Wednesday, July 06, 2005

Smashed!

The class is about to start. The teacher is waiting for the last few to show up. He clicks on internet explorer (his laptop hooked to a projector) which navigates to CNNs homepage.
One of the major headlines totaly embarasses me:

"Honor" Rape: 5 Pakistanis Held






9 comments:

SR said...

Oh man. Did you guys have a discussion about this?

M K Abbas said...

well not as a class, but some of my colleauges did inquire what it was all about. I had to put the best sping I could, but how could one make this sound right. Beats Me!

Yawerite said...

I guess one can only play it down a touch but at the end of the day generalizations leave us little beyond justifications and explainations!

M K Abbas said...

ill call that face saving and a rather lame attempt at that too.

Rude Awakenings said...

Why did or would u even try making it sound right?

Sonia

SR said...

hope you didn't get one of those *weird* looks.. :|

M K Abbas said...

sonia I didnt mean to make the act it self sound right - that wasnt the idea. I just wanted to avoid a people developing yet another stereotype about home - which is so very common.

shaima - i didnt get one of THOSE looks - canadians dont generally give THOSE looks, unless you start talking how about gay marriage is just not right. Thats when someone of them could give you THAT look, but not all of them.

Rude Awakenings said...

I hear you.

Natasha said...

gosh that's so weird :S