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Venice gets its first female gondolier
Women's Rights: 1
Tradition: 0
Venice has broken a nine hundred year-old tradition by certifying its first female gondolier. The trade, normally handed down from father to son, recently opened up to everyone when the city of Venice introduced an official gondoliering course in 2007. That course has just had its first female graduate, the Guardian reported.
Giorgia Boscolo, a 23 year-old mother of two, said that she's always been enchanted with gondolas and that childbirth is much more difficult than maneuvering the large boats through narrow canals. Boscolo had to take 400 hours of coursework and prove a detailed knowledge of Venice's labyrinth of waterways.
Any bets on what year will be the last year to have a female "first"? There are a lot more barriers left to break. Running a gondola isn't exactly walking on the moon, but it cuts the number by one, and that's something to be proud of.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
TEDDGIRL Jun 29th 2009 4:19PM
The article is well written, but yeah, I did get lost on the correlation of the pictures below... haha it happens...
erj210 Jun 29th 2009 4:02PM
Okay, first female gondolier? or okay, not sure if its international new worthy, but okay. but, why the hell do they always jump to the childbirth crap. 'Oh I'm a woman and I had kids.' They only use it because they know we have no defece of it.
Margaret Jun 29th 2009 4:05PM
I agree , What the heck was that? I saw the pics and wondered why would they all be seductive looking. I clicked and it's to put you towards porn. Typical when women are involved, yet women still allow men to degrade them this way. They think this kind of work justifies their beauty and sexuality. They need to grow up and become a real woman. Spreading your legs for mags and performing all kinds of decadent acts don't make you a woman,sexy, alluring,desired, just decadent and subjective to humiliation, but too caught up in the look at me, don't i look hot, to know they are being used and abused and humiliated.
Valerie Jun 29th 2009 4:36PM
Wow, if that wasn't a completely sexist remark, I don't know what is. You sound like a REAL winner, Todd, I don't know how you don't get laid more. Have fun jerking off for the rest of your life. :)
BiffT Jun 29th 2009 4:34PM
Well, I guess the other tradition of peeing over the gunwales is not going to last much longer, either.Actually most women would male excellent gondoliers since they only have one oar in the water to start with!