suggesting there could be a change in textbooks based on "gender differentiation."
Alice: What is the use of a book, without pictures or conversations?
Last week, Zohre Tabibzadeh Nouri, who runs the government's office of Women’s Participation, told reporters in Tehran that "gender discrimination" will be implemented in certain sectors of the workforce.
But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
`Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.'
`How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
`You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'.
She added that the government must help women attain the kind of education and expertise suitable for them.
Suitable?! Suitable?!
Alice: You're nothing but a pack of cards!
Or, in modern Alice speak: Screw that! Power to my Iranian sisters!
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