Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]

FIA£KOWSKI: root-word fiałek - dalectal version of fiołek (violet - the flower). However since nearly all Polish surnames ending in -owski are of toponymic origin, most likely yours also goes back to the village of Fiałkowo in Mazowsze.

Life / Professional feminists' of Poland meet-up [631]

Genderism is a load of boll*cks. We are all human being first and foremost, then men or women, Brits or Bolivians, Christians or Buddhists, dentists, farmers, pen-pushers, etc. The genderism shtick is just a clever ploy to tap into funds provided by taxpayers' money. And those holding female masturbation classes can also count on a generous kickback from dildo producers.

Life / Professional feminists' of Poland meet-up [631]


That tells it all, not only in this particular case. In a broader sense, negative personal experience usually colours msot people's thinking. A Ukrainian whose grandfather was killed by a Pole defending his family during WW2, even though the Ukrainians were the anti-Polish aggressors, may later feel a dislike for Poles. And a Pole who had fingernails ripped off by one of Berman's Jewish communist henchmen is not likely to harbour positive feelings towards Jews.

It is extremely difficult to rise above the wrongs and unjustices one or one's loved ones have personally suffered.
So I truly empathise with any woman, any person regardless of gender, who has suffered domestic violence. And for the children that had to witness it!

Life / Professional feminists' of Poland meet-up [631]


Somebody already mentioned this... When a Polish male discovers or invents something the headline says 'Polish scientist...bla-bla.' When it's a female the headline goes 'Polish woman...bla-bla'. That is yet another of numrous examples of anti-male discrimination. The worst of it is that feminists don't even regard this as discrimination

So I repeat once again: Do you want full equality or only then when it's convenient, expedient and serves your one-sided causes?
If there are, as you claim, more wife-beaters than husband-beaters, then instead of whinging and whining head for the work-out gym, sign up for a fitness programme, learn judo and karate and give the old man a run for his money!

Life / Professional feminists' of Poland meet-up [631]


Yes, because the feminist movment did not exist back then. The suffragettes mainly wanted to be enfrnachuised (get the right to vote). They weren't into parity, gender studies, masturbation classes, changing the language (through their genderl-netural obsession, eg postperson, chairperson, humankind, fligh attendnat attendant, etc.) and other such feminist nonsense.

UK, Ireland / Britain's moral collapse? [99]


And I presume today's teens and early-20s are more polite than their paretns' generation?

Life / Professional feminists' of Poland meet-up [631]


No, i think they should be kept unschooled, barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen (LOL)!

UK, Ireland / Britain's moral collapse? [99]


So the media report was false? Fair enough. But I think the journalsit were nto comparing the UK to teh Czech Republic or Portugal but referring to an ongoing decline compared to the past. Do you see only total stabiltiy and no change in the qualtiy of British human interaction over the past several decades? I do not know, so I'll have to take your word for it.

UK, Ireland / Britain's moral collapse? [99]


I reckon youir fancy runs to the rude, crude and vulgar.

UK 'sinks into moral decline'
Rudness, drunkenness, swearing and littering are now so commonplace that 94 per cent of British adults have witnessed incidents.
More than half of us have seen younger people being rude to the elderly. And two-thirds of those questioned in a new poll say the UK is sinking into a moral decline as parents fail to raise their children with decent values.

express.co.uk/news/uk/368334/UK-sinks-into-moral-decline

Life / Professional feminists' of Poland meet-up [631]


I thought that was sexist and ad personam was gender-neutral.

Anyway, earlier today Zimmy asked a basic question which has been conveneitnly avoided: Can you point out any facts presented in that video which are false.? Don't generalize, please be specific. Just calling someone a misogynist doesn't cut it. Anyone can do that. I can call you a man-hater but that's not an argument.

UK, Ireland / Britain's moral collapse? [99]

Britain is in the middle of a "slow-motion moral collapse" that must be reversed... Prime Minister David Cameron has promised tough new measures to crack down on lawlessness and promote a responsible society.

He blamed social unrest like that of 2011 when ritoers rampaged across the UK on a culture of selfish indifference and greed.

Whatever he had in mind, the point is anyoen can test if society is in decay. Is a given street as safe as it was to walk down as it was a decade or two ago. If you leave a bike on the front porch will it still be there the next day? A sure sign is the crime, suicide and divorce rate as well as the spread of premature youth initiation and the decline of school curricula.

Life / Professional feminists' of Poland meet-up [631]

Ad personam is a great way to try and confuse the issue when one runs out of arguments. What specifically in the films about favouritism shown women do you disagree with? The Titanic and burning house episode? Or are you saying the film lies about Wimbledon situation? Or are you saying the film isn't lying but women deserve handicaps, extra points, special consideration and/or preferential treatment simply because they are...well, women.

Life / Professional feminists' of Poland meet-up [631]


A struggle to eat their cake and still have it. No, girlies, you can't have it both ways. Coś za coś.

Life / Professional feminists' of Poland meet-up [631]


Definitions are one thing, but how they are actually practised is what really counts. Just to prove the point -- are you in favour of true partiy and total equality across the board? Equal pay, yes, but also equal representation not only in parliament but also in sports and all occupations including changing tyres at the PKS coach station?

How can anyone in favour of gender equality condone giving women the same prizes as men in professional tennis for fewer matches and poorer performance. So don't send us off to dictionaries, please, but do explain how skewed feminist inequality can be called equality.

You must take your queues from Orwell's 'Animal Farm' where everybody was equal except some were more equal than others. Sounds like the feminist credo!

Life / Professional feminists' of Poland meet-up [631]


Feminism means promoting women's interests, gains and advances to the exclusion of everything else. Equality when it's convenient (like when cushy, prestigious, highly paid and decision-making post and involved) and inequality (such as sports and physically strenuous jobs) when women cannot measure up.

Genealogy / The last name is Krzywoszyja. Help? Am I Polish? [30]

KRZYWOSZYJA: This is a Polish name in terms of spelling and word formation and means crooked or bent neck. There are a number of such descriptive nicknames-turned-surnames in Poland including Krzywonos (crooked nose), Nosal (big nose), Paluch (big finger), Paluszek (little finger), Kuternoga (clubfoot), £okietek (pint-sized), etc. Sometimes body parts are without a qualifier such as Głowa, Oko, Noga and Ręka but they probably emerged because of someone's prominent or unusual features.

There are a couple dozen Krzywoszyjas in Poland, the most living in southern Poland's Beskid Mt area near Bielsko-Biała bordering Slovakia.
The swarthiness and raven hair you have described may suggest Wallachian or Gypsy roots.

News / Success: 120 of Polish Pesa trams for Moscow! [19]


That's an interesting point. I've heard Polish farmers desptie EU subsidies are nto able to spread their wings. At the so-called famrers' markets in Warsaw at least the vendors get their produce from the same wholesale warehouses Tesco, Carrefour and Leclerk and Biedronka do.

One doesn't see farmer's bringing fruit and vegetables in their little Żuk vans (one time it was furmanki - horse carts) to these markets that much anymore.

TV has in the past shown farmers saying they can't find pickers willing to work for so little to make selling the strawberries proftiable, so they plough over their fields. And yet strawbreries are brough in from North Africa and elsewhere and, despite transport costs, can ber sold at a profit. Could that be a marketing strategy to drive Polish producers out of business? Can anyone explain?


Very positive. I'm sure every other PF-er is also happy to learn Poland is finally making even the smallest mark on the world.

Life / Professional feminists' of Poland meet-up [631]


In a pinch, one can understand apartheid in physical competion but chess? Are women admitting their brain power cannot compete with that of males?

News / Success: 120 of Polish Pesa trams for Moscow! [19]

Anyone heard about Mr Kluska and Optima? He was really shafted by the new economics. BTW would you know of any other Polish economic success stories? Pesa and Solaris are obvious. Orlen operates a chain of petrol stations in Germany. Anything else on that order? Supposedly Polish apple pulp is exported world-wide and is found in apple juice produced in many different countries.

Life / Professional feminists' of Poland meet-up [631]

A lot fo ideas have been bandied about in this thread, so maybe it's time for one straightforward question. Are you for:

-- full parity (an equal number of women in parliament, government and all workplaces)?
-- abandoning men's and women's categories in the Olympic games and all sporting competitions?

If so, why? If not, why not?

Life / Professional feminists' of Poland meet-up [631]


Rates of physical partner violence victimization are higher among gay men than heterosexual men.2, 4

sp2.upenn.edu/ortner/docs/factsheet_ipvinsamesexrelationships.pdf

Life / Professional feminists' of Poland meet-up [631]


The fewest acts of domestic violence (from least to most) take place in:
-- in the households of sacrametnally married parents
-- in the households of parents married in civil ceremonies,
-- in the households of informal hetero partnerships (konkubinaty);
-- in the households of same-gender partnerships.

Anyone who doubts this is free to surf the net. If not interested, don't bothter.

Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]

Unfortunately, the closest i coudl fund was Kojo, Kojno and Kojonka whcih probably were derived form the verb koić (to calm, soothe. relax).

Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]

SO£DEŃSKI: comes from the German word Sold (soldier's pay) which was the origin of the Polish word żołd (soldier's pay). Sołdeński might have been coined to identify an army paymaster or someone associated with soldiers in some way. It could have also arisen as a toponymic tag for someone hailing from the village of Sołdany.

Life / Professional feminists' of Poland meet-up [631]


Believe it or not, I fullly agree with you on that one.
The only problem is that in secular legal terms (and you insist Poland is a secular state) what an organisaiton says it's supposed to be about (love, selflessness, compassion, sharing and forgiveness) is irrelevant. If it is a registered relgious organisation, NGO, public-benefit instituion or non-profit entity (names vary in different countries), then it is entitled to whatever exemptions those categoreis legally entail.

Life / Professional feminists' of Poland meet-up [631]


You should talk!!!!!! Sounds like your game plan and ground rules!

Life / Professional feminists' of Poland meet-up [631]


Some examples please. If you are right, then I'd have to agree with you. The downfall of ever ideal is egoism and self-itnerest.

Life / Professional feminists' of Poland meet-up [631]


Indeed. Liberal-leftist media repetition of such buzzwords as islamophobe, homophobe, anti-Semite, fascist, bigot, etc. have intimidated people who cannot think for themelves into submission or silence.