Bhutto

I read an AP article today about Pakistan's former prime minister Benazir Bhutto. She was killed, assassinated, in a suicide attack at a campaign rally. It was a hideous, cowardly attack that shows the failure of manhood in a way.

When we men don't understand or accept something, we want to destroy it. The first female prime minister of any country in such a patriarchal world is bound to rile people up, and make old men feel powerless, emasculated.

The thing that makes me feel better about it, from the perspective of a man shamed by other men, is that many of those who were closest to her, and her biggest supporters were men. These are the kind of people who upon hearing of her death, started breaking windows, destroying cars and clashing with members of other political parties.

The willingness to go to anti-social, irrational lengths for something a person believes in is something I like in all people, I just wish there were certain limits to it.

Well, politics is not something I plan on talking about too much anymore.