My Smart Ass Comment Of The Day.

Ahhh, Hamas. Thanks for denying your women yet another of their God-given liberties by instituting a female-only ban on smoking water pipes this weekend. (SEE: "Hamas Bans Women From Smoking Pipes In Cafes") You make the feminist in me want to explode.

I love how these sort of moral injunctions are consistently built upon the basis of pretense, impression, and appearance.

• "It is inappropriate for a woman to sit cross-legged and smoke in publc. It harms the image of our people." Hamas Interior Ministry spokesman, Ihab Ghussein
  
  
• "Many in Gaza see the water pipe as inappropriate for women because of its sexual connotation and because it looks crass for ladies to smoke." Palestinian anthropologist, Ali Qleibo.

So let me get this straight. A group of guys are saying its pornographic for women to smoke water bongs because it visually resembles fellatio...BUT...of course, it's 100% socially acceptable for men to do it. Because, using their warped logic, there's obviously nothing latently homosexual about a bunch of dudes sitting around one another, smokin' some pipe.

Nothing at all.