I don’t know about Scandinavian culture. My point is that some cultures like Spanish or Italian may display more machismo, but that doesn’t absolve other countries that are correcting the problem by containing it, like Amsterdam or here in the 🇺🇸 Nevada for example where prostitution (alias, women’s slavery to daily rapes and psychological abuse) is legal.
Hi Evelyne. I agree almost on everything except about the North argument. Amsterdam together with Germany are despicable examples of men’s self entitlement that produce much pain and suffering among “prostituted” or better enslaved women in brothels. Women go through daily rape with the consent of Dutch and German citizens and governments. There are so many of these cases all over the world of course. The stories that humanity has made up about who is the good or bad girl are appalling, but all of them go back to self entitlement and power. So, I do t think that the Northern countries are better. We’re ALL biased in this world unfortunately.
Hi Rita, appreciate your comment. Totally agree on Germany. Don't know enough about Amsterdam in that respect, but I've also never felt the need to travel there. I was thinking of skipping Germany and heading further north to Scandinavia where I've spent a lot of time. Might be biased yes, but it's a culture I feel more at ease with.
Great rant; loved it all. Feel the need to add, be grateful you live in Europe! Post Covid health care in the USA 🇺🇸 is profit driven, enormously expensive, and insurers are beginning to decline coverage! Having my last procedures done EVER. Because I cannot research anything without vision and that particular doctor seems interested and very competent. Will spend the time left to me at home researching homeopathic medicine, herbs and such, that I can understand and choose. Otherwise, have been told “nothing else can be done” for most issues having to do with aging. Worked in the field of your complaint, perimenopausal problems, etc. It is true that hormones or lack of same can result in weight gain. Don’t quote me because as a working girl, my team always told women that was an “old wives tale.” Well, guess what! It happened to me and I swear by experience. I gained weight and no amount of exercise will get that tummy like it was in earlier years. That’s getting older. No cure for that. You could be a candidate for hormone replacement therapy but did I read “endometriosis “? Perhaps not if so. Developing appropriate products can in no way be done using saline. But the endometrial lining is more than just blood so a group of study participants would have to be menstruating women. As for inappropriate touching, etc. I HATE MEN LIKE TRUMP GRABBING PUSSIES. Can you believe he made such a stupid remark and charged, indicted, still running for president? RIDICULOUS! But that’s a rant for another day. Once I located as did other Substackers the Constitutional Amendment that should prevent him from running for office, and found groups on it, like CREW, I’m leaving that topic to Constitutional scholars with expertise I simply don’t have. Going on to your next thoughtful diatribe; love them all!
Sadly, the human race will be extinct before we figure it out
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I don’t know about Scandinavian culture. My point is that some cultures like Spanish or Italian may display more machismo, but that doesn’t absolve other countries that are correcting the problem by containing it, like Amsterdam or here in the 🇺🇸 Nevada for example where prostitution (alias, women’s slavery to daily rapes and psychological abuse) is legal.
Of course not - and that's not what I said at all.
Hi Evelyne. I agree almost on everything except about the North argument. Amsterdam together with Germany are despicable examples of men’s self entitlement that produce much pain and suffering among “prostituted” or better enslaved women in brothels. Women go through daily rape with the consent of Dutch and German citizens and governments. There are so many of these cases all over the world of course. The stories that humanity has made up about who is the good or bad girl are appalling, but all of them go back to self entitlement and power. So, I do t think that the Northern countries are better. We’re ALL biased in this world unfortunately.
Hi Rita, appreciate your comment. Totally agree on Germany. Don't know enough about Amsterdam in that respect, but I've also never felt the need to travel there. I was thinking of skipping Germany and heading further north to Scandinavia where I've spent a lot of time. Might be biased yes, but it's a culture I feel more at ease with.
Great rant; loved it all. Feel the need to add, be grateful you live in Europe! Post Covid health care in the USA 🇺🇸 is profit driven, enormously expensive, and insurers are beginning to decline coverage! Having my last procedures done EVER. Because I cannot research anything without vision and that particular doctor seems interested and very competent. Will spend the time left to me at home researching homeopathic medicine, herbs and such, that I can understand and choose. Otherwise, have been told “nothing else can be done” for most issues having to do with aging. Worked in the field of your complaint, perimenopausal problems, etc. It is true that hormones or lack of same can result in weight gain. Don’t quote me because as a working girl, my team always told women that was an “old wives tale.” Well, guess what! It happened to me and I swear by experience. I gained weight and no amount of exercise will get that tummy like it was in earlier years. That’s getting older. No cure for that. You could be a candidate for hormone replacement therapy but did I read “endometriosis “? Perhaps not if so. Developing appropriate products can in no way be done using saline. But the endometrial lining is more than just blood so a group of study participants would have to be menstruating women. As for inappropriate touching, etc. I HATE MEN LIKE TRUMP GRABBING PUSSIES. Can you believe he made such a stupid remark and charged, indicted, still running for president? RIDICULOUS! But that’s a rant for another day. Once I located as did other Substackers the Constitutional Amendment that should prevent him from running for office, and found groups on it, like CREW, I’m leaving that topic to Constitutional scholars with expertise I simply don’t have. Going on to your next thoughtful diatribe; love them all!