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


Wow! I've never been called that before!
I was so engrossed in your list that I overlooked the link. Many dzięks. You learn something every day.

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


Would you be so kind as to brefly define each, please? Some seem obvious but I-feminiss (Internet?) and difference feminism? Does Christian feminism exist? There are such things as Christian socialism and Christian anthropology, after all.

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


Right on! The backlash to feminism has been caused by radical feminists who have launched a frontal attack on too many things. If they had concentrated on equal pay for equal job performance, they would have probably been more successful in that area and would enjoy wider public backing than trying to upset the apple cart. Instead they have attacked:

-- What they call the 'patriarchal' (meaning normal traditional) family, insisting that housekeeping and child-rearing are somehow demeaning and not worthy of a modern women, thereby alienating many females as well.

-- The language by insisting that time-honoured words and expressions be replaced with exotic thought-up neologisms: flight attendant, chairperson, humankind, etc. Will they soon be calling the manual gearbox the humanual transmission?

-- The Catholic Church which they accuse of discrimination for its fidelity to the tradition of the 12 Apostles. Will they soon be called 'apostlettes'? God the Father is to be replaced by God the Mother and Father...

- Alleged workplace inequality but bidding for cushy, well-paid, decision-making posts and leaving the hard, dirty and dangerous jobs to men. Ever heard any feminists clamouring to be allowed to work as 'dustpersons'?

-- The male half of the species with every manner of misandric notions and off-the-wall gender theories aimed at demeaning and emasculating males.
I am referring to RADICAL FEMINISTS with a chip on their shoulder, not ordinary women concerned about jobs opportunities, promotions, supporting their families. The radicals seem to be playing a game of one-upmanship, scoring points, always landing on top and trying to destroy the enemy.

Hey, we all have to live on this planet. And we are homo sapiens (sadly all too often only homo ludens!) first and foremost. Nationality, politics and gender are further down the line.

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


I reckon not, because I beleive we are ałł humans first and foremost. Nationality, gender, political preference, cigarette brand, car make, favourite sport, beloved delicacy,etc. are all secodnary or tertiary.

Women are people like everyone else and if they're up to it they can be lorry drivers, ditch diggers, orthopaedic surgeons, astronauts, IT specialists, CEOs, and yes -- even housewives. The rabid feminsits want to deny that option by downplaying or shortchanging it. There are women who would like nothing better than to run an ideal housegold, raise children and have a nice warm meal waiting for hubby when he gets home from work. If that provides self-fuilfilment, It's their choice! And no mannish femi-agitator can tell them otherwise!

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

Somebody tell us, what is it about women that they are constantly jabbering or nagging and have this thing about shoes? Shoes are just footwear, something to protect feet from different rough or cold surfaces. They're nothign special. Nothing to stare at or admire in shop widnows. When they wear out, you take them to a shoe repairer. When they cannot be mended, you buy the next pair. Thats' all there's to it. It's not some ritual or big deal!

History / Pre-war or today's Poland? [50]


Pas du tout! I am referring to POLISH INNOVATIONS, not copycat stuff, not assembling VW Caddies in Poznań and Opel Astras in Gliwice. Something Polish and original -- an authenticlaly Polish-inspired song (not Polish rap crap) that takes the world by storm, a new Polish-designed make of car that becomes a top seller, a fashion item inspried by traditonal Polish folk tapestries that becomes all the rage... And in sick and dissolute libertine Europe Polish family and religious traditions can also be an eye-opening innovation to those for whom Sunday is nothing more than a time for nursing a bad hangover,

smurf
Yes, Piłsudski was an authoritarian fiugre but there was no other choice. When he stepped aside for democracy to take hold and retired in Sulejówek, democracy soon degenerated into anarchy. The presdient was assassinated by a national demoratic fanatic, and three fanatical Jewish communsits gunned down a police official. 13 governments rose and fell between 1919 and 1926, and constant bikcering amongst numerous parties, including punch-ups and police called in to restore order created what Piułduski called Sejmokracja -- a parliamentary circus. All this in a georgaphically precarious country also faced with internal threats from subversive groups such as the KPP and Ukrainian terrorists. Who knows how Poland would have fared had he not carried out his May 1926 coup.

During war and other particularly threatening times, special measures are needed. And this is done in every democratic country as well, to mention only WW2-era Britian and post-7/11 America.

History / Pre-war or today's Poland? [50]


Is bottom of the totem pole low enough?

Who are the innovation leaders in the European Union?
Based on the Summary Innovation Index, the Member States fall into the following four country groups:
Innovation leaders: Sweden, Germany, Denmark and Finland, all show a performance well above that of the EU average.
Innovation followers: Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium, the UK, Austria, Ireland, France, Slovenia, Cyprus and Estonia all show a performance close to that of the EU average.

Moderate innovators: The performance of Italy, Spain, Portugal, Czech Republic, Greece, Slovakia, Hungary, Malta and Lithuania is below that of the EU average.
Modest innovators: The performance of Poland, Latvia, Romania and Bulgaria is well below that of the EU average.
ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/innovation/facts-figures-analysis/innovation-scoreboard

History / Pre-war or today's Poland? [50]

So you provide the updated innovation ranking. I did my bit,.

History / Pre-war or today's Poland? [50]

nationmaster.com/graph/eco_inn-economy-innovation

Poland is 34th in terms of innvoation and ahead of such innovation 'leaders' as Lithuania, Trinidad & Tobago, Costa Ricsa and Latvia. But below Hungary, Ukraine, Slovakia and Estonia. Impressive, eh?

History / Pre-war or today's Poland? [50]

Prove that's wrong! Put your money where your mouth is.

History / Pre-war or today's Poland? [50]

Isn't he one of those TV cooks liek Małkiewicz and (fomerly) the late Maciej Kuroń? There's also a cooking nun on Relgiia TV. But what does that have to do with anything?.

History / Pre-war or today's Poland? [50]

I realise that. You see the ersatz Poland, the copycat Poland, the non-innovative Poland capable only of imitating or at best only sligthly modifying alien designs, lifestyles and behaviour and you think that's how things should be. If you don't run exclusively with expat circles then you most likely interact with the citified buraki that worship at the altar of Brussels. Is a Xeroxed popculture all Poland can gvie to the rest of the world? Is assembling foreign-designed cars the best Poles can do? Poland is quite low on the innovation scale, and you probably think that's good. I do not.

History / Pre-war or today's Poland? [50]

The tight-knit family, the role of the Church, respect for tradition and patriotism are what the real Poland is all about. And these are the very things our crazy mixed-up, cacophonic world needs to calm the turbuletnnwaters of moral decay and social anarchy. Praising a Polish hiphot performer is pretty lame, because he is merely regurgitating foreign influence. The Irish have theri Riverdance which made a world-wide splash. Something genuinely Polish that makes it in the world is what's needed, not more cheap imitations.

History / Pre-war or today's Poland? [50]


Communist propaganda lies! The 2nd Republiihad to protect itself agaisnt communist subversives (like Ozjasz Szechter and Bolesław Bierut), Ukrainian terrorists and Nazi Volksdeutsche and a preventive detetnion centre was needed for that purpsoe. People think of concentration camps in terms of Nazi gas chambers and creamtorium ovens. Only Polanohpobes use every opportuntiy to besmirch Poland's good name at every turn. We see that on PF all the time.

History / Pre-war or today's Poland? [50]

It's right here: programpis.org.pl
Unless, that is, yoru Polish isn't good enough to grasp it all.

History / Pre-war or today's Poland? [50]

Check the PiS website if interested. I only feel the general vibes of sweeping away the crud and scum. Exactly how they plan to go about it is what the PiS website will tell you. Good reading!

History / Pre-war or today's Poland? [50]

Now all that remains is to compare the glorious Fourth Republic with tinhorn Tuskite Poland. Natrually we shouild wait until the PiS-led camp has had their 8 full years to carry out their programmes. Tak nam dopomóż Bóg!

History / Pre-war or today's Poland? [50]

And a far better and safer neighbourhood. This little anecdote has lost much of its centuries-old currency...
When God was creating the world He said: 'And yes, the Poles -- I will give them a land of flowing with milk and honey, rich grainfields, lush forests teeming with game, lakes and rivers full of fish, natural resources such as coal, copper, silver and sulphur, scenic mountains, an impressive seacoast, rolling green meadows and beautfiul blonde-haired maidens...' A little angel witnessing the process pipes up: 'But aren't the Poels getting too much of a good thing.? God replies: 'Just wait till you see who I give them for neighbours'. .

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


I guess they're right after all.

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

Again you're skiriting the issue dragging someone's mother into it. Equal pay for equal performance? Of course! But if an employee works let's say 2,000 hours a year, but a female employee is not performign at peak level for 40 hours a year (due to the menstrual cycle alone, let alogn pregnancy), then should the employer suffer because of it?

Let's not be so emotional. Some people claim you can't seriosuly discuss anything with a woman, because they fly off the handle, but I am still trying.

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

Unfortunately, I don't recall you addressing the maternity, mensrtual and PMS issues which I've only just raised. What form of compensation or incentive could an employer expect for the production losses and disorganisation this could cause? I don't think anyone on PF has raised that question.

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


That's precisely the problem: something you disagree with becomes a red rag to a bu--...,,er, um (not to offend your genderist sensitivity) cow and that absolves you in your opinion from answering a question. Slogans, buzzwords and labels are not arguments. They are knee-jerk reactions which do not move the discussion ahead.

If I say, as I have, the we are human beings first and foremost and men or women secodnarily and you disagree, then say why you think gender is so important.

I believe there should be equal pay for equal job performance. But the employer is mainly concerend about output and cost effectvieness. What should he do about maternity leaves and monthly indispositon and PMS which may disorganise the workplace? Who is to pay for the production losses and disorganisation caused by female employees of reproductvie age? Again that's not an attack, those are legitimate questions which should be answered. Why can't they be calmly discussed?

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


It's part of the overall tactic. If they can't refute the facts and can't stand the truth or anything that runs coutner to their prejudices, they start hurling labels about and try to intimdate, humiliate or shame their discussion partners. If the partners are imervious to their name-calling and veiled threats, then they will try to find ways to suppress opimionms they disagree with by calling it 'hate speech', saying the topic has been exchausted and no-one is interested, shutting down a thread or otherwise muzzling free speech.

That applies no only to feminism but to all the component parts of the leftist utopianist culture war including attacks on the traditonal family, Church and other cornerstones of a healthy society.

On PF the very same pattern has repeated itself time and again, as anyone willing to scroll back can plainly see.

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

KRZESIŃSKI: yes, this is a name of toponymic origin traceable to the Wielkopolska (West Poland) village of Krzesiny (no accent over the 'n') , originally Krzesin, founded as a gentry-owned village in 1294. Its etymology can be traced to the Old Polish verb krzesić (modern Polish: krzesać) which means to strike sparks. The word krzesiwo means the fllitn and steel struck together to start a fire. Perhaps we might roughly translate the village's name as Strikespark, Sparkville or Sparkington.

SOCHOWSKI: root-word probably socha (primitive wooden plough); but nearly all -owski ending surnames are of toponymic orgin so this one most likely emerged to identify someone from Sochów or Sochowo (Ploughville?).

KOSAKIEWICZ: the -wicz ending tells us this is a last name of patronymic origin (son of somebody), in this case 'the Cossack's son'. Kozakiewicz is the more common spelling.

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

PODOLAK: this surname originated to describe an inhabitant of the SE region of Podole (Podolia), now in Ukraine or (as some see it), Ukrainian-occupied Poland.

MA£UGA: root-word mały (little, small, tiny); one of many surnames incorporating this root; others include Małysz, Małek, Malec, Malesa, Małocha, Malusi , etc. In English too there are surnames a such as Small and Little.

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

KOSZTELLA (?): No-one at present uses that surname, although they may have done in the past. Only 1 person signs himself Kosztela is living in the Katowice area. Possible derivation: the word koszt (cost, expenditure) or perhaps the localities of Kosztowa, Kosztowo or Kosztowy. Less likely but not impossible, this might have been the polonised version of the Anglo-Norman name Costello which made its way into Ireland. Maybe one of tis bearers made it over to Poland.

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


Cooepration nto interference. When the family, school and church worked together to bring kids up, it was an entirely different ball game. Now that popcommercialist brainwashing is so ubiquitous child rearing has become extremely difficult to say the least. It is the neo-religion of popcommercialism that is interfering and most people don't even realise it. That's what makes it so perfidious.

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


It's not enough to be a baptised Catholic. If the family, school and church are failing to get their message across, then its their approach, not the moral principles that are at fault. The basic fault is lack of cooepration amongst the above-mentioned three instituions. If each is pulling in a different direction, then the resultant moral confusion is obvious.

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


This was about the British PM talking about his country's moral collapse. It was not an exercise in comparative statsitics involving Peru, Canada, Switzerland or Vietnam. Other than those who mentioned multi-culti as a prime factior, few have tried to analyse what is behind the collapse in morals, the spread of impoliteness, foul language, getting p*ssed in public, etc. In other words, what or who was it that inclined Brits to become lax and negligent. The US has plenty of problems but that's not at issue here. Start a new thread on that, if you want.

Harry
What then IS your solution to the teenage pregancy problem? You know mine is a solid Cahtilic upbringing. What do your kind propose?
Still, teenage pregnancy was only one aspect of what your beloved PM was talking about. What about the rest?
Do you agree that multi-culti is a major factor like some poster's do and a predominantly whtie Chrsitian Britain would have far fewer problems?