Mashkullore in Albanian - masculine
The town on the road to a UNESCO heritage city of Gjirokaster tells more about the Albanian culture than you can imagine! Literary descriptions aside, let me share a few observations. Some weeks ago, passing by a posh new outdoors cafe in down-town Korce, I counted the customers. Roughly 50. Not a single woman. Not an uncommon view. (Korca has only one waitress.)
Woman at home, man at a club. A friend talks about the flat that her son (4 years old) is to inherit. Her 14 year old daughter didn't make it to the list of the heirs.
Since the toddler years, the girls are being taught to serve; the boys are being taught to be served.
A pregnant unmarried girl risks to be kicked out of the house and never accepted into the family again. Who would think there was also an impregnator involved?
Never in my entire life had I seen such crowds of guys going for walks down the boulevard! They certainly outnumber the girls.
Teenage girls don't go for an ice-cream without their parents' permission. Teenage boys are safe to wander out and about as they please.
Abused wives are not welcomed to return to their parent's homes - divorce is a shame and the wife is always the guilty one.
Welcome to Mashkullore!
(I am not a feminist. And certainly there are many exceptions! But if you try to tell me my observations are untrue, you'll risk to achieve the opposite effect.)
1 comment:
Is that you, Vika? Your concerns are right and true, and will take much prayer. These concerns are very high on God's list as well, and will be corrected IN THEIR SEASON. Highest priority is making disciples who in turn will make more disciples and Prayer Warriors. Rather than trying to teach old dogs new tricks. I believe the changes will come through the younger generation, youth and college age. The girls should be taught to pray that God would make them Godly woman for their future husbands. And be patient. And the same for the young men to pray for their future wives. And be patient. You know how God has you praying for each other all the time. For as their Heavenly Father it is His privilege to prepare and bring together at the perfect time His choices for husbands and wives. Look how God worked it out for Vika and Sean. Perfect? What can I say? Sean and Vika are a testimony of Hope that God has given to all those you serve. God's ways are Perfect, ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTES! Love never fails, Glenn
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