Gifts of Thought

The context was a discussion about how women are treated here (3 million women here victims of violence per year Trevor Phillips report),and how women are treated in other places in the world,far far less well than that.There was an article on women in Arab countries.Someone wrote a very very funny reply to the article which I shall post here as it is sooo funny.I had sent it to Muse to make him laugh. "Oh Dear, Poor old Ali Eteraz. The questions he raised are apparently "important" but you have bravely pointed your little wand at them and crying "Mulier Islamica non disputanda! Discursus Occidentale Deleto! Foucaulto patronus invoceo!", and cleverly reduced them to a little heap of dust...Ah, the benefits of the Defence Against the Enlightenment Class at the Hogwarts Post-Colonial Academy... "Human rights are hardly universal and, honour killings and stoning aside, there is a plethora of "rights" of profound cultural nuance rendering it almost impossible to decontextualise them..." Crikey, just choked on a mince-pie after that sentence. Look dear, I know it's awful when you can't properly decontextualise a plethora that's jamming up your works, and when its one of those really deep-seated nuanced plethoras, and you've got a nasty inverted comma problem on top of that, then I can see it could be a real nightmare, specially over the holiday period when professional decontextualisers are going to charge you double just for coming out. Still, they're not all cowboys like "Bush & Blair", you know. Down our way there's a nice little man called Rawls whose cheap and honest and can decontextualise some of the worst, most nuanced plethoras you've ever seen, and might even take a look at your honour killing and stoning problem as well, and indeed your embarrassing gibberish problem, for not much extra... " So that was the context and it is a blessing to have friends who will giggle too.