Thursday, March 02, 2006
Kiss and Tell
A promenade on the arms of my ever loyal browser, and a blue moon at that, led to the Garden of Shima, and there, it was so lush and foresty...Beautiful vines scrawled along the length of the ground and up the sides of the brush, reaching towards images of blossoming flowers and a blue-blue sky.
Somewhere along the trip, there was a picture of Shima dancing, in Iran, wearing a very modestly cut dress and smiling at a man who could otherwise have been her father (Her father-in-law); pregnant, and nonetheless, sober.
However, she talks of Ghelyoon, which is the equivalent or worse than cigarettes; alcohol which is illegal and punishable by lashing at least 70 times; and above all, feminine skin.
Otherwise a sensible scene - IN AMERICA- this strangeness would be exactly the moment when my loyal browser and I suddenly squawked with confusion.
Is there something wrong with this post that Shima's put up? In any rational world, we would say yes, but again, Iran makes rationality a national crime. Why is it that a pregnant, "lokht" woman in terms of IRI law, so easily puts up her picture, pictures of her family (who probably don't know that she put the picture up), and then proceeds to explain that there was alcohol in country that daily whips, hangs, and rapes women who have displayed skin, drank alcohol, and danced with men?
When I compare this with my friends who go by pseudonyms, use fake pictures, and never ever mention a family member's real name LET ALONE POST THEIR PICTURES, it makes very little sense to see this.
It would make more sense if I could figure out what sort of hormones she was on while pregnant, and get ahold of them myself.
Somewhere along the trip, there was a picture of Shima dancing, in Iran, wearing a very modestly cut dress and smiling at a man who could otherwise have been her father (Her father-in-law); pregnant, and nonetheless, sober.
However, she talks of Ghelyoon, which is the equivalent or worse than cigarettes; alcohol which is illegal and punishable by lashing at least 70 times; and above all, feminine skin.
Otherwise a sensible scene - IN AMERICA- this strangeness would be exactly the moment when my loyal browser and I suddenly squawked with confusion.
Is there something wrong with this post that Shima's put up? In any rational world, we would say yes, but again, Iran makes rationality a national crime. Why is it that a pregnant, "lokht" woman in terms of IRI law, so easily puts up her picture, pictures of her family (who probably don't know that she put the picture up), and then proceeds to explain that there was alcohol in country that daily whips, hangs, and rapes women who have displayed skin, drank alcohol, and danced with men?
When I compare this with my friends who go by pseudonyms, use fake pictures, and never ever mention a family member's real name LET ALONE POST THEIR PICTURES, it makes very little sense to see this.
It would make more sense if I could figure out what sort of hormones she was on while pregnant, and get ahold of them myself.
