Sparse: Colette with Meitkini, left, and the Masai chief, right, whose tribe have no possessions and no running water
Yet they have perfect teeth.
Posted on 04/02/2010 8:15:19 PM PDT by cycle of discernment
“She’ll come out of this all ready for Gloria Allred.”
I’d pay to see that. Allred vs. the Masai, an instant classic!
...But hey, whatever happens she'd have had an exciting adventure I suppose, and gotten this bug out of her system...
I edited your comment a bit and this part reflects my true thoughts on the matter exactly.
if I were a man, I’d be a Masai too...
As for women, forget it.
No running water? You want to carry water home three miles from the water hole in the dry season? You want to live where there is no aspirin or birth control pills? Or where half your kids will die before age 4?
And the men are notoriously promiscuous...
Prime Minister of Britain. :)
She’s crazy.
She freely admits she fell sexually for a guy who culturally does not marry for love, and may take any number of wives.
I can understand being seduced by the simple beauty of nature. I really can. But I can’t understand going into an alien culture.
I don’t buy this cultural equality stuff. It sounds like the wife is a possession in this culture, and I can’t be sold on that. I don’t care how nice the sunset is. Move to Montana and have a bonfire every night. Geez.
Never heard of them abusing one another nor others - other TVA n cattle stealing, which is not seen as stealing in their culture.- never heard anything negative, come to think of it. They ‘re still largely nomadic and relatively primitive. A happy people, actually more ‘civilized’ than so many African peoples who slaughter each other by the thousands.
Maybe it's because they still live such simple lives with so few possessions, no cities to conquer and rule, etc., that they escape the machete wielders.
Now anyone fool woman who marries a Saudi or Iranian has got to be brain dead.
Apparently they share everything, including sex with each other's wives.
Apparently this worked out for them to keep the tribe intact - it takes a village and all of that - as long as they were isolated in the bush far from civilization and had only their other tribe members to depend on.
But now some of the men do go into the city to find some work from time to time (the days of stealing livestock from other tribes are over, so even they now need some money to buy some things) and if one person from the tribe were to catch AIDS from someone from the city, it could get passed around to the whole tribe...
Could have done a lot worse - say, a British Ph.D.-educated Muslim.
Never heard of them abusing one another nor others - other TVA n cattle stealing, which is not seen as stealing in their culture.- never heard anything negative, come to think of it. They‘re still largely nomadic and relatively primitive. A happy people, actually more ‘civilized’ than so many African peoples who slaughter each other by the thousands.
I agree that they sound like a proud and happy and decent people. I am just worried that their habit of sharing everything, including their wives, might get their tribe wiped out if one person catches AIDS from someone in the city. See my post 108.
You putting it like that got me to thinking about what maybe attracted her to him. Wonder how those Masai men are...
Self-destructive white people throw away a few thousand years of advancement in favor of getting AIDS.
Nice story.
Sparse: Colette with Meitkini, left, and the Masai chief, right, whose tribe have no possessions and no running water
Yet they have perfect teeth.
Maybe size does matter.
Sighs do matter...
The Masai do not use the bow, and don't practice archery. They use the spear, both hand-held, and thrown, and a hardwood throwing club for smaller game.
I had the opportunity to visit a Masai encampment in the Rift Valley of Kenya in 1980, where I saw them practice their hunting/warrior skills with their chosen arms. Quite impressive...
the infowarrior
She’s out picking coffee beans in the field...and stays this pale? I’m out picking weeds for an hour and get burned and we are far from the sun and heat of Africa.
She’s mentally ill.
Her first bout with amebic dysentary will open her eyes to the wonders of Western sanitation. Bet she’s back in less than year, sitting in an English privy, reading the British Journal of Engineering while on the pot and cheering on the production of iodine tablets and reams of TP.
I doubt you buy meat in cellophane. Polyvinylchloride wrap is more likely.
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