Thursday, January 10, 2008

radical changes in the rights of women in egypt

newsflash:

women's rights have progressed rapidly in egypt in the past few days with the astonishing new development in Cairene infrastructure:

the women's car on the subway has been moved from the front to the middle of the train!


watch as chaos ensues when confused men step on the train and immediately receive the evil eye! watch the men run to the cars on either side!


though the supposed purpose of this move was to make sure that women run less to catch the train, for me it has had the reverse effect and has confused my metro routine. and today was actually the First time I saw a women fall while running to catch the train...


so far the only result i've seen is that the front cars formerly reserved for women are almost empty, the new women's cars are almost empty and all cars in between are packed to the brim.


genius...