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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font color="#000000"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">From: <span name="M.-L. Lessing">M.-L. Lessing</span> <span><<a href="mailto:marless@gmx.de">marless@gmx.de</a>></span></font><br>
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Subject: LL-L "History" 2013.05.01 (01) [NL]</font></font></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font color="#000000"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br><div><font face="times new roman,serif" size="4">Dear Dick,</font></div>
<div><font face="times new roman,serif" size="4"> </font></div><div><font face="times new roman,serif" size="4">you write: "After 4 generations of queens, a king is quite refreshing." Hello? You have a queen now, too. But you had no king until now for 4 generations. And the reason is: a striking form of sexism discriminating against men! </font></div>
<div><font face="times new roman,serif" size="4"> </font></div><div><font face="times new roman,serif" size="4">If I marry a king, I become queen, right? (Not that I intended to.) If you happen to marry a queen, you become ... prince consort. Now what is this?! Let me guess: The thought that lies beneath is: If there is a king, he is the one who calls the tune, period. If there is a queen, well it depends.... A queen is harmless, she maybe just decoration. The title of king confers power, the title of queen confers ... nothing. -- Is it after all once more a sexism discriminating against <em>women</em>?</font></div>
<div><font face="times new roman,serif" size="4"> </font></div><div><font face="times new roman,serif" size="4">Anyway, I think it is time, if not to do away with monarchies anyway, at least to install symmetry in titles. The couple on the throne should be the king an queen, or the queen and king, and not the queen and her jester or so. Supporting your spouse in power should be quite as respectable a job for a man as for a woman, honoured by the same title. I can't imagine how "modern monarchies" that take pains to ensure the right to throne succession to first-born daughters can be so blind to this insulting circumstance.</font></div>
<div><font face="times new roman,serif" size="4"> </font></div><div><font face="times new roman,serif" size="4">Your new reigning couple seems very likeable, and I wish you a good time with them! Oranje boven (except in football ;-))!</font></div>
<div><font face="times new roman,serif" size="4"> </font></div><div><font face="times new roman,serif" size="4">Hartlich!</font></div><div><font face="times new roman,serif" size="4"> </font></div><div><font face="times new roman,serif" size="4">Marlou</font></div>
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