Ms. McFate stressed her success at getting American soldiers to stop making moral judgments about a local Afghan cultural practice in which older men go off with younger boys on “love Thursdays” and do some “hanky-panky.” “Stop imposing your values on others,” was the message for the American soldiers. She was way beyond “don’t ask, don’t tell,” and I found it heartwarming.
The Ottomans come off pretty good, too. What do you think of that, AI?
Saturday, October 27, 2007
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I don't know what AI thinks of that, although it may be as much a known known as a unknown known or known unknown. But I know what I think of that, and it is definitely a known known.
"Love Thursday on Planet Pepe". There goes a magnificent Sean Penn, Tim Robbins cinematic oeuvre.
Oeuvre ton cul mon petit...
Funny (peculiar) how certain anthropologists take the extreme We're Just Outsiders approach to data collection and fieldwork. Specifically, how the anthropologists don't interject and speak up on behalf of the abused boys who have to go out on Planet Pepe's Love Thursdays with their elders.
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