Pressing Onward
from NYTimes.com, “Afghan Boys Are Prized, So Girls Live the Part”
Wow ~ I think my 8-year-old self would have loved this, but now I'm sad to realize why some families feel this is necessary ...
Take a look ~ there are some great photos and some video that accompany this article. It starts off:
“KABUL, Afghanistan — Six-year-old Mehran Rafaat is like many girls her age. She likes to be the center of attention. She is often frustrated when things do not go her way. Like her three older sisters, she is eager to discover the world outside the family’s apartment in their middle-class neighborhood of Kabul.
“But when their mother, Azita Rafaat, a member of Parliament, dresses the children for school in the morning, there is one important difference. Mehran’s sisters put on black dresses and head scarves, tied tightly over their ponytails. For Mehran, it’s green pants, a white shirt and a necktie, then a pat from her mother over her spiky, short black hair. After that, her daughter is out the door — as an Afghan boy.”
Read the rest of the article ...
Mehran with her mother, Azita Rafaat. She is a member of the Afghan Parliament and had also posed as a boy when she was a young girl.
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