the liberated modern woman breaking the mould.

[socafighter]

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Ms Persad-Bissessar, who graduated top of her class from law school, also confronted the delicate issue of gender tensions. "Looking towards the future, one of the most important issues the national community must face is the widening gap between the liberated, modern, independent women and our traditional men who are being left behind," she said. "Women are outperforming men in almost every sphere of life in our society and the women of east Indian ancestry are no exception to this rule. They have broken the cultural mould," she said. No-one as much as her.

Barely 24 hours after she was sworn in as the first woman prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Kamla Persad-Bissessar donned a life jacket and waded into the flood waters to tour areas affected by torrential rains sweeping across the Caribbean. A devout Hindu, she swore on the Bhagavad Gita—the Hindu holy book—to do her duty to her people. Even as congratulations poured in from around the world, she remained focused on "dealing with the people's business." It was the most important task at hand, she told her 1.3 million citizens during the live televised address of her historic swearing-in ceremony. A descendant of Indian indentured labourers who came to Trinidad to work the sugar plantations from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar between 1845 and 1917, Ms Persad-Bissessar grew up with traditional Indian values and strong religious ties.

[mapoui]

Women are outperforming men in almost every sphere of life in our society and the women of east Indian ancestry are no exception to this rule. They have broken the cultural mould," she said. No-one as much as her.

how and why is dat a problem?

when it was the other way around we knew why and it was alright still, as if locking down a woman in a house all day long while the man went to school, had all the good wuk and dominated society was the natural order of things.

currently women get hal a chance and deh are off and running, outstripping men who are or equal opportunity with then out there.

I am yet to see how dat is a bad thing in the current mix when all of society is screwed up to say the least

[mapoui]

if is one ting this re-freeing of women doing dat I like bad bad, is how it upsettin' dem muslim fellas an dem!

deh 'bex' yuh hear! deh spitting 'bex' . deh angry so much deh lockin' dong muslim women even more. deh stonin' and deh cuttin' an' all kinda ah atrocity but it is to no avail now! too late!.

I never see anyone put humpy dumpy back together again, once he fall an' bruck him rass!

all them muslim women who getting beat-up now to be part of the necessary human sacrifice we must always pay fuh social advance. unfortunate... but their sacrifice will not be in vain.

muslim women will soon get rid of burkas and hijabs etc., that imprison them in fabric. and muslim men and Islam will have to adjust to what is natural and right...the freedom of muslim women to live equal to muslim men.

[mapoui]

WE KNOW JACK ADVISED HER TO TRAVEL TO NEW YORK and WILL SOME DAY THROW IT BACK IN HER FACE THAT SHE WENT ON A SPREE WHEN THE NATION WAS IN

another thing yuh cyar get away from is TT comes man seh Warny preparing kamla fuh a stab in she back comin' up

[mapoui]

it have ah man here, is eider he wuk fuh de Guardian or he have ah Guardian franchise!

it have 4, 5 TT papers and internet wrags yet all he link to is the Guardian! mmmmm

[mapoui]

I assume dat Indian men get all deh breaks deh need in TT! so if TT women outstrippin' dem in all areas of life den women jess better than dem. its dat simple!

and where blac men used to be top dog academically in TT back in the day, deh are low dog now.

so if anything is to be done to get men up to speed it appears largely a young blac male problem...and eforts would have to be focused there.

if and when dat is done, I suspect dat men will still be whipped by women even if the gap seperating them gets narrowed in time.

and I see dis as international phenomena..not jess TT and westindian alone. it may be, all things being equal, dat women jess better! it' could be dat simple.

but I doh see a problem if is ah distinction between better and best. if everybody have chance and all wo/men going forward, everybody go be tops.

a man will be no slouch to be einsein when he superior might be a womam who is einstein and a fifth, or einstein and a quarter

[BallOil]

this topic have you going...eh

Women will soon rule the world

[mapoui]

yuh not tired of the inequality and the burden it places on you the man?

I fed up yuh hear! if woman were totally up tp speed soem of the shit I have had to deal with in life could never happen.

an' I see it happenin' all round the place.

the thing dat will really bring everybody up to speed not jess women is socialism or democracy...a revolutionary stage that places the survival of the comunity, the people, as the reason on which all production is based and cultural organisation is based.

that would do the trick...bring everybody up in a generation or so, up to the level of the known...all fully employed in building the democracy, all secure and developing.

that process go reorganisethe whole way we relate in life...how we have sex, how and what we eat, how we have and bring up children, how we get married if we get married at all....or marriage remains just one option in a range of possible relationships people can engage in.

[BallOil]

the people have to want change and fight for it...change doh just happen so.

[mapoui]

the people have to want change and fight for it...change doh just happen so.

I know dat!

but when yu get to know how things flow, the how of it...yu cyan also get to know the options at various points because of how that potential came to be.

there is always at least dire and good basic one, opposed to each othere yet interdependent in the mix. you doan' want the dire to manifest but the postive.

so I speak it out as best I could hoping that what I know, if valid, falls on good ground and expresses itself fully in time in positive change.

so yu always if you can speak about the good thats is possible, from the good tat exists and has come to be. same way with the bad in the sens that it must be eliminated