could Swiss patriarchy be linked to the fact that every male citizen is given a gun? (the citizen militia.)
On 10/30/06, Yoshie Furuhashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 10/30/06, Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was asking _why_ Swiss sexism succeeds so severely. That I don't know. I merely added one more fact that needs explaining. It's interesting that Switzerland, the birthplace of Jean Jacques Rousseau, actually was one of the nations that turned to democracy much earlier than many other nations in Europe.
-- Jim Devine / "War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, / The lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade, / And, to those royal murderers, whose mean thrones / Are bought by crimes of treachery and gore, / The bread they eat, the staff on which they lean." -- Percy B. Shelley
