April 26, 2007

Women's Town

Ava's home municipality and city of Chongqing is taking a rather interesting approach to drumming up tourism dollars. They're building the worlds first "women's town." An excerpt from Reuters today:

The motto of the new town would be "women never make mistakes, and men can never refuse women's requests," Chinese media have reported.

When tour groups enter the town, female tourists would play the dominant role when shopping or choosing a place to stay, and a disobedient man would be punished by "kneeling on an uneven board" or washing dishes in restaurant, media reports said.


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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wait, I am confused. Why is this news? Doesn't every couple travel this way?

Anonymous said...

In our house, this is just a little thing we call "Thursday Night."

Thanks for the information. Very interesting.