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“bacha baz”

aatombomb:

All of this was so disconcerting that the Defense Department hired Cardinalli, a social scientist, to examine this mystery. Her report, “Pashtun Sexuality,” startled not even one Afghan. But Western forces were shocked - and repulsed. For centuries, Afghan men have taken boys, roughly 9 to 15 years old, as lovers. Some research suggests that half the Pashtun tribal members in Kandahar and other southern towns are bacha baz, the term for an older man with a boy lover. Literally it means “boy player.” The men like to boast about it. “Having a boy has become a custom for us,” Enayatullah, a 42-year-old in Baghlan province, told a Reuters reporter. “Whoever wants to show off should have a boy.”

In Kandahar, population about 500,000, and other towns, dance parties are a popular, often weekly, pastime. Young boys dress up as girls, wearing makeup and bells on their feet, and dance for a dozen or more leering middle-aged men who throw money at them and then take them home. A recent State Department report called “dancing boys” a “widespread, culturally sanctioned form of male rape.”

- SFGate via The Dish

I suppose it’s a sad, inevitable reality that in a culture with such harsh, repressive gender roles this sort of grotesque sexual outlet has emerged. 

The Conjecturer knows a lot about this phenomenon from his travels in that area. I’ll leave this bait here and await further commentary from him.

Update On Discovery Networks Hostage-Taker

Welcome to the Y2Khole. News reports indicate that the hostage-taker has a website listing his demands, which include rambling (and, yes, typo-filled) references to Ishmael Reed and Ponzi schemes. Excerpt:

1. The Discovery Channel and it’s affiliate channels MUST have daily television programs at prime time slots based on Daniel Quinn’s “My Ishmael” pages 207-212 where solutions to save the planet would be done in the same way as the Industrial Revolution was done, by people building on each other’s inventive ideas. Focus must be given on how people can live WITHOUT giving birth to more filthy human children since those new additions continue pollution and are pollution. A game show format contest would be in order. Perhaps also forums of leading scientists who understand and agree with the Malthus-Darwin science and the problem of human overpopulation. Do both. Do all until something WORKS and the natural world starts improving and human civilization building STOPS and is reversed! MAKE IT INTERESTING SO PEOPLE WATCH AND APPLY SOLUTIONS!!!!

Gunman Holding Hostages At Discovery Channel HQ In Maryland

Currently unclear on number of hostages, more TK.

Planning My Next Tattoo

So I already have a tattoo of the Brooklyn Bridge w/ the Manhattan skyline in front of a blue sky tattooed on my right arm. I’m planning to get a half-sleeve done around it showing the first Dutch sailing ships coming into NYC. Getting the initial sketch for the tattoo done after Labor Day… I’d be lying if I didn’t say I was excited aboutit.

A Blog Post For The Parents

Note: I’m not a parent. But I have quite a few friends w/ children, which means I get to experience kids once or twice a month - with no responsibility to actually raise them. You know, the way it should be.

Anyway, a friend of mine recently pulled his daughter from a Spanish-speaking class for 4-6 year olds. The reason? The daughter’s Spanish, even at that young age, advanced past his. He decided that because he could no longer help his daughter with Spanish, that she was better off quitting the class.

Stuff like that bothers me. Dude, you’re just DEPRIVING THE KID.

I’m Underemployed; It’s The Pre-Labor Day Slow Stretch. Let’s Network.

I just sold out and made a LinkedIn profile. Let’s network.