On the Opinion page of the Boston Globe this morning there was a good essay by a woman recently returned from India. She notes about how in Boston a little old lady narked her out for having a kid in her car without a children's seat. The kid recently had to deal with avoiding huge snakes and jumping over a five-foot deep drainage ditch to get to school.
What was really odd, though, was her testimony about hijiras: gangs of eunuchs. They will barge into a new mother's apartment and threaten to lay a curse on her boy child unless they're paid off – typically about a hundred bucks. (The author was safe, with her three girls . . . the eunuchs will "leave me alone out of pity.")
The last time a gang of eunuchs threatened me, I told them to go fuck themselves. They left in confusion.
Joe
Published on September 01, 2011 17:06