men & women

[Rob Schaap]

>At 02:52 PM 09/06/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>>I was at a party last night and we all got to talking about the recent pole
>>done by FHM magazine regarding men's treatment of women worldwide. The men
>>of South Africa were ranked the greatest assholes in the world, Australians
>>came in second, American men 3rd. German men,
>
>This kind of reminds me of a little snippet from Marx...I forget WHERE it's
>from...but he said something about how, if you don't have that much time,
>one way to figure out the relative degree of civilization anywhere in the
>world,  is to look at the relations obtaining between men and women.
>
>The other thing that's notable is that the all the men that earned the
>asshole medals were from "settler" states... Is that worth pursuing?
>
>I had a German boyfriend. He was one of the nicest (and most relaxed)
>boyfriends I ever had. (He was also a communist.)

I'm sure he was, Joanna - and what, pray, were the criteria by which we
stand condemned?  I ask because I am not having any great trouble coming up
with lands in which I would less like to be a woman than in this one.

Cheers,
Rob.