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Nona the brit Posted 19 years ago
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Japanese birth giving machines

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01b00"Japan's health minister has referred to women as "birth-giving machines" in a speech to a local political meeting.02b00 02br
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00Hakuo Yanagisawa called for women to do their best to bear children in order to counter Japan's plummeting birth rate and rapidly ageing population. 02br
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00"Because the number of birth-giving machines and devices is fixed, all we can ask for is for them to do their best per head," he said. 02br
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00He added: "Although it may not be so appropriate to call them machines." 02br
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00So, do we think this was just an inadvertantly unfortunate translation of what he said, or did he really refer to women as 'birth-giving machines'. Have you seen the original text in Japanese? Would you agree with this translation?0-
  

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5000 Hope it was just a bad translation, because otherwise he simply insulted Japanese women.010id3
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0 Unfortunately there are many countries in which men still think that we are machines, and I'm adding also Italy to the list! Usually this thing's been said by men who have a very low educational level; what has surprised me it's the fact that it's a minister to say this. Thinking better why should I be surprised since we've had Berlusconi as prime minister and he said a LOT of silly things?0
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0It sounds as if he may need to address the sperm-implanting devices too.02br
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00MrP0-
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0 Machines for this, machines for that. Where will it all end?02br
00I got a bit confused the other night and wolf whistled at a beer vending machine! (It was kinda cute :-) )0-
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10You've just seriously affronted 3000 Google bots, Mike. 02br
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0 What, me worry?02br
00First I had the Fembots after me, then the BMA (Beer Machine Association),. What's a few thousand more? Bring on the Googlies!0-
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0Uh oh. Not just bottist – googlist too.02br
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00Goodbye to our Alexa ranking...0-
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00Mr Darkly probably thinks I'm oslo a bit Pist!0-
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0I must confess that I didn't get a single word that you 2 said 05000 (shame on me, since it seems an admin issue 05100)010id711id4
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0To tell you a secret, Fran, I didn't get a word either, lol.0-
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