17:00 Lois føler sig meget søvnig, og hun vil hellere ikke deltage i
aftenens bibelseminar i Brockworth. Hun ringer til sin ven, Ken, og bede ham at
køre forbi og afhente den kuffert, der indeholder alt, hvad du behøver for at
lave te og kaffe, også kiks osv, til seminarets deltagere.
18:00 Vi spiser aftensmad og bruger aftenen på at se lidt fjernsyn. De
viser en interessant dokumentarfilm, ”Women, Sex and Society”, der handler om kampen
for kvinders rettigheder, og især om den måde, denne kamp er blevet
dokumenteret i film og på fjernsyn. Programmets vært er den charmerende
historiker, Helen Castor.
Det er interessant, at nutidens feminister ikke kigger tilbage på denne
kamp med stor tilfredsstillelse, på trods af kvindebevægelsens mange bedrifter.
For eksempel, suffragetterne, der i
begyndelsen af 1900-tallet kæmpede for kvinders stemmeret og ligeberettigelse i
England, dannede en sand og alvorlig terrorbevægelse, især fra 1912, og
brandstiftelse blev til bevægelsens vigtigste våben. Men imaget af bevægelsen
fokuserer først og fremmest på de kvinder, der lænkede sig til rækværk, hvilket
faktisk ikke ret ofte skete. Det ligner situationen i 1960’erne og 1970’erne,
da medierne satte fokus på de kvinder, der brændte deres BH’er – du godeste,
sikke et vanvid!
Medierne karakteriser de tidlige suffragetter, som fjollede kvinder
der
lænkede sig til rækværk – uha!
Kvindebevægelsen droppede sin kamp i 1914, da den første verdenskrig brød
ud, og medlemmerne gjorde alt, de kunne, for at hjælpe den nationale
krigsindsats, og bevægelsen blev belønnet i 1918, da folketinget vedtog
kvinders stemmeret. Men nutidens feminister kan ikke lide den idé, at
stemmeretten var en slags ”belønning” for at have opført sig som ”artige småpiger”
under krigen – du godeste!
Var kvinders stemmeret bare en ”belønning”
for
at have været ”artige småpiger” under krigen???
Programmets vært, den charmerende Helen Castor, tror, at hver sejr for kvinder
i det 20. århundrede blev fulgt af en
modreaktion fra mænd. For eksempel, udviklingen af p-pillerne i 1960’erne gav
kvinder en ny frihed, men den overbeviste mænd også om, at kvinder konstant var
seksuelt til rådighed. Samtidig blev
reklamer pludselig meget mere åbenbar sexistiske.
Reklamer blev pludseligt meget mere sexistisk –
du
godeste, sikke en redelighed!!!!
Det er interessant, at p-pillerne oprindeligt var udviklet for at
kontrollere befolkningsvækst i den tredje verden, men det var kvinder i den
vestlige verden, der var mest friske på, at bruge dem – uha!
Helen tror, at der var en tredje fase af kvindebevægelsen i 1990’erne, der
for første gang involverede kvinder, der ikke var hvide, men det er Lois og jeg
er ikke overbevist om. Vi bemærkede ikke denne fase , men det kan være, at det
er fordi vi begge er hvide.
Mænds modreaktion fortsætter i dag i form af anonyme internet trolls, der
fornærmer kendte kvinder online – du godeste, sikke en skør verden vi lever i
!!!!!
22:00 Vi går i seng – zzzzz!!!
04:30 Jeg står tidligt op og laver én af mine
rutinemæssige danske ordforrådtester. Bagefter skynder jeg mig ind i køkkenet
og laver to kopper te. Jeg bringer dem op på vores soveværelse og kryber
tilbage i vores seng. Vi drikker teen og står op.
09:30 Vi skal af sted. Vi tager bussen ind i byen. Vi kigger ind i Thomas
Cook rejsebureauet og henter 1000 danske
kroner, som vi vil tage med, når vi ved juletid flyver til København. Vi går videre
til Waterstones-boghandleren og køber
børnebøger og kunstværksmaterialer som julegaver til vores børnebørn i
Australien. Vi vil afsende dem med post til Sarah, vores yngste datter, der bor
i Perth.
Mens vi er i boghandleren, ser jeg en kunde, der vil gerne købe en bog, der
handler om det danske begreb om ”Hygge”, der for tiden er meget populær i
Storbritannien. Jeg hører ekspeditøren råde kunden til at hvordan man udtaler
ordet ”hygge”, men hans udtale kun svarer omtrentligt til den rigtige – du godeste!
Jeg overvejer at rette fejlen, men jeg beslutter at holde kæft – du godeste!
Jeg vil ikke ydmyge boghandlermedhjælperen – jeg er så flink !!!!
Jeg har læst, at Oxford English Dictionary har overvejet at vælge ”hygge”
som årets ord for 2016, men til sidst valgte de ”post-truth”, der afspejler, at
følelser er vigtigere end kendsgerninger i politiske kampagner (Brexit, Trumps
sejr osv), der involverer internettet. Du
godeste, sikke en skør verden vi lever i
!!!!
11:00 Vi tager bussen hjem igen.
11:30 Vi kører over til Leckhampton og smutter ind i CookShop for at købe 4
færdigretter. Bagefter drikker vi en kop
kaffe og spiser et stykke kage i butikkens café. Det er meget nostalgisk at
være på CookShops café igen. For to år siden plejede vi at medbringer Sarahs
tvillinger til denne butik de dage, vi passede på dem – lykkelige tider!!!!
Vi drikker en kop kaffe i dag i CookShops café
tilbageblik til april 2014: Vi sidder i CookShops café
sammen med Sarahs
tvillinger – lykkelige dage!
Vi kører hjem og jeg går i seng. Jeg tager mig en
kort eftermiddagslur – zzzzz!!!!!
15:00 Jeg står op og vi slapper af med en kop te på
sofaen. Jeg kigger lidt på nettet og jeg læser en interessant nyhed, der
handler om forhistoriske menneskelige rester, der blev fundet af en dansk
forsker, Peter W. Lund, i Sydamerika for 173 år siden.
I 1840 sendte Peter W. Lund menneskeknoglerne
hjem til kongens samling
i København, og i dag befinder de
sig på Zoologisk Museum – du godeste!!!
Forskning går
langsomt fremad på Københavns Universitet – det har jeg ikke nogen tvivl om !!!
Til sidst (efter 173 år!) er universitetet ved at færdiggøre en DNA-analyse der
vil vise, hvordan den allertidligste indvandring til Amerika fandt sted.
De vil i sidste
ende kunne kaste lys over, hvordan det sydamerikanske kontinent blev indtaget
af de første mennesker. Det vil sige i hvor mange bølger, af hvilke grupper,
hvornår befolkningerne splittedes, og hvordan de er beslægtede, forklarer Peter
de Barros Damgaard, der står i spidsen for studiet.
Analysen
bliver klar i løbet af vinteren, og forventningerne er store. For der har været
ekstra fokus på spørgsmålet efter, at Center for GeoGenetik og
Harvard-genetikere fandt et temmelig usædvanligt genetisk slægtskab mellem to
Amazon-stammer og papuanere.
Hvor fascinerende!!!!
English translation
17:00 Lois feel very sleepy, and she would rather not participate in
tonight's Bible seminar in Brockworth. She calls her friend, Ken, and
asks him to drive by and pick up the suitcase containing everything you need to
make cups of tea, also biscuits etc. for the seminar participants.
18:00 We have dinner and spend
the evening watching a little television. They show an interesting documentary,
"Women, Sex and Society", which is about the struggle for women's
rights, and especially about the way this battle has been documented in film
and on television. The program's host is the charming historian Helen Castor.
It is interesting that
contemporary feminists do not look back on this struggle with great
satisfaction, despite the women's movement's many achievements.
For example, the Suffragettes, who in
the early 1900s fought for women's suffrage and equal rights in England,
constituted a real and serious terrorist movement, especially from 1912, and
arson was the movement's main weapon. But the image of the movement focuses
primarily on the women who chained themselves to railings, which actually did
not happen very often. It resembles the situation in the 1960s and 1970s, when
the media focused on the women who burned their bras - my god, what madness!
the media characterize the early
suffragettes as silly women
who chained themselves to railings - oh
dear!
The women's movement dropped its
struggle in 1914, when the First World War broke out, and the members did
everything they could to help the national war effort, and the movement was
rewarded in 1918 when parliament adopted women's suffrage. But today's
feminists do not like the idea that the right to vote was a sort of
"reward" for having acted as a "well-behaved little girls"
during the war - my god!
Was women's suffrage just a "reward" for having been
"well-behaved little girls" during the war ???
The program's host, the charming
Helen Castor, thinks that every victory for women in the 20th century was
followed by a backlash from men. For example, the development of the Pill in the
1960s gave women a new freedom, but it also convinced men that women were
constantly sexually available. At the same time advertising suddenly became
much more obviously sexist.
Advertising became suddenly much more
sexist –
my god, such goings-on !!!!
It is interesting that the Pill
was originally developed to control population growth in the Third World, but
it was women in the western world that were most keen on using it - oh dear!
Helen thinks that there was a
third stage of the women's movement in the 1990s, which for the first time
involved women who were not white, but Lois and I are not convinced about that.
We did not notice this phase, but it may be that that's because we are both white.
The men’s backlash continues today in
the form of anonymous internet trolls who insult famous women online - my god,
what a crazy world we live in !!!!!
22:00 We go to bed – zzzzz!!!
04:30 I get up early and do one
of my routine Danish vocabulary tests. Afterwards I hurry into the kitchen and
make two cups of tea. I bring them up to our bedroom and crawl back into our
bed. We drink the tea and get up.
09:30 We have to go out. We take the bus into
town. We look into the Thomas Cook travel agency and collect 1,000 Danish
kroner, which we will take when we fly to Copenhagen at Christmas. We go on to
Waterstones Bookshop and buy children's books and art materials as Christmas
presents for our grandchildren in Australia. We will send them by mail to
Sarah, our youngest daughter, who lives in Perth.
While we are in the
bookstore, I see a customer who wants to buy a book about the Danish concept of
"Hygge", which is currently very popular in the UK. I hear the assistant
advise the customer how to pronounce the word "hygge", but his
pronunciation only approximately corresponds to the right one - my god! I think
about correcting the error, but I decide to shut up - my god! I do not want to
humiliate the assistant - I'm so nice !!!!
I have read that the Oxford English
Dictionary has considered selecting "hygge" as word of the year for
2016, but they eventually chose "post-truth", which reflects the
situation that feelings are more important than facts in political campaigns (Brexit,
Trumps victory, etc. ) involving the internet. My god, what a crazy world we
live in !!!!
11:00 We take the bus back home.
11:30 We drive over to
Leckhampton and pop into the Cook Shop to buy 4 ready meals. Afterwards we
drink a cup of coffee and eat a piece of cake in the store's café. It is very
nostalgic to be at Cook Shop's café again. Two years ago, we used to bring Sarah's
twins to this store on the days we took care of them - happy times !!!!
We drink a cup of coffee today in Cook
Shop's café
Flashback to April 2014: We sit in Cook Shop's café
along
with Sarah's twins - happy days!
We drive home and I go to bed. I
take a short nap - zzzzz !!!!!
15:00 I get up and we relax with
a cup of tea on the sofa. I look a little on the net and I read an interesting
news item about prehistoric human remains found by a Danish researcher, Peter W.
Lund, in South America 173 years ago.
In 1840 Peter W. Lund sent human bones
home to the King's collection
in Copenhagen, and they are to be found
today at the Zoological Museum
Research progresses slowly at the
University - I have no doubts about that !!! Eventually (after 173 years), the
University is about to complete a DNA analysis that will show how the very
earliest immigration to America took place.
They will eventually be able to
shed light on how the South American continent was conquered by the first
people. That is to say in how many waves of the groups, when populations split
up and how they are related, explains Peter de Barros Damgaard, who is leading
the study.
The analysis will be ready during
the winter, and expectations are high. There has been additional focus on the
issue after the Center for GeoGenetics and Harvard geneticists found a rather
unusual genetic relationship between two Amazon tribes and the Papua New
Guineans.
How fascinating !!!!
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