the issue of women’s marathon

those girls who wish to run, should be allowed to run. and if women are not allowed to jog in public, then that restriction should be placed on men as well. the sight of men running in t-shirts and shorts is as much of a turn-on for women as women jogging down the street is for men.

if men continue to object to women’s jogging in the open, while allowing the men to continue to jog, then women should demand that an infrastructure of parallel women-only streets be constructed where they can do what men are doing - without harming the modesty of men.

its a sad fact that in some areas of NWFP and baluchistan, a woman’s walking down the street is considered slanderous.

those objecting to women walking and running in the open should know that the era when women were transported in covered "doli" from one place to another ended around 1905. this is 2005 :-)