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SunSeeker

(51,546 posts)
Sun Dec 20, 2015, 02:34 PM Dec 2015

Norway Offers Migrants a Lesson in How to Treat Women

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The first such program to teach immigrants about local norms and how to avoid misreading social signals was initiated in Stavanger, the center of Norway’s oil industry and a magnet for migrants, after a series of rapes from 2009 to 2011.
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Mr. Kelifa, the African asylum seeker, said he still had a hard time accepting that a wife could accuse her husband of sexual assault. But he added that he had learned how to read previously baffling signals from women who wear short skirts, smile or simply walk alone at night without an escort.

“Men have weaknesses and when they see someone smiling it is difficult to control,” Mr. Kelifa said, explaining that in his own country, Eritrea, “if someone wants a lady he can just take her and he will not be punished,” at least not by the police.

Norway, he said, treats women differently. “They can do any job from prime minister to truck driver and have the right to relax” in bars or on the street without being bothered, he added.
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http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/12/20/world/europe/norway-offers-migrants-a-lesson-in-how-to-treat-women.html
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We could use some of those classes at our college campuses.
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Norway Offers Migrants a Lesson in How to Treat Women (Original Post) SunSeeker Dec 2015 OP
“if someone wants a lady he can just take her and he will not be punished,” mwrguy Dec 2015 #1
Or the military Warpy Dec 2015 #2
yup, the big green rape machine mwrguy Dec 2015 #3
Sadly it sounds like lots of places in our society mythology Dec 2015 #5
"something happens in their heads" Skittles Dec 2015 #4

mwrguy

(3,245 posts)
1. “if someone wants a lady he can just take her and he will not be punished,”
Sun Dec 20, 2015, 03:28 PM
Dec 2015

Yup, sounds like an american college campus.

 

mythology

(9,527 posts)
5. Sadly it sounds like lots of places in our society
Sat Dec 26, 2015, 12:13 AM
Dec 2015

Far too many men don't get that we don't have a right to a woman's body or attention just for being male.

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