Monday, March 07, 2005
I See Dumb People
It's Monday, and living in Europe in the beginning of March can make you so tired. International Women's Day is coming up. Not that it changes anything about how the media behaves in Sweden.
For some reason the only news capture available to Swedish journalists is the feminist perspective - with every story they report they are bending themselves backwards to show some angle in which women are used or abused - even when that perspective does only exist in the journalists' imagination.
One Swedish professor in neurobiology, Germund Hesslow, wrote an article (Swedish) about his research on differences between the sexes, and how this may have an impact on society: the bottom line being that quotas and government interventions in society only backfires on the women which the leading feminists here in Europe say that they want to help. He is now the most despised man in the country.
The second most popular woman in Sweden (after the Queen), on the other hand, was announced in a recent survey: Gudrun Schyman (ta-da!) is famous for number of scandals. She is a former member of the Stalinist Left Fraction, an alcoholic who has been the darling of the media for so long, in 1995 she stormed in to a press meeting with then Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson and, highly intoxicated, asked if he or "anybody in the room could show that they were real men". (This story was not reported in any paper or tv-station.) After that incident she has been accused of sexually harrasing other celebrities. Täppas Fogelberg eventually went public in Swedish Public Radio (P4) and told his audience how Schyman had been touching him at a private party, trying to seduce him while she was in a drunken haze. After that she has been convicted of tax fraud, illegal use of public funds (in her job as an MP), while having jobs on the side of her official job as a party leader of the former Communist Party (Now the Left Party) by making soft porn movies.
She is now the hottest candidate to lead a new Feminist Party that is about to be organized in Sweden and which, according to a recent poll might get as much as 36 percent in a nationwide election. (Honestly... is there no scandal out there that can finish her political career?) What is there to say? Gudrun, thanks for the memories. Now please go away.
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How is it possible for leftists to withstand media scrutiny in Sweden? you might ask yourself. Well, it is seemingly not a disadvantage to be a woman, as the case with Schyman clearly shows. Especially if you are on the left side of the political scene. There is more evidence that points out this medialised romantic relationship with the left.
Sweden, is some kind of nutty-aunt case in otherwise mainstream-nutty Europe. I wrote my Bachelor thesis about Bamse, (in Swedish) the most popular children cartoon in Sweden (subscription is possible - it arrives on a monthly basis). Bamse is made for children (age 3-9). He is a communist and advocates socialism - yes, to kids!
There are more books and magazines like this to be found in the dysfunctional homes of Sweden. As the Stockholm Spectator reports: in the 70ies, books about princes and princesses were thrown out from libraries. And new, more politically correct, books were being written. The books were used regularly in the playschools of that era. One of them was about a little Chinese girl. She told a little Swedish girl all about the Red Army. Here’s what Swedish playschool kids got to read:
Another book showed that there is no difference between boys and girls. A third shows mummy as a carpenter on her way to work, while daddy, wearing his flowery apron, stays at home to mind the children. (This was back in the days when it was still possible for one of the family to be at home.)
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Watching over the watchers:
The people on this blog - they watch Fox - so you don't have to... (ROTFL)
For some reason the only news capture available to Swedish journalists is the feminist perspective - with every story they report they are bending themselves backwards to show some angle in which women are used or abused - even when that perspective does only exist in the journalists' imagination.
One Swedish professor in neurobiology, Germund Hesslow, wrote an article (Swedish) about his research on differences between the sexes, and how this may have an impact on society: the bottom line being that quotas and government interventions in society only backfires on the women which the leading feminists here in Europe say that they want to help. He is now the most despised man in the country.
The second most popular woman in Sweden (after the Queen), on the other hand, was announced in a recent survey: Gudrun Schyman (ta-da!) is famous for number of scandals. She is a former member of the Stalinist Left Fraction, an alcoholic who has been the darling of the media for so long, in 1995 she stormed in to a press meeting with then Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson and, highly intoxicated, asked if he or "anybody in the room could show that they were real men". (This story was not reported in any paper or tv-station.) After that incident she has been accused of sexually harrasing other celebrities. Täppas Fogelberg eventually went public in Swedish Public Radio (P4) and told his audience how Schyman had been touching him at a private party, trying to seduce him while she was in a drunken haze. After that she has been convicted of tax fraud, illegal use of public funds (in her job as an MP), while having jobs on the side of her official job as a party leader of the former Communist Party (Now the Left Party) by making soft porn movies.
She is now the hottest candidate to lead a new Feminist Party that is about to be organized in Sweden and which, according to a recent poll might get as much as 36 percent in a nationwide election. (Honestly... is there no scandal out there that can finish her political career?) What is there to say? Gudrun, thanks for the memories. Now please go away.
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How is it possible for leftists to withstand media scrutiny in Sweden? you might ask yourself. Well, it is seemingly not a disadvantage to be a woman, as the case with Schyman clearly shows. Especially if you are on the left side of the political scene. There is more evidence that points out this medialised romantic relationship with the left.
Sweden, is some kind of nutty-aunt case in otherwise mainstream-nutty Europe. I wrote my Bachelor thesis about Bamse, (in Swedish) the most popular children cartoon in Sweden (subscription is possible - it arrives on a monthly basis). Bamse is made for children (age 3-9). He is a communist and advocates socialism - yes, to kids!
There are more books and magazines like this to be found in the dysfunctional homes of Sweden. As the Stockholm Spectator reports: in the 70ies, books about princes and princesses were thrown out from libraries. And new, more politically correct, books were being written. The books were used regularly in the playschools of that era. One of them was about a little Chinese girl. She told a little Swedish girl all about the Red Army. Here’s what Swedish playschool kids got to read:
“Our Red Army had many enemies: landlords and other rich people who didn’t want
to share… But we got a leader whose name is Mao. He has taught to understand
that everybody must share equally. We admire Mao for this!”
Another book showed that there is no difference between boys and girls. A third shows mummy as a carpenter on her way to work, while daddy, wearing his flowery apron, stays at home to mind the children. (This was back in the days when it was still possible for one of the family to be at home.)
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Watching over the watchers:
The people on this blog - they watch Fox - so you don't have to... (ROTFL)
