Barbershop

I went for my monthly haircut this afternoon after work, and as soon as I sat in my chair my friendly talented Lebanese barber - who loves to talk politics by the way - immediately asked me where I stand on women's political rights. He obviously doesn't read this blog... I immediately responded with my not inconsiderable lecturing (i.e. barking) skills, and hammered my point to him. He breathed a sigh of relief for finally getting someone on the side of reason, sense and logic.

Apparently, he had been conducting an informal survey amongst his customers since Monday's demonstration and had found that the majority of them were against women's rights. It wouldn't have been so bad if they had backed up their position with a firm belief in something, but most of them just had one stupid answer after the next. Mind you, this is supposed to be an upscale "men's salon" with a supposedly upscale clientele. Money doesn't buy sense or logic it seems, because here's a sampler of what most of them said:
احنا جذي مو خالصين من شرهم، هالمرة يدخلون المجلس؟؟
المرأة حرة تطلع وتروح وتجي على كيفها. شتبي بعد؟؟
الحريم شعرفهم بالسياسة؟؟

And when he told them that women have political rights almost everywhere, even in less developed countries:
كيفهم... شعلينا منهم؟؟

He finally came to the conclusion that if ignorance is this widespread among Kuwait's male population, then maybe Kuwait's women were better off staying away from them!