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Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Here's a translation. Forgive me if it's unclear (only partly my fault)!

Now I know what you do, thanks for your trust. So, does anyone study the discrimination, disrespect and humiliation of men, like you study sexism? Robbing fathers of their rights to care for their children? Does anyone investigate the methods women use: blackmail, emotional blackmail, fraud, extortion, slander? Has anyone ever noted the extraordinary privilege women have before the law? Bias in the courts? Does anyone mention out loud the women who castrate their partners and sons? What about legalized prostitution of wives? Raising other people's children as their own? I simply adore the stories in the press, things like "rape of a prostitute," or "rape of an employee who has been sleeping with her bosses for 2 years"! Wow! Is everyone in this country blind, or just stupid? Or maybe it's the taboo that shuts everyone up in this country, elevating the image of the near-holy Polish Mother above everything - hush over that coffin? The only things left are the Mother's purity, and the immaculate conception?

So if you are looking for equality, maybe it would be worth seeking equality on both sides?

I was just watching The African Queen. I watched this movie for the first time when I was a kid, maybe 12 years old. I like it a lot. When Bogart says to Hepburn: "You skinny, bony broad" I thought that maybe he took it too far, because she is a great little woman. Still, I like this film and am happy to come back to it from time to time. What I see in it, apart from heroism, attitudes and fortitude, is hope. By the way--if women were aware of the power they have... if they knew that guys can be meek as lambs, then instead of castrating their partners and sons they would try to be womanly women. But, it is also possible that guys deserve such treatment.

Regardless of everything that is written here: I believe that men only climbed down from the tree thanks to women.

Regards,

* in the English screenplay, the line is: You crazy, psalm-singin', skinny old maid.

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