{"id":73903,"date":"2018-01-20T01:38:39","date_gmt":"2018-01-20T07:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=73903"},"modified":"2018-01-19T09:31:23","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T16:31:23","slug":"women-and-alcohol-yes-we-want-gender-equality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/01\/20\/women-and-alcohol-yes-we-want-gender-equality\/","title":{"rendered":"Women and alcohol \u2013 Yes, we want Gender equality!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Mareena Thaha Reffai,\u00a0Dehiwela<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

The Srilankan women have suddenly woken up to Gender equality! Yes we, women \u00a0must be allowed to buy alcohol! The protest against the President’s ruling about cancellation has made many a woman become vociferous even up to foreign media interviewing our so called erudite women.<\/p>\n

Our finance minister \u2013 wow! None lesser than our fianc\u00e9 minister himself – \u00a0who\u00a0 brought the law to allow the women to buy alcohol \u00a0in the first place – wonder what made him do it! May be he saw it as a means of bridge \u00a0the country’s revenue lapse \u00a0from sale of alcohol – \u00a0Knowing the capacity of the women for shopping! How extremely clever!<\/p>\n

So what’s wrong with it? Yes of course, we must be able to produce some more drunkards, now that what we have is not enough. We must have more drunken drivers on the road, now that the women drivers are usually said to be not efficient in killing enough people unlike the drunken male drivers! Yes, we must have more drunken mothers at home, now that the fathers coming home drunken and causing havoc is not enough! Yes, we must have more wives and daughters \u00a0get beaten up because she refuses to go to the shop to buy the liquor for the husband or buy it from her salary on the way back home. Yes, We must have more students in school and university \u00a0\u2013 including the teachers \u2013 must get drunk so that they can wreak more havoc in the educational institutes. Yes, we must make the children suffer – one drunkard parent is not enough \u00a0but lets have two! Yes, we must have more money spent of the family on alcohol now that they can afford everything!<\/p>\n

Gender equality is one thing \u00a0and what\u00a0 we need gender equality in is another thing. Will\u00a0 a sane society \u00a0try to eliminate alcoholism altogether or ask for the women to be included in this lunatic fringe?<\/p>\n

Lunatic fringe is defined as “the members of a usually political or social movement espousing extreme, eccentric, or fanatical views.”<\/p>\n

If these women have any sense of what is right and what is wrong, they will ask for the age of the men to be able to buy alcohol be increased to 80 if not 100 \u2013 if not to totally abolish it form our blessed country!<\/p>\n

What were they thinking? Next they will ask for gender equality of the people in the jail too!<\/p>\n

Are we all going mad or what?<\/p>\n

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Sent by:<\/p>\n

Dr. Mareena Thaha Reffai,\u00a0Dehiwela<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr. Mareena Thaha Reffai,\u00a0Dehiwela The Srilankan women have suddenly woken up to Gender equality! Yes we, women \u00a0must be allowed to buy alcohol! The protest against the President’s ruling about cancellation has made many a woman become vociferous even up to foreign media interviewing our so called erudite women. Our finance minister \u2013 wow! None […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}