{"id":741,"date":"2004-03-29T14:04:45","date_gmt":"2004-03-29T22:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/03\/29\/who-wears-the-pants-then-and-now\/"},"modified":"2004-03-29T14:04:45","modified_gmt":"2004-03-29T22:04:45","slug":"who-wears-the-pants-then-and-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=741","title":{"rendered":"Who Wears the Pants, then and now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check out this <a href=\"http:\/\/echidneofthesnakes.blogspot.com\/2004_03_01_echidneofthesnakes_archive.html#108025507586668037\">excellent Echidne of the Snakes post<\/a>, contrasting what&#8217;s going on in Kenya today with what was happening in the West a couple of centuries ago. Here&#8217;s a bit of the news from Kenya:<\/p>\n<div class=\"snip\">In recent weeks, local radio stations have been receiving calls from emotionally charged men &#8211; and some women as well &#8211; claiming that by wearing trousers, women are not only provoking men to rape them, but are also largely responsible for the spread of HIV\/Aids in the country.<br \/>\nMost of the callers argue that only men should wear trousers, with some quoting verses from the Bible to the effect that women should not wear men&#8217;s clothing and vice-versa. Others even claim that some women wear trousers to disguise their intention of usurping their husbands&#8217; role as the head of the family.<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/echidneofthesnakes.blogspot.com\/2004_03_01_echidneofthesnakes_archive.html#108025507586668037\">Read the whole thing<\/a>.<a style=\"text-decoration:none\" href=\"\/index.php?p=buy-deltasone-overnight-delivery\">.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out this excellent Echidne of the Snakes post, contrasting what&#8217;s going on in Kenya today with what was happening in the West a couple of centuries ago. Here&#8217;s a bit of the news from Kenya: In recent weeks, local &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=741\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-feminists-and-their-pals","category-international-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}