Begone, slatternly produce

Setting aside the horrifying elements and assuming it's not apocryphal, this article about life in Iraq under al Qaeda raises all sorts of thorny questions:

"They regarded the cucumber as male and tomato as female. Women were not allowed to buy cucumbers, only men," he said.

Ok, I can figure out anything that's significantly longer than it is wide, but what about more ambiguous items like the kiwi?  Sure, it's rounded like a tomato, but the hair strikes me as suspiciously masculine.

And as for this...:

"They even killed female goats because their private parts were not covered and their tails were pointed upward, which they said was haram," Hayyes said.

...I have to say that if you're spending that much time inspecting the ass-end of a goat to see if it lights your fire, it says much more about you than it does about the goat.

Comments

[Save the Oocytes]

Slatternly! That's a word I don't see enough of.

[Thomas Daulton]

Butbutbut... what if a man buys a whole lot of really ripe, salacious cucumbers? What if he looks like he is enjoying it? Is that a homosexual act? And then, as we all know, you have to drop a wall on him.

[John Caruso]

Shh...they might hear you.