What I see here is that Danish men are having a hard time giving up their masculine privileges and short-circuit at having to deal with women as equals. Meanwhile, women are still serving in care-taking roles, only now they get paid for what they had done at home for nothing.
If I follow the logic of this message, it says that there is some kind of association between women caretaking boys to age 15 and an increase in homosexual marriage. I bet that conclusion is based on years of exhaustive scientific research. Wait til the Christian Coalition gets word!
As for intestinal problems and short life-spans, maybe someone ought to check out what those Danes are eating, drinking and smoking.
In solidarity, Michael E.
At 08:41 PM 8/28/1998 -0400, Doug Henwood wrote:
>Barkley said the other day that Danish women were among the best-off in the
>world. Here's a different view, in a letter in the new Economist:
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>The old-fashioned way
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>SIR - Anne Marie Berggren (Letters, August 15th) forgets to mention the
>reverse side of women's liberation in Scandinavia. "Good-quality childcare"
>means that children in kindergartens and schools are under the control of
>women, who account for 90% of the staff, until the age of15. Boys are
>brainwashed to be sweet and gentle like girls and to avoid rough games.
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>We have more homosexual marriages and a lower sperm count than anywhere
>else. At the age of 40 men suffer from stress and nervous disorders, and
>spend more on medicines for stomach cramps and indigestion than men
>anywhere else. The life span for Danish men has diminished to 67 years, one
>of the lowest in the western world.
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>More and more men are going to far-away places to find wives with
>old-fashioned ideas of love and understanding. His Royal Highness Prince
>Joakim went to Hong Kong to find an Anglo-Chinese wife.
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>Carl Eriksen
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>Skovlunde, Denmark
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