#russian problems

There's a show on Russian TV where a woman interviews children from an orphanage in order to show them to their potential adopters. So, she's interviewing an eight-year-old girl and her little brother, and she asks the girl: "You are elder, but you're a girl. He's a boy, but he's younger. Who's the leader in your family then?" And the boy tells: "I'm too little, but soon I'll be the leader".

Ok, this is it. The "traditional values" our government's fighting for. Good for you, suckers.

And we, sexism haters, are looked down as if we were some silly simpletons, victims of "Western brainwashing". Nobody wants to look stupid, so people tend to stand for the "traditions". It's considered perfectly ok to impose sexist standarts to little children.

Ex:

I told someone every single village has its own full and complete circus complete with fire breathers and a ballet troupe and that if your child is born with a deformity it’s assumed they will join said circus

I told someone that we don’t have ambulances in Russia, that I’ve never even heard of an ambulance, please tell me what that is Comrade

I convinced someone else that instead of cutting into wedding cake we cut into bear meat and that it’s customary to name your firstborn after the bear you killed (how would someone even know a bear’s name???)

And someone actually believed me when I told them that 60% of Russian children grow up in orphanages but that they don’t go to school they do hard labor in mines to earn their keep.

• La boyfriend: "You know it's funny. I had that Russian artist you listen to heaps stuck in my head the other day while I was was doing the washing."

• Me: "Haha that is funny."

• Me: "Longing. Rusted. Furnace. Daybreak. Seventeen. Benign. Nine. Homecoming. One. Freight car."

• Me: "Soldier?"