Be glad your not a Swedish man!
05 October 2004, 10:36 AM
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Be glad your not a Swedish man!
Lifted from Yahoo news - great for the oddest news articles in the world!
A group of Swedish parliamentarians has proposed levying a "man tax" to cover the social cost of violence against women.
"It must be obvious to all of us that society has a huge problem with male violence against women and that has a cost," Left Party deputy Gudrun Schyman told Swedish radio on Monday.
"We must have a discussion where men understand they as a group have a responsibility," said Schyman, one of the party members to sign the motion for debate on the new tax.
Sweden already has the highest taxes in the European Union as a percentage of gross domestic product to pay for its famous but hard-pushed cradle-to-grave welfare program.
It is also one of the world's most advanced nations in terms of gender equality, but Schyman said in a headline-hitting 2002 speech that discrimination in Sweden followed "the same pattern" as in Afghanistan under the Taliban.
They should start feeding their women Stella - that'll even things up a bit
A group of Swedish parliamentarians has proposed levying a "man tax" to cover the social cost of violence against women.
"It must be obvious to all of us that society has a huge problem with male violence against women and that has a cost," Left Party deputy Gudrun Schyman told Swedish radio on Monday.
"We must have a discussion where men understand they as a group have a responsibility," said Schyman, one of the party members to sign the motion for debate on the new tax.
Sweden already has the highest taxes in the European Union as a percentage of gross domestic product to pay for its famous but hard-pushed cradle-to-grave welfare program.
It is also one of the world's most advanced nations in terms of gender equality, but Schyman said in a headline-hitting 2002 speech that discrimination in Sweden followed "the same pattern" as in Afghanistan under the Taliban.
They should start feeding their women Stella - that'll even things up a bit
05 October 2004, 11:44 AM
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Strangely this 'Gudrun' is a woman ...... you can visit her officuial page at http://www.riksdagen.se/folkvald/led...Schyman_en.htm - in case you want to let her know your opinions ....
As for responsilbilities .... has she never sussed that men and women ar different - and not just physically?
Dave
PS: and I wouldn't hit a 'girlie' either .... :-)
As for responsilbilities .... has she never sussed that men and women ar different - and not just physically?
Dave
PS: and I wouldn't hit a 'girlie' either .... :-)
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