Yanagisawa calls women ‘birth-giving machines’MATSUE, Shimane Pref. (Kyodo) Health minister Hakuo Yanagisawa referred to women as “birth-giving machines” in a speech Saturday on welfare and health care.
Addressing prefectural assembly members of the Liberal Democratic Party in Matsue, the 71-year-old Yanagisawa touched on the nation’s declining birthrate and said, “The number of women aged between 15 and 50 is fixed. Because the number of birth-giving machines and devices is fixed, all we can ask for is for them to do their best per head, although it may not be so appropriate to call them machines.”
Something tells me that these types of comments are unlikely to be well received.
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One of the philosphers I studied ages ago described woman as “a hole to be filled.” I didn’t take too kindly to that, either. I simply don’t understand how some people think.
Okay, and get this for irony: the word verification for this comment is CURVEY
::shudder::