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Re: Honor means blood
Which lost its meaning of Honor first: the word, or the people? HONOR as used in the Middle East, refers to women, their reputation as chaste or not, and how that reputation affects her family. But America once shared that meaning. It used to be if someone insulted one's mother, wife, daughter, sister, to protect her ''honor'', you would go ...
Posted to Human Nature by Usama2 on February 4, 2008
Would You Deny A Man's Need to Protect Women?
Perhaps this is a most appropriate forum to raise my disliked topic given this forum's Highbrow title and my viewpoint often condescendingly framed as being Lowbrow. In any case, while pop editorialists ponder whether America needs men to protect the women in their lives, the call of human nature goes unabaded in every new generation. It is an ...
Posted to The Highbrow by Usama2 on November 20, 2007