Can’t… stop… laughing…

Is it wrong to have such a response to this post at SUZANNE’s place?:

“Filth and degradation in sex-ed class” – that could be a chapter in a Dr. Gonzo book called “Fear and Loathing at Our Lady of Perpetual Indignance High (A Savage Journey into the Heart of the Catholic School System)“, BWAHAAA!

UPDATE (Thursday): Feminists, no doubt possessed by demons, weigh in.

Shorter Hamid Karzai:

“April Fools, girls!!”:

An effort by ministers from the United States, Canada and other members of the 42-nation coalition fighting in Afghanistan to put an optimistic face on the war’s progress came close to collapse yesterday when Afghan President Hamid Karzai was publicly accused of supporting a law that dramatically limits the rights of women. [...]

According to United Nations organizations that have seen it, a law backed by the Karzai government would legalize rape within marriage and would forbid women from going to the doctor or leaving their home without their husband’s protection.

Womens’ rights are a joke in Afghanistan, it seems. We’ve spent over 7 years of blood and treasure to free the Afghani people, especially the women, from the tyranny of fundamentalist religion. And the punch line is that unless we plan on staying there forever, the Karzai government’s survival depends on acquiescing to those very forces we’re fighting. It starts with state-sanctioned rape: it’s too unutterably depressing to imagine where it might end.

There are courageous Afghan women fighting for their rights — here’s what they have to say about this odious manouevre. And here’s how we can help them.