Posted on 06/09/2005 12:25:44 PM PDT by BenLurkin
PARIS (AFP) - Maybe it's that mix of hot Latin blood and cool Cartesian intellect, or perhaps is just a collective guilty conscience.
Whatever the cause, nearly 40 percent of French men told a recent survey that they would, science permitting, like to become pregnant.
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.
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".
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."
And 71 percent said they were prepared to "take a year-long sabbatical" or "request to work part time."
hahaa.a.. oh, that was evil...hahahahaha.a.
You mean they are a nation of Lily von Shtupp's ?
ROTFLMAO!!!
Whatever. I seriously doubt that French men (or most men) for that matter could deal with morning sickness, joint pain, pelvic floor pain, stretch marks, and of course labor or worse, a c-section. Most men I know become big babies when they get a cold!
Sounds like that book is already paying for itself.
It's pretty funny, actually.
Thanks for the set up.
Maybe this is why they have tampon machine's in French men's rooms.
I scanned some of the pages from your link.
It does look entertaining.
Judith: Well why do you want to be Loretta, Stan?
Loretta: I want to have babies.
Reg: You want to have babies?
Loretta: It's every man's right to have babies if he wants them.
Reg: But you can't have babies.
Loretta: Don't you oppress me.
Reg: I'm not oppressing you, Stan. You haven't got a womb. Where's the foetis going to gestate? You going to keep it in a box?
--------[Loretta starts crying.]
Judith: Here. I've got an idea. Suppose you agree that he can't actually have babies, not having a womb, which is nobody's fault... not even the Roman's, but that he can have the right to have babies.
--------[This seems to satisfy him.]
Francis: Good idea, Judith. We shall fight the oppressors for your right to have babies, brother. Sister, sorry.
Reg: What's the point?
Francis: What?
Reg: What's the point of fighting for his right to have babies when he can't have babies?
Francis: It is symbolic of our struggle against oppression.
Reg: Symbolic of his struggle against reality.
"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.'"
Well no kidding. If I could take several months off and still get paid most of my salary I would take that deal in a second. I really doubt however, that these guys would be spending most of that time with their kids.
Oh man. You just had to, did you! :-)
Is that the international sign for "No" across the front of his trunks?
Where do I sign up? I'd love to "live my fatherhood more intensely".....uh, that doesn't mean I have to wear a mannery gland does it?
Happy to oblige, ya done good!
Funny, he doesn't look French.
That hits the nail right on the head!
That pic cries out for a caption contest!
ORCA survives on land!!!
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