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| French men yearn for pregnancy |
| 2005-06-11 |
| Continuing in the vein of the striped French Juicyfruits story from a few days ago. Maybe it's that mix of hot Latin blood and cool Cartesian intellect, or perhaps is just a collective guilty conscience. Maybe it's because they are breastfed for their first 15 years and now their estrogen levels are off the scale. Whatever the cause, nearly 40 percent of French men told a recent survey that they would, science permitting, like to become pregnant. But actually getting their women pregnant: Quelle Horreur! The poll, conducted by Ipsos and published in the current issue of Children Magazine (Enfants Magazine), showed that 38 percent of the more than 500 fathers of children up to seven interviewed by phone said they would like, or would have liked, to be the one to carry their offspring to term. Now I'm feeling sick. Better not be the morning variety. A slightly higher percentage of women respondents liked the idea of their spouses taking on the nine-month job. The magazine did not compare the overlap -- whether women whose mates expressed deep maternal yearnings would welcome the prospect. The survey carried other signs that parenting is not what it used to be in the country that spawned one of the alltime feminist classics, Simone de Beauvoir's "The Second Sex". Thanks Simone. Ever since, no one has been able to separate French men and women. French men, however, are separated with a crow bar or a bucket of cold water. Eighty-six percent of the fathers queried said they were ready "to take a paternity leave of several months to live their fatherhood more intensely," provided it caused "minimal financial impact." Ideally, they'd take the next 21 years off on the government tit. And 71 percent said they were prepared to "take a year-long sabbatical" or "request to work part time." A 35 hour work week isn't considered part time? |
| Posted by:ed |
| #8 Hey, what the hell. When about 100% of the world thinks you're a bunch of pussies anyways, you might as well try to do something with it... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2005-06-11 19:22 |
| #7 "I've got nipples. Can you milk me, Focker?" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-06-11 16:11 |
| #6 I've already had two! |
| Posted by: John fn Kerry 2005-06-11 15:20 |
| #5 We always knew they were sissies but now they want to carry? Guess it's only natural for the Frenchmen to fulfill their manifest destiny of total transgender transformation! |
| Posted by: 49 pan 2005-06-11 14:36 |
| #4 All these years of being told to f*#! themselves by the rest of us has finally affected 40% of them. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2005-06-11 14:10 |
| #3 When the Moose Limbs take over in France French men can be certain they will be treated as well as Mooselimb wimminses, maybe even slightly better. |
| Posted by: badanov 2005-06-11 13:18 |
| #2 No wonder they have to hire a foreign legion to fight their wars. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2005-06-11 13:10 |
| #1 Well.... what can you say, they're french. This doesn't suprise me a bit. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2005-06-11 13:09 |