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Originally Posted by Open Eyes
Teacake, what did these men show you "protecting you" but not really "being there for you" and how you have viewed the women around them, that has something to do with your father and mother?
When you were "with" one of them you talk about his confusion about you, taking you in, yet confused at the same time as to how you were different from what they knew.
If you had a daughter instead of a son, would you have known how to fill "her" needs as you had for your son?
There is an ongoing theme to your puzzle that you keep hitting road blocks with.
If the ballet dancers you wanted to shut out were men, would have felt the same way? Or, would you have felt "safer" with them being there?
OE
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The mujahedden were all men. They had no women in the house. They were a different generation, and a different culture. They were probably soldiers raising money. I had no idea who they were at the time and was unaware of the Islamic revival. I didn't think about them that much. I reacted to them.
The one who was so nervous...I am not nice to laugh at his distress. He was a young religious man living without women and I was an egghead who was naive about my own beauty. I was attractive and natural as a child, no makeup and jeans and flimsy little shirts.
His culture was different and I was young. I wish both that I had kissed his nose and that I had been more culturally sensitive.
The ballet dancers from the Bolshoi were a married couple.