It has nothing to do with Hippocampus or Hounds but I 've just heard something ridiculous in the Danish . I would have said hilarius if it wasn't so tragical. I don't know if it all started with the #MeToo movement but clearly identity politics has become extremly fashionable over the last few years. Every single day many books and history is rewritten because one or two people, claiming to represent this or that minority, feels offended by this or that.
Today reports that one of the Danish maritime museums in the city Elsinore are now changing their exhibition (Maybe you know Elsinore from another tradegy, Shakespeare's Hamlet. Or maybe in this particular forum Elsinore is best known for the 'Sound Dues'. All foreign ships passing through the strait, whether en route to or from Denmark or not, had to stop in Elsinore and pay a toll to the Danish Crown. This toll actually constituted to 2/3 of Denmark's state income in the 16th and 17th centuries. If a ship refused to stop, cannons in Elsinore would open fire and sink it) The museum's exhibition was more or less telling a story about Danish Sailors as men with a lot of tatoos and a girl in every port. The museum is now giving in for some people who claims the exhibition is offending because the tatoos as well as the story are sexistic.
Personally I couldn't care less if it is sexistic or not. It is history and the truth (even the last Danish King was a sailor and had a lot of sailor tatoos). So now we can take our children to the museum and give them a totally wrong perception of the Danish sailors from the last couple of centuries. They will come to believe that sailors was a bunch of metrosexual sissies wearing mascara and avoiding any work that could make their clothes dirty.
Today reports that one of the Danish maritime museums in the city Elsinore are now changing their exhibition (Maybe you know Elsinore from another tradegy, Shakespeare's Hamlet. Or maybe in this particular forum Elsinore is best known for the 'Sound Dues'. All foreign ships passing through the strait, whether en route to or from Denmark or not, had to stop in Elsinore and pay a toll to the Danish Crown. This toll actually constituted to 2/3 of Denmark's state income in the 16th and 17th centuries. If a ship refused to stop, cannons in Elsinore would open fire and sink it) The museum's exhibition was more or less telling a story about Danish Sailors as men with a lot of tatoos and a girl in every port. The museum is now giving in for some people who claims the exhibition is offending because the tatoos as well as the story are sexistic.
Personally I couldn't care less if it is sexistic or not. It is history and the truth (even the last Danish King was a sailor and had a lot of sailor tatoos). So now we can take our children to the museum and give them a totally wrong perception of the Danish sailors from the last couple of centuries. They will come to believe that sailors was a bunch of metrosexual sissies wearing mascara and avoiding any work that could make their clothes dirty.
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