February 2, 2007

• Interesting Reading

  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070202/ap_on_re_af/guinea_bissau_ladies__choice

  In this archipelago of 50 islands off the western rim of Africa, it's women, not men, who choose. They make their proposals public by offering their grooms-to-be a dish of distinctively prepared fish, marinated in red palm oil. Once they have asked, men are powerless to say no.

  "Love comes first into the heart of the woman," he explained. "Once it's in the woman, only then can it jump into the man."

  Wow, that is a weird system. 

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