There is an infamous story in Poland about a sign at the shipyard in Gdansk where the trade union movement Solidarity got started in 1980. Although nobody actually saw the sign, many people firmly believe that it existed. The sign read: “Women, do not disturb us. We are fighting for Poland.”
“The sign is very important to Polish feminism,” Agnieszka Graff told me in an interview outside of Bialystok in August 2013. “It puts in a nutshell the kind of arrogance but also the beauty of Polish patriarchal patriotism: ‘Don’t disturb us, ladies, we are the strong and tragic men who …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
