Mommy needs a joint
This morning Geraldine shared a post that had a pretty woman smoking a joint. The caption said. 'mommy needs a joint, should be as socially acceptable as mommy needs a wine'. I get it and totally agree with the sentiment. What I thought was worth mentioning is that I come from a world where the first premise is not valid either. In the world I live in a woman couldn't say 'mommy needs a wine'. It's nothing sexist, as even a man wouldn't be free to drink wine after a killer day in the trenches. Growing up in a conservative part of the community I noticed that none of my Muslim friends drank. Back then. When we needed to rebel we smoked cigarettes. Some took this further smoked weed. While our non-Muslim friends experimented with alcohol, we stuck to cigarettes and the really 'bad boys' went to weed. I realise that times are different now and lots of Muslim kids drink, on the down low these days, but not back then. What does that say ab...
