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ÿI am sure that winter holds many advantages, but right now I can't think of one. WHY is it that this thick, opaque layer of ice, who is subject to so much joy and happiness for the skaters and ice-fishers of Sweden, is a disaster to me? The answer is, of course, that I am too much of a woman (guess you could say that I, using these woman-statements, walks on thin ice) to dive beneath it (and we're talking ice here, I don't mind at all diving a few metres below women in white bathing-suits). OK, I have tried it once (in my mother's 1 mm. thick woolen garden-gloves), and I got the impression that the only thing that was different from my summer dives was the layer of ice over my head and the layer of dead cells on my hands when I returned to the surface. I had kinda hoped that the beach would be full of young women (with red hair?) when I came back up, women that admired my strong, male will and my lack of fear of cold. The beach was empty, in case you wonder.
	Am I a sexist male pig, using these expressions all the time? No, I wouldn't say I am. I am fully convinced that women are the equals of men, and I am a supporter of equity at work, too. This, however, does not stop me from believing that men actually are better than women when it comes to a few things, in the same sense as women are better than men when it comes to other things. This might sound fair, but it is not; as a matter of fact, it makes me a FUCKING MALE SEXIST PIG. I have come to learn (mainly by watching a feminist program on the Swedish TV) that women are EXACTLY as good as men in EVERYTHING, and that anyone who claims anything else is a remaint from the 17th century. Men are not as good as women, but women are as good as men. I can't say I understood anything of it, but that women with blue hair on the screen said that it was true, so it probably is.
	The male body is constructed for heavy work, which the female body isn't (OK, let's put it in this way instead: the female body is constructed for heavy work other than what the male body is constructed for), a fact which is very easy to prove by simply comparing muscle tissue and bone structure. It is, after all, not a coincidence that most ("all") athletic world records are held by men. Yes, women compete in a different class (the female class, remember?), but they still can't perform "good enough" to compete with the men's records. This is not sexism, this is A FACT, and it says NOTHING WHATSOEVER about whether women actually are more weak then men or not. But, no, the bluehead on TV said, I am wrong, I am a male pig.
	Women stand cold much better than men, mainly since their bodies contain much more fat-tissue than men's. This can easily be understood when looking at the survival-rates in accidents where people have been forced to stay in ice-cold water for a long time, like the Estonia accident. Still, the bluehead said, women are as good as men in EVERYTHING.
	I am sure you can come to think of an endless number of differences between the two sexes. That makes you, as I said, a child of the 17th century, so join the club. There are many of us here already.

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