News / Polish cleaner claims sexual assault is OK in rural Poland [31]

I honestly don't mean to defend the guy, but his explanation did ring true with me.
In a village in Poland where I spent a lot of time, there were few old, and I mean old old men, who considered it their God given right to pinch a girl's ass if they thought she was wiggling it at them, or was scantily dressed, or sometime if she just got close enough.

The experience provided me with a very first insight into male mind, especially when social norms are being stripped by dimentia, and taught me to be mindful of what others think, even though outwardly I pretended I didn't care.

Women, of course, angrily yelled at the old men if they saw it happen, but then they turned to the girls and admonished them, too. This is not a game, was the message.

I'm not saying this whole thing isn't warped, but I'm often reminded of these old men, especially when seeing pictures of children's beauty peagents, or even just how young girls are portrayed in commercials.

News / Polish cleaner claims sexual assault is OK in rural Poland [31]

why are they talking about pinching, then?
Pinching asses is considered sexual assault, and I think if done at the bottom edge of the shorts, it's called groping inside the shorts.

News / Polish cleaner claims sexual assault is OK in rural Poland [31]

still.. inconsistencies..
This is what he was sentenced for:
Szczepan Majcherczyk was jailed for 21 months for inappropriately propositioning a female student and pinching the behinds of three strangers in public.

News / Polish cleaner claims sexual assault is OK in rural Poland [31]

I'm unclear on one thing: is groping and pinching the same thing?
In the first line, they call it "a spate of bottom pinching".
In the rest of the article they call it groping. While both are reprehensible, groping is more of a "blindly feeling about", which in my opinion is much worse.

So, was he pinching, and reporters preferred more sensationalistic word, or was he groping and the title was meant to minimize it?

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


Read all my comments on this thread. If you can't find my position there, then you are lost. And stop pushing your idiotic video, and agenda.

Rysavy, don't bother. He waits for months for somebody to take the bait and try talking to him about feminists. His entire point is to provoke women..

This one really applies to him:
"Most of the men these anti-women websites are catering to are the guys that cannot accept that men and women should have an equal say in a relationship, or (God forbid!) that the women can make more money than they do.

Because they cannot get past their ingrained stereotypes, their relationships suffer, and in order not to feel emasculated, they conjure and image of a woman as butch or obnoxiously feminist. And internet offers much validation in that direction, if one is looking for it.

But, if a man truly believes that women are more likely to initiate violence than men, then there might be some personal experience that led him to this point.

Even though all the statistics and logistics, such as social roles, upbringing, reproductive physiology, physical strength comparisons etc. lean in favor of woman being a victim, no one is saying that men cannot be victims too. I'm sure it must be comforting for an abused man to learn that he is not alone.

Maybe we should be more compassionate.
Zimmy, for example, is quick to point out his great successes with women, but the websites he's stuck on suggest otherwise."

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


In case you are puzzled, your specific bits are not worth commenting on, since you are the one incapable of hearing honest criticism.

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


which laws?

And to you, Zimmy, you say words that mean nothing. Everything you spew can be used by the other side of an argument. Check this out:

Anti-feminists don't want to hear anything that contradicts their Pavlovian anti-feminist beliefs. It's 'difficult' hearing and seeing something which contradicts them. Anti- feminists don't give a hoot about female concerns. It's all about them so viewing something which more fully explains real circumstances is difficult.


AGAIN, it should be transparent you choose radical feminism to discredit legitimate efforts to allow women equal rights.

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


ok, I'll take it as sarcasm.
Next: do you think they would have won that right without a feminist movement?

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


No, I have no intention of watching videos that try to re-define what feminism is.
Again, try to concentrate on all the good that feminist movement did.
Do you need a reminder?
Let's start with this: do you think women should have a right to vote?

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


don't worry, polonius, unfortunately, there are still women out there that you can pay for.

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

this is the sort of stupidity that is used to deflect from the real purpose of feminism.
If you're totally unaware of women's struggle, then there is nothing I can help you with.

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

There is a lot of this going on - redefing a term to suit ones own agenda. And then conditioning fools to react to it, like Pavlov's dogs. They did it to another wonderful word - liberal, and turned it into something completely different. Conservative brainwashing.

Look up the definition of feminism in dictionary and compare it to your own to see how skewed it has become.

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


I think those questions are a laughably veiled reasons why polonius believes that men and women are not equal, and a sad proof that he does not understand what feminism means.

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

Most of the men these anti-women websites are catering to are the guys that cannot accept that men and women should have an equal say in a relationship, or (God forbid!) that the women can make more money than they do.

Because they cannot get past their ingrained stereotypes, their relationships suffer, and in order not to feel emasculated, they conjure and image of a woman as butch or obnoxiously feminist. And internet offers much validation in that direction, if one is looking for it.

But, if a man truly believes that women are more likely to initiate violence than men, then there might be some personal experience that led him to this point.

Even though all the statistics and logistics, such as social roles, upbringing, reproductive physiology, physical strength comparisons etc. lean in favor of woman being a victim, no one is saying that men cannot be victims too. I'm sure it must be comforting for an abused man to learn that he is not alone.

Maybe we should be more compassionate.
Zimmy, for example, is quick to point out his great successes with women, but the websites he's stuck on suggest otherwise.

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


no Zimmy, it is you that cannot accept an opinion different from yours. You have to get your head out of the anti-women side of the internet and start thinking for yourself.

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

" It's important to remember that feminism is no longer a group of organizations or leaders. It's the expectations that parents have for their daughters, and their sons, too. It's the way we talk about and treat one another. It's who makes the money and who makes the compromises and who makes the dinner. It's a state of mind. It's the way we live now. "

Study / Fake degree in Poland - legal consequence? [9]

what are your assumptions? That the that advanced degree universities will not check, or that the Polish University will be too confused to reply? Or are you asking what is the penalty for forgery on application for masters degree?

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

I don't know where Polonius got his statistics from, but I firmly believe his list should read most to least.
Below is the closest official statistic I could find.

According to the U.S. Department of Justice, between 1998 and 2002:

Of the almost 3.5 million violent crimes committed against family members, 49% of these were crimes against spouses.
84% of spouse abuse victims were females, and 86% of victims of dating partner abuse at were female.
Males were 83% of spouse murderers and 75% of dating partner murderers

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


I think you hit the nail on the head right there!
First, we have to define what feminism is. What do you think it means?
If feminism is putting down women that choose to stay home and raise their children, then I don't support it either.
Consider this example: word Patriotism has been similarly defiled by extreme or fringe groups, which would like it to mean that if you don't agree with some government decision, you're not a patriot. Or by white supremacist, which would like it to mean that only whites can be patriots.

Forgive me if I don't watch your links.. I have a feeling they all try to re-inforce the negative stereotypes, in order to discredit all the work women organizations accomplished, from women vote to peace efforts.

ok, I tried.. I barely got through one portion of first video, and I have to ask - do you really think feminists want to be the first ones off the boat? And, that is the reason they should not be paid same money for the same work? What kind of stupidity is this? And what kind of men are buying into this?

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

well said, Englishman.


wanting to control another person is not a sexist issue, it is an unfortunate human issue.
Avoid control freaks, those are not hard to spot.
Also, watch out for passive-aggressives, those are a big pain, too.

News / Dirty deeds of foreign guys in Poland [98]

this made me think; is kicking a rat inhumane? How about those rat traps - sometimes they do not kill instantly and a mouse thrashes there for a while. Poisoning them I'm sure is not a more humane way to go...

So, I think what makes it acceptable or not, is time and place, not the act itself.
Pigeons are in public areas, often recreational, and we do not want to see any unpleasantries there. Anything dead in city square is not acceptable. Basements are another game, entirely. ;)

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


When something like that is put forth, it becomes clear that the poster is not interested in anyone's opinion but his own.

It makes me wonder.. why would he imagine feminists foaming at the mouths?

Anyway, ask yourselves this: since feminism is the social movement seeking political, economic, and social equality of both sexes, why does it anger men so much?

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

links Zimmy shows are hateful lies.
Any effort to help abused women he interprets as hatred for men. He also believes that men are abused by women as often as women are abused by men.

Here are some real statistics: in US, one in 5 women is abused, men: one in 71.

splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2012/spring/myths-of-the-manosphere-lying-about-women#.UcCNvvllk5Q

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

Polonius, what is a professional feminist?

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

Polonius' choice of words for the title of this thread; "Professional feminists".. whom, exactly does he mean?

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]


with comments like this, it's clear that your knowledge of those times comes mostly from the movies.
Maybe this will make it clearer: many Poles, as long as they were getting paid, considered the risk worth it. Once the payments stopped, the risk became unacceptable.

You also seem to have no clue why the Jewish family was so mad at my father's family after the war. Think hard.

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]

Listen to the stories of old people that lived through the occupation. After they're gone, all you're going to have left are the spins, second hand stories with an agenda.

My father remembers his family hiding a prominent Jewish family during the war. He even wrote a glorious story about it, through the eyes of a young boy. He didn't include a post script though. After the war over, when his mother contacted the Jewish family, now returned to prominence, the Jewish family was so angry, they would not even open their door, or have anything to do with them.

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]

This is horrible, and undoubtedly will anger some people here, but this is the truth. This morning I asked my mother about Polish people hiding Jews during the occupation.

This is what my mother, pragmatic extreme, said: "Yes, many Poles hid the Jews, some in underground bunkers I knew of. But once the gold that Jews had run out, they would be mysteriously found out."

Real Estate / Can the Poland's apartment building coop be forced to fix the building's front door? [6]

My guess would be that you might have better luck petitioning all the inhabitants of the co-op to be vigilant about closing the door.
If you want to play dirty, start urinating in the corridor each time you see that door ajar. ;)

Life / Don't Forget: Tomorrow, March 8 is Women's Day in Poland! [115]

I have him on ignore.
A while ago, I found him on some anti-feminist forum, and seriously, one would have to search far and wide to find a dumber and more maladjusted group of people anywhere.