Just a Woman

Re: # 103
People like you should be castrated

Ref 104 & 105:

Thanks for your comments as these reflect someone`s personality. In this context, I give you an example of one person that he used to write articles and her wife used to give positive comments by different names against her articles even used to fight with the others like you. I am sure you got my point. You are favouring her and giving hot remarks, may be you are the same.

Anyhow, keep commenting but should be positive.

What can one say to people like itsme5588... apparently now how Pakistani working women dress (loose shalwar kameez with dopatta) is ``obscene``. The answer according to these fools is for women to sit at home...

Maybe he should try sending his burqah clad sisters and mothers... and see if they don`t get harrassed... these people have no shame.

`#106 by itsme5588 on June 3, 2007 10:06pm PT
In this context, I give you an example of one person that he used to write articles and her wife used to give positive comments by different names against her articles even used to fight with the others like you. I am sure you got my point. You are favouring her and giving hot remarks, may be you are the same. `

dude,....get ur head examined. thats all.

it`sme420

Look at yourself first why did that boy misbehave with you and why did he not do this thing with anyother girl?

You`re mom wasn`t in town you fucking git. Is that clear now? Get back to your wifebeating now...

I think the Jinnah quote is rather apt here personally. I don`t get why people are asking what it has to do with the rest of the article. The quote by our Quaid regarding women in Pakistan is a progressive one when you look at it. (I am not going for any arguments regarding Jinnah here) The attitude of these men, as well as the ones where Aisha works on the other hand, is far from it. And it is sad the way this is minimized by some, because it is minimizing attitudes that give way to idiots running after women khhule `aam maiN, and attacking them. This unfortunately has been a distasteful part of life in Lahore (and throughout Pakistan) for far too long.

#110 Ms. Ana

The quote can only be considered ``apt`` if it is meant to draw attention to the irony of that statement when compared with the prevailing sad reality narrated in Ms. Aisha`s own animated style.

Thank you.

Which was precisely my point, if I failed to make it.

Thank you for being so patronizing.

#112 Ms. Ana

Kindly do not make light of my very real, sincere, and warm regards for you - of which I have never made any secret over the past two years, if only in my own peculiar way.

I am not now nor ever have been patronizing to you in this nick or any other! In fact, if I remember accurately, it was YOU who once assumed that particular attitude by trying to impress simple janitorial people with your vast knowledge of the Spanish language.

I am sure you will reconsider your positions on such matters by the time you make your next visit to these hallowed halls of chowk...

...perhaps sometime within the next six months, based on your recent track record?!

Thank you.

And if you have decided to grace us with your visits on a more frequent basis - let me take the opportunity to say - welcome back home!

#113 (add-on)

A side issue, I hope you had an opportunity to read my i-log Star over Bethlehem, (especially its footnote) which was posted on December 25, 2006.

Do let me know if you missed it - so I can repost it on my interactor`s page.

Thank you.

#37 Hamidm2

[ please feel free to post all the ...pictures you want ]

Sorry, my dear - an onslaught of janitorial duties made me overlook your post. As always, your wish must be considered my command. However, since a picture is worth a thousand words (or so) - I would like to instead post the following recent news item which ought to invigorate, stimulate, and perhaps even titillate you! :)

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A new, global tribute to Gandhi
5 Jun, 2007 l 0045 hrs IST
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
NEW DELHI: Brand Gandhi is about to get bigger on the global stage. As many as 114 UN member-countries joined hands on Monday to support India`s resolution to declare Mahatma Gandhi`s birthday on October 2 as the `International Day of Non-Violence`.

The move to get the international community to pay tribute to Gandhi`s ideology was a follow-up to the Satyagraha conference organised by the Congress early this year and a subsequent campaign launched by the government.

Speaking at the conference, titled ‘Peace, Non-Violence and Empowerment — Gandhian Philosophy in the 21st Century’, Congress president Sonia Gandhi had called for steps to get the Mahatma’s birthday marked as the International Day of Non-Violence.

Anand Sharma, minister of state for external affairs who was Sonia’s point person for the conference, welcomed the outpouring of global support to the campaign. ‘‘It’s great to see the global response to the declaration adopted at the Satyagraha conference.’’

Sharma, who was confident that the resolution would be adopted at the UN, said it also reflected the respect Gandhi commands universally and the enduring relevance of his philosophy.

After a resolution was adopted at the Satyagraha meet, Sonia wrote to UN secretary general Ban Ki-Moon requesting him to make it a UN declaration. It was followed up by a similar request by PM Manmohan Singh to the UN chief and letters by the two to president of UN General Assembly Sheikha Haya Rashed Al Khalifa.

Singh and Sonia also wrote to several world leaders, including Nelson Mandela, British PM Tony Blair, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Spain’s PM Jose Luis Rodriguez and South African President Thabo Mbeki to secure support.

Beejay,

If I failed to do so the other time, let me make myself clear: If I enjoy using my Spanish with those who speak Spanish, it should not be taken as patronizing to those of you who do not speak it. It is no different from us speaking our languages to one another in the presence of those who do not understand NOT because we are taking on a patronizing attitude, but because we are comfortable with it.

And if you have forgotten, let me remind you. I go by ana here. Not Ms. Ana, not lady, or anything else. If I wanted to be addressed in any other way, I would have indicated that by my nick here. No one else may think so when you address them as Ms. whoever, but I do find your constant use of that patronizing, especially when I have asked you before to refrain from doing so.

I have never really left Chowk, but thanks for the welcome all the same. It is healthier not to grace my presence here on a continual basis.

#116 Ana

Ms. Ana, I use terms like ``Ms.`` and ``Ma`m`` as terms of respect. It is true that in the past I have called you with the more informal ``Ana``. However, that was then - when you were a regular denizen of this here insane asylum! :)

Since then, you have made a firm decision to absent yourself except for guest appearances - like the current one. Therefore, it is only fair that you should be accorded all the courtesies due a guest! I hope you understand.

More important, I need to know your response to #114.

Thank you.

`#115 by bjkumar on June 4, 2007 7:31pm PT
A new, global tribute to Gandhi `

OUCH!!!! praising gandhi on the thread of mrs. wanna be jinnah.

bj, you are in for some serious verbal diarrhea on gandhi and jinnah from the husband wife combo. don`t tell me u weren`t warned!!!!!

#118 Devkant

Jo kahee gayee na mujh se
Wo zamana - keh raha hai
Ki fasana - ban gayee hai
Meri baat - chalte, chalte!

`#119 by bjkumar on June 4, 2007 8:40pm PT
Jo kahee gayee na mujh se
Wo zamana - keh raha hai
Ki fasana - ban gayee hai
Meri baat - chalte, chalte! `

wah ustad wah....kya baat kahi hai. aaj ka din ban gaya!!!!!!