I was just thinking, while reminiscing about the time I spent in Yemen, that @eddieizzard was born there.
In Sanaa, I would meet several women indoors and they would play a game with me when we got out: "guess the woman."
I had to guess which of the women I had met indoors was
now standing in front of me with only her eyes visible. They had much fun switching names to confuse me. I became quite good at it with time. Outside they had no identity at all but managed graciously to turn it into a game, an occasion for "mischief" and freedom of some sort.
In rural Yemen, a woman ceases to have a name of her own when she gets married. Someone pronouncing your mother's or wife's name is seen as insulting you. Her name is an indecency.
No name, no face, no identity.
I'm told I must respect Eddie's fictitious identity when so many women in the world, incl. the country of his birth are not even allowed to hang on to their own, real identity.

It's not going to happen Ed, not as long as women are disrespected for what they really are, female.
Not going to happen...
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