Our political forces have a bad habit to send women to the front line. That bad habit originates from the times, when the Pan-Armenian National Movement (PANM) would use “women’s potential” against police officers and the Communist bureaucracy – members of those units were called “APC” – in order to carry out their revolutionary plans. They were ready to play hell with the Communists, then members of the PANM and all the governments to come, seek for them, pull their, as well as their own, hair. During the ANC rallies in recent years, if you have noticed, the stairs of the Opera Theater were surrounded by one or two lines of these women whose ranks have admittedly depleted and they are not in a very good shape for obvious reasons.
“Valkyries” (female warriors in the Scandinavian Mythology) appear also in the parliament from time to time and are ready to engage in such a verbal skirmish for the sake of their party, which males usually avoid. Certainly, men are to blame – if you have something to say, say it and don’t send women to a “hand-to-hand combat.” However, they, representatives of the fair sex, should also sense that they should sheathe swords at a certain point, at the end of the day, we are not a Nordic, Scandinavian people. In our country, it is the opposite – the woman traditionally plays a restraining, conciliatory role that takes the edge off something.
Generally, all kinds of “bazaar” skirmishes (not only between women) are caused by the fact that both sides want to have the last word. To have that “last” word, the sides increase the “volume” of their curses at every stage of the skirmish, in order that this “last” word is devastating, crushing one, which makes the opponent give up. But that word is actually not the last one, another “more crushing” word follows it. And this goes on like in the tale A Drop of Honey. Admittedly, The Treaty of Sèvres can be a drop of honey too.
Thus, a piece of advice to experienced and inexperienced politicians, as well as people from other walks of life – don’t be afraid of not responding to curses, don’t worry that your opponent may perceive it as a sign of weakness or a lack of arguments. In other words, don’t be afraid of losing such “debates.”
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For example, when they write something bad about me not to find out the truth, but because of some personal or clan (party) reasons I immediately “give up” saying to myself, “Yes, you are the good guys, I am the bad guy.”
ARAM ABRAHAMYAN
