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Issue Nº 3
War & Silence


Endre Farkas: 101 Reasons for Flogging, Raping, Stoning & Killing Women
Endre Farkas

1. For being born a woman
2. For being born into a man’s world
3. For bleeding

4. For wanting to go to school
5. For wanting to learn to read and write
6. For reading and writing
7. For wanting to be a teacher

8. For riding bicycles
9. For entering a sports center
10. For playing sports

11. For laughing too loudly
12. For appearing on balconies of their houses
13. For not being covered from head to toe
14. For leaving the house alone
15. For leaving the house without the husband’s permission

16. For travelling on the same bus as a man
17. For riding in a taxi unchaperoned
18. For driving a car
19. For dealing with male shopkeepers
20. For shaking hands with unrelated males

21. For using perfume
22. For wearing high heels
23. For having painted lips and nails
24. For wearing brightly coloured clothes
25. For wearing wide pant leg pants under the burqa

26. For smoking cigarettes
27. For listening to music
28. For singing
29. For watching films

30. For being treated by a male doctors
31. For wanting to be doctors
32. For being doctors
33. For handing out condoms
34. For having sex outside of marriage

35. For presence on the radio, television or at public gatherings
36. For entering a club

37. For not opening the door fast enough
38. For supper not being ready on time
39. For supper being ready too soon

40. For riding a motorcycle
41. For gathering for festive occasions
42. For laughing in public

43. For wanting equal pay for equal work

44. For embodying sin
45. For being emotional
46. For having smaller brains
47. For being immature

48. For being a war widow forced into prostitution
49. For being poor
50. For being hungry
51. For not working

52. For wanting to be engineers
53. For wanting to be financially independent
54. For working

55. For wanting the right to vote
56. For voting

57. For being photographed
58. For wanting their photos back

59. For talking back
60. For complaining about being beaten
61. For not having sex on demand
62. For not wanting to be married off at eleven
63. For not wanting to be married off to a man three times her age
64. For having been raped by brothers and charged for incest
65. For being raped and reporting it to the police
66. For not wanting clitoridectomy
67. For being pregnant
68. For having postpartum
69. For wanting a divorce

70. For being weak in the garden
71. For taking a bite from the tree of knowledge
72. For embodying seduction
73. For touching themselves
74. For not being the man’s footstool on earth
75. For being a hooker and offering services that men want

76. For wanting

77. For loving a woman
78. For loving another man
79. For being a witch

80. For winning the lottery

81. For being mothers
82. For being ugly
83. For having big feet
84. For being beautiful
85. For being ordinary
86. For being inspiration
87. For bearing children
88. For bearing female children

89. For being the true lineage

90. For knowing too much
91. For not knowing enough
92. For bowing too slowly
93. For wanting unbound feet

94. For being artists

95. For not having God on their side
96. For having concern for their souls

97. For wanting to control their bodies
98. For naming a teddy  bear Mohammed

99. For setting themselves on fire
100. For wanting peace

101. For being

102. For _____________________

 

 






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Reference
Endre Farkas.  "Endre Farkas: 101 Reasons for Flogging, Raping, Stoning & Killing Women."  Poetry Quebec. Articles :   Eds. Endre FarkasElias LetelierCarolyn Marie Souaid.  Montreal:  Issue Nº 3   War & Silence.   Mar 8, 2010. 
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