Gen. Than Shwe, of Myanmar, leader of Asia’s most authoritarian regime, made a rare public appearance earlier this year, but dressed in a women’s sarong. Most likely, according to a report on AOL News, he was challenging the country’s increasingly successful “panty protests” in which females opposed to the regime toss their underwear at the leaders or onto government property to, according to superstition, weaken the oppressors. Men wear sarongs, too, in Myanmar, but the general’s sarong was uniquely of a design worn by women.An Internet site run by the protesters urges sympathetic women worldwide to “post, deliver or fling” panties at any Burmese embassy.