A friend’s view

hi professor As I read through all that I also thought he had faced some situation that possibly made him angry and sick too.I reading it as an American woman felt for any woman who had never been able to make her no or stop heard. It sounds like he might have been in Saudi Arabia or some country where really women are thought of as second class all the wa y. reading that I imagine on your hearing that you really did not know what to say or worst you might have been afraid to hear all of what had brought this all on, I know I might not have wanted to delve too far in it either.'You know my own country America has its faults but more and more as I learn how women are treated and mistreated I do thank my God that I live here. also I thank God I married a man who respected me and trusted me as well as loved me.I think I might have been just like you and not urged him to open up more as perhaps we both cringed inside thinking how horrid that would be to be a woman in that place. sad sad sad

Prof, your friend don't give a proper information to you, he just gave a hint to you and provide the work of developing the hint to you. I am also in your sort, not interested in asking for further information, if the person is not interested in giving it. In some countries women's are considered in this sort. It is really a great pity

I consider myself to be a very lucky person that I've been able to live in a country during a time where women have the same rights as men. I couldn't even begin to imagine what it would be like to live in a place where I didn't have the same rights that men have. In fact, I think that it is quite sad that there are so many places in the world today where women still are treated like property. A woman is just as human as a man and should always be treated as such.

Oh my. I wonder if he had mention this in the light of that Pakistani girl who was shot by the Taliban recently as she fought for women's education and rights. That's what I thought of when I read your discussion here, rather than thinking he had faced something bad himself. It sounds like he was appalled by that way of thinking about women in that country - and he was perhaps just expressing that. I think I would have asked further about it . . . I don't think it would have been nosy as it didn't sound personal . . . it sounded like it was an observance of some sort . . . . I would be curious as to which country he did visit. In any case, ohhhhhh, the that way of thinking is soooo terrible!!