Just like Andrew Heavens and Rob Crilly, Blake is also a freelance journalist who spends a lot of time in Khartoum. He’s got two interesting blog posts.
Israel and Sudan: No surprise there really. Her reaction is rather representative.
Men Mustn’t Cook: He sounds like the typical super traditionalist uptight Sudanese male. Yeah, did you hear that women? YOU do all the cooking and cleaning. Besides being a baby-making machine, that’s your purpose in life. Now stop reading this blog and go bake me some cookies.
SudaneseThinker
SudaneseThinker
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I meet too many sudanese men, no matter how…”progressive” they are….who share these kind of sentiments. And whenever such sentiments are expressed to me (and are attempted to be enforced on me) I usually just laugh, and in a totally non delicate, feminine, etc…what have you…appropriate manner. No. the kind of laugh that should only be found in mental institutions.
That usually stops them in their tracks.
I have learned that arguing such sentiments is pretty pointless.
You figure that the manly thing to do is to hunt your own meat and to cook it yourself, but I guess these manly men don’t know how to fend for themselves.
But seriously, to be truely dependent on someone else to survive, is not very appealing to me. Sharing is nice and all, but to be a real man means being able to fend for yourself in this dangerous world. Just my primitive world view I guess.
Dalu, “I have learned that arguing such sentiments is pretty pointless.”
Hehehe, oh yeah, tell me about it. Now where are my damn cookies woman?? GO AND BAKE ME SOME!!!
Al, “the manly thing to do is to hunt your own meat and to cook it yourself”
Hunting? Yes. Cooking? No. At least not in a hardcore Sudanese context.
And Sudanese cooking is pretty hardcore. I remember my mother slaving for hours to just end up with one complicated as hell dish (but doesn’t seem so, to the average eye). Everything is cooked from scratch. She even used to grind her own meat instead of just buying ground beef. Damn. What’s the point in living in the modern world when you won’t take advantage of having others grind your meet for you?
Do your own damn baking.
And while you are at it, send some my way.
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