Local Polish newspaper used this touching family image recently to illustrate an article on local couples – apparently on average being more eager to get hitched and have kids then elsewhere in the country.
Note that the male is featured in the foreground in a laid back and manly pose, holding the modern symbol of power: tv remote. (Power, but also leisure and laziness.) His female presents her baby in a display of fertility. (Fertility, plus responsibility and hard work.)
Coincidence or a subconscious reflexion of existing gender relations?
Maybe it’s a reflection of how they spend their evenings together? Mmm?
Getting hitched and having kids is not altogether a bad thing as long as all are ready for the consequences.
Picture of our place would be more like Mrs holding the remote and sitting in the big chair, Mr sitting at the computer blogging and Miss running around annoying both!
I’m with Scatts – my wife, her sister and mother all hold the remote and boy do they channel hop.
By the way watch out for a mixed african/polish girl on a TV ad for some mobile phone with dance classes – that’s my sister-in-law!!! At school she was always top of the class for acting and music and landed a recording contract at 16. Then she tried to get into films and was told there was no market for a black girl in Polish TV!!! Now she’s studying Psychology but thankfully things are changing so she’s starting to get the acting opportunities (although the pay is terrible)
dat —> ad for mobile phone with dance classes? nothing comes to my mind. dance classes… dance classes…. can you find it on you tube?
there are some black people on Polish tv. there’s this weather girl from Pozań on TVN, there’s this guy on TVP’s economical programme…
He (or She) who owns the remote “Rules”. My friend Lello stopped by my apartment one day and was making me lose my equilibrium from zipping through the channels every five seconds.
Well, well, well polishpress, new things are afoot I see. Another English-language blog from the Polish point of view – hooray!
It’s a great picture, the nuclear family is alive and well and living in Poland. I used to love those weekend pullout sections they have (had?) in Gazeta Wyborcza (I think) with mug shots of every baby born in the past month. Sooo Polish and sooo Catholic “look what we have made!” Great stuff. Do they still do this? I haven’t seen one for ages.
Island1, I think you’re overinterpreting the babies section:)) Local newspapers in Poland publish the register of people who died and who were born in the local area. My parents still have the paper from the 80s with my name in it. The pictures are just a modern variant:) (yes, its still there every Friday).
I grabbed Google, then Images, typed in: default family, no “”’s, then I looked at some of my fave numbers, namely 1 and 11. Tell ya, buddy, the world’s gone to the dogs. And some Wookies.
Holy smokes darth what a bunch of chewies
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