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Times are changing

That women are facing discrimination and there is no one to fight for them is because, pardon my saying so, women are too laissez faire. If they were to unite I am sure the walls would tumble down.
Dictators are overthrown. Women were in charge in ancient Rome and they prevailed, so what’s keeping our womenfolk from taking up cudgels against bigoted racists?
As Bob Dylan sang, "The Times They Are a-Changin.” FARIDA BAMJI
Canada
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One reader wrote
  • Alas, they were our very own ancestors, who left their all, for our religion... "Oh what progeny we produced", they must be saying. LET US BEHAVE IN A FASHION, THAT AT LEAST THEY ARE NOT ASHAMED OF US.

    A reader · 7 July 2016
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