Posted on 08/13/2006 3:09:02 PM PDT by Torie
It's hard to get them out of my head. Here's the story if you missed it: Iraqi Islamists are threatening shepherds with violence if they don't clothe their goats with diapers to avoid tempting lonely shepherds. Another facet of the "new Middle East." Yes, it's funny. But it's also revealing about the way fundamentalism and sex interact. What most male-run religious fundamentalisms include is a major exception for the hetero-male sex drive. Sex outside of missionary-position reproduction with legal wife/wives is officially verboten; but when frail male flesh gives in, the blame is almost always the object of desire - not the guy actually responsible. Hence: it's the goat's fault. The way they were dressed, they were asking for it.
(Excerpt) Read more at time.blogs.com ...
High on a hill was a lonely goatherd
Lay ee odl lay ee odl lay hee hoo
Loud was the voice of the lonely goatherd
Lay ee odl lay ee odl-oo
Folks in a town that was quite remote heard
Lay ee odl lay ee odl lay hee hoo
Lusty and clear from the goatherd's throat heard
Lay ee odl lay ee odl-oo
(etc.)
I was expecting Scott Ott in the credits.
(Gay man dies from anal sex with horse, the man on the receiving end...)
Anyone want to email that article to Sullivan or post it on his blog, like he deserves?
Cheers!
They left out the part where the PC crowd wants us all to quit using the inflamatory term "shepherds" and instead use the user friendly term "taxidermist" because they mount animals and things. Animals I can understand, but "things"?
Never ask an Arab if he has any kids.
Well, I had a comment about the 72 virgins waiting and such....but I just can't bring myself to do it.
Well, at the very least, they're admitting there is a problem.
That's one old goat who probably hasn't had sex in awhile.
That's like the guy who carries a sheep into his living room where his wife is sitting.
"This is the goat I sleep with when you're not around," he says.
"I think you'll find," says she, "that that's a sheep."
To which he replies "I think you'll find that I wasn't talking to you."
FMCDH(BITS)
And you get in trouble for an iPod picture....?
*sheepish expression*
"... to avoid tempting lonely shepherds".
EW!
"... to avoid tempting lonely shepherds".
Or is that EWE!
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