Friday, February 15, 2008

"Bitterfittan" about equality

Reading the book "Bitterfittan" at the moment. Not sure how to properly translate the title in to English, so I will not bother. I will just say that the word "bitter" is exactly the same thing in English - "bitter". "Fitta" means "pussy".

Many great points are made in that book. Nothing new, but well worth mentioning, over and over again, is:

How are we supposed to get to an equal society, when we can't even live equally with the ones that we love?

In todays Swedish society, most women do double work. They do paid work and then they go home and do the unpaid house work. This results in many women being tired, stressed, overworked, depressed. If we lived equally, and men took as much responsibility for the children and the housework, then women wouldn't be all that.

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