said "You're all alike" and walked out. Been married too long to fall into that trap so I waited until this morning and said, "Oh, BTW..."

Turns out she'd been watching a program filmed recently in Pakistan in the NWF area. Female reporter, a Muslim and a Pakistani, pointed out to a crowd of male village leaders that she had read the Koran and it nowhere called for the hijab or any other head covering. The Elders', plural, response was emphatic, loud and instant: "It's in there, you missed it." They then resumed eating and thus closed that issue. Men can be intransigent I think was the message. I thought it best not to pursue that...

Pertinence here is "Do not bother me with facts" seems to be feature, not a bug...

As does "MOTH-ER, I'd rather do it myself..."