Hints of Female Master race, reminiscent of NAZI era and Adolph Hitlers SS, but more settle. Here is a Fascist Feminazi Witch talking about how women are taking over the world and Men are becoming second class citizens. This Witch is very convincing and persuasive while driving home her point, women are taking over.
This is Misandry at its worst, sad, sad day. This women talks about India, China and Korea as well.
Does this mean that Women are going to start paying maintainence and give half there wealth to Men, somehow I dont think so, everything is great as long as everything goes along the Women way.
If what this Feminazi says is true, they why is she so insecure, and threatened by Men?
Must watch Feminazi propaganda Video
Never mind the glaring Master Race implications of Rosin’s elitist ideology. There is another concern here that Rosin smugly showcases for her viewing audience.
Her psychological abuse of her own children.
Having spent two decades counselling populations that are disproportionately affected by abuse of all kinds, I happen to know something about the subject.
Her abuse of them is clear and unmistakable, though some may not notice because we tend to see abuse in terms of overtly physical and sexual acts. Psychological abuse, a devastating form, can be much more subtle, but Rosin does manage to make it more obvious when she drags her children into the video, which is provided at the bottom for your convenience.
At 7:15 in the video, Rosin unambiguously asserts that females are superior to males in several ways, most notably that they are more intelligent and better communicators and listeners that are able to focus better than males, essentially making them more suitable for lucrative professional positions. She uses these ideas to essentially laud the creation of a male underclass- as women continue to thrive.
She also notes that boys are falling way behind girls in education (which she acts as though is troubling), but says she can’t offer any reasons for that because she is writing a book about it and has not done the research.
So rather than use scholarly references, she offers up her 10 year old daughter’s "expertise," showing a home video of an interaction involving the Rosin family.
First and foremost, we must keep in mind what this interaction is. It is one of a 10 year old girl, gloating on an outrageous sense of superiority over boys, while her younger brother is forced to sit silently and listen.
At 9:40 we are introduced to Noa, who is sitting next to mother Hannah at a table. Opposite this pair is the father and Rosin’s son, neither of whose names did Rosin mention. Noa is there to explain why the boys in her class do not perform as well as the girls.
“The girls are obviously smarter,” she says, her tone laden with derision. She goes on, stating, “I mean, they [girls] have much larger vocabularies. They learn much faster.”
At this point the son lifts his arms and attempts to object with, “No!”
The father touches his arm, clearly an admonishment, and says, “Let her talk,” without as much as looking at him.
The message at this point is already crystal clear. In the Rosin family, the belief is that females are superior to males, and any dissent from this will not be allowed.
Noa continues her speech. “They [girls] are much more controlled. The boys today are losing recess. …[O]nly boys.”
At this point Hanna interrupts to ask. “And why is that?”
“They were just not listening to the class while the girls sat there very nicely,” answers Noa, her sense of superiority even more evident in her voice. Apparently in her class, each and every boy is a behavioral problem, while each and every girl is a model student. Either that, or the teacher is gender profiling for punishment in the classroom.
But either way, make no mistake about it; where the Rosin family is concerned, this is the psychological abuse of both children.
First consider the son, and I know there will be many that would say he did not appear to be adversely affected by what happened in this video. It’s true; he does not appear to have clearly visible effects for the three seconds the camera was on him.
But that camera is not capable of telling us what is going on with his self image, even though he tried to tell us himself by objecting to being barraged with messages of how inferior he was to his sister, and indeed to all women.
Now, if that does not convince you of a problem here; if you are looking at this and asking, “Hey, what’s the big deal?” let me ask you to imagine your reaction to a family scene where a son, with scripted assistance from his father, is allowed to tell his younger sister how superior boys are while the mother sits by to enforce the daughters silence as it happens?
It would be abusive, would it not? So is this. Period.
If Rosin is actually writing a book on why boys are failing, I would suggest that her abusive form of parenting might provide her good source material. She will likely be able to support it later when her son fails out of school. It happens to a lot of people with diminished self worth.
The father is no less culpable. Almost all abusive homes have one primary abuser, and a chief enabler. While likely well controlled by Hanna, Dad is obviously the muscle behind his wife’s philosophical edicts. His son would not be being abused if didn’t have a father who allowed it. And his daughter would not be learning a hateful mentality if her father was giving her the loving guidance she needs.
And that brings us to the matter of young Noa. What are we doing to children when we raise them with the mentality that they are superior to entire classes of human beings?
Well, for one we are subjecting them to the same learned hatred that resulted in a countless forms of bigotry and discrimination that we have long sought to correct; the same learned hatred that resulted in segregated schools (though that will not be necessary with boys if we just drum them out of education altogether).
We have fought the scourge of racism being taught to our children. We teach young men now, from an early age and rightly so, that any notion of superiority to women is misguided, destructive and will not be tolerated.
It is not just because those ideas are wrong, but because we know that raising children with hateful, racist and sexist ideas has a severely negative impact on what kind of adults they will turn out to be.
These same concerns should extend to boys as well, but as we saw in the snickering reaction of the audience to that video, and the smugness with which Hanna Rosin puts her abusive mothering on display for the world, we have a long way to go.
Rosin’s personal catch phrase in recent times has been, “The End of Men.”
It is an idea she is obviously dedicated to, as evidence by the fact that she is destroying the youngest, most vulnerable man in her life, right in her own home, and putting it on display for the world laugh at.
Source: AVFM
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Saturday, December 18, 2010
How to Avoid a False Rape Claim
By False Rape Society
Sometimes there is nothing an innocent guy can do to avoid a false rape claim. Sometimes he is just in the wrong place at the wrong time. But a significant number of false rape claims can be avoided by exercising caution and staying clear of situations where the likelihood of a false rape claim is enhanced.
When it comes to rape, political correctness gone mad tells us we should not even suggest advising our daughters to avoid certain situations where rape is more likely to occur (they call it "victim blaming" -- as if the mere admonition to "be careful" transfers blame for a rape from the rapist to the victim). It would be unfortunate if we similarly hesitated to urgeour sons to minimize the risk of false rape claims out of some warped, politicized sense of principle. The long-term damage from a false rape claim is so potentially enormous that every reasonable effort should be taken to avoid one. Make no mistake, the onus for a false rape claim is on the false accuser, just as the onus for rape is on the rapist. But failing to discourage our young people from putting themselves in harm's way just to make a political point is something no sane parent should ever do.
Having closely studied the false rape phenomenon for a considerable period of time, we have compiled a short list of situations where the likelihood of a false rape claim is enhanced. We've run similar lists in the past, and we are constantly updating it. A lot of it is common sense. Sometimes, more than one of these situations is present in a given instance, thus increasing the likelihood of a false rape claim.
One important point needs to be made at the outset: the vast majority of women would never tell a rape lie under any circumstance, just as the vast majority of men would never rape under any circumstance.
Here are the situations to watch for:
▲Where the woman will feel a need to deny her consensual tryst to someone important in her life.
This one can't be overstated. It is the foremost reason why women lie about rape. In Prof. Kanin's first landmark false rape study, he found that the motive to cover up a sudden illicit encounter was the primary motivation for false rape claims. It is manifested in a variety of ways, but if you remember the general principle, you should be able to spot the warning signs.
If a woman feels a need to keep the affair from someone important to her, she is more likely to falsely cry rape because she fears the tryst will become known. How will it become known? She might fear that she has become impregnated, or that she has contracted a sexually transmitted disease, or that you will reveal the affair to someone and that it will get back to the person(s) she wants to keep it from. In light of these fears, some women figure that the only way to avoid blame is to make a preemptive false rape claim. It is cruel and heartless to the falsely accused male lover, but, sadly, it is more common than we'd like to think.
Specific situations where this occurs:
(1) Having sex with a woman who has a husband or a boyfriend. Aside from the moral considerations of interfering with someone's marriage or committed relationship, you should avoid this at all costs because it is ground zero for a false rape claim. Even if you think the woman is estranged from her husband or boyfriend, you may not know for sure, and there is always the possibility they will get back together soon. Too often, the innocent male won't know that she's married or has a boyfriend -- a cautionary tale about the dangers of bedding a woman you don't know well.
(2) If the woman is young, or if she is still under her parents' emotional thumb and they either disapprove of you or of her having sex. If a girl needs to hide the fact that she's having sex with you from a parent, as most teen girls below college age do, you are playing with fire. Moreover, sex with college-age women or older is sometimes problematic if she is still under her parents' financial or emotional thumb, and if they disapprove either of her having sex, or of you.
(3) If the woman would be embarrassed to let her friends know she is serious about you. If you are the quarterback of your school's NCAA division one football team, chances are, this won't be a problem. If you are a geek who's not very popular but who "gets lucky" one night while you're both drinking, you stand a greater chance of a false rape claim the next morning.
(4) Group sex where there was one woman and multiple guys.Think Hofstra. This is a recipe for a false rape claim. Ground zero, in fact. We've seen this multiple times. The reasons are obvious: how on earth can she possibly explain this to a boyfriend, a parent, or a friend? How will she hold her head up on campus? Most sane young women will deeply regret that encounter after-the-fact and will worry that if word got out, it would destroy what's left of her reputation. The fear of "slut shaming," as the feminists call it, seems to spawn off-the-charts regret, and that is a false rape claim waiting to happen. Men should never, ever put themselves in this awful situation.
▲Nasty break-ups.
Divorce and custody disputes spawn false rape claims in order for the woman to gain the upper hand in the dispute.
Spurned ex-lovers sometimes use false rape claims as a tool of revenge. If you are cheating on a wife or a girlfriend, a false rape claim is more likely, and many people will view it as a sort of justified payback.
These situations are sometimes difficult to avoid and give men even more reason (1) not to cheat, and (2) to do a much better job of getting their know the woman before getting serious with her.
▲Where it will be confusing as to whether rape occurred.
The alcohol-fueled hook-up culture is a disaster for both men and women. To suggest that couples should never drink and fool around denies eons of accumulated knowledge about gender relations. Couples often drink to lower inhibitions, knowing full well where it will lead. It's drinking to excess that's the problem, especially for college-aged couples and slightly older. Asking the police or a jury to sort out what happened afterwards based on a "he said/she said" account puts an impossible burden on our law enforcement and judicial apparatuses. Young men looking to "score" in that situation need to understand that (1) when women drink to excess, at some point, they lose the ability to factually and legally consent, and the breaking point is very difficult to discern; and (2) women experience much greater after-the-fact regret than men do.
Sometimes feelings of regret are translated into feelings of "being used," and sometimes feelings of "being used" are misinterpreted or purposefully misconstrued as "rape." Unfortunately, it is the politically correct thing to urge young women to party like the guys -- without bothering to tell them about the regret asymmetry that separates the genders.
▲Big age differentials.
Older male, much younger female. A false rape claim is less plausible when it involves peers around the same age because the likelihood of a consensual relationship is greater among same-age partners. When a teen girl below the age of consent accuses a middle-aged man of rape, there is no possibility of legal consent, and actual consent seems less likely than if she was having sex with a same-age boy. Moreover, the older man/young girl allegation is generally viewed as so terribly loathsome that the mantra "guilty until proven innocent" is truly a reality for this one. Even when a young woman beyond the age of consent accuses a middle-aged man of rape, the initial inclination is to assume he's a lecherous old man, and that she would have no desire to have consensual sex with someone like that.
Teen boy, older woman. Sometimes women (they are often teachers) who statutorily rape teen boys will twice victimize them by falsely accusing them of rape. Such tactic has facial plausibility, given the male-as-predator stereotype and the exploding hormones of teen boys. It is especially disturbing that a woman would, as the cliche goes, throw her callow young lover under the bus in order to save herself. This is almost always a situation where the woman will feel a tremendous need to deny the tryst to someone important in her life -- often her husband, her children, her friends, the principal at the school where she works, and the school board, all at once.
▲Certain professions more readily lend themselves to false rape claims.
If you are male and are a school teacher, a police officer, an ambulance paramedic, or a cab driver, you need to be especially vigilant.
Police officers are at risk because some women charged with crimes lie about rape out of revenge or to claim that the charges were trumped up.
Ambulance paramedics and cab drivers are sometimes targeted by delusional women or women looking for an excuse for some indiscretion (refusing to pay a cab fare is a big one).
Teachers are forced to interact with many girls who are experiencing significant emotional and hormonal changes and whose immature judgment allows them to do things a more mature person wouldn't do. The ease with which a false claim can be made is a concern for male teachers, and that profession, more than the others, is attuned to these dangers.
▲The woman is unstable.
This is often impossible to spot, at least initially. We've reported here on a woman who sent a man to prison for five years because she was bored. Another woman tried to destroy the life of a man she didn't even know with a rape lie because he wouldn't give her a beer. A girl accused another man of rape for throwing a flower at her. Innumerable women tell rape lies for attention or sympathy. Some women are just plain nuts, and men who are close to them stand a greater chance of being smeared by a rape lie.
▲The woman has no compunction about lying.
This one surely overlaps with the others. If a woman is sufficiently selfish that she has no difficulty lying -- to extricate herself from trouble or for other reasons, she may not even need one of the reasons noted above to tell a rape lie. Some women will tell rape lies to avoid getting into trouble for being late for work. Liars are dangerous, and are to be avoided at all costs. Again, this personality type will almost always be impossible to spot immediately.
The best way to avoid a false rape claim is not to engage in sexual relations outside a committed relationship. In my belief-system, that means a stable marriage to someone you trust. I fully realize that this will strike some as old-fashioned and moralizing; I also appreciate that in this no-fault divorce era where 70% of all divorces are initiated by women who are afforded significant advantages in family law courts biased against fathers, that a happy marriage is all too often elusive. I merely point out that false rape claims are virtually non-existent in a happy marriage.
Here endeth the sermon.
Source: AVFM
Sometimes there is nothing an innocent guy can do to avoid a false rape claim. Sometimes he is just in the wrong place at the wrong time. But a significant number of false rape claims can be avoided by exercising caution and staying clear of situations where the likelihood of a false rape claim is enhanced.
When it comes to rape, political correctness gone mad tells us we should not even suggest advising our daughters to avoid certain situations where rape is more likely to occur (they call it "victim blaming" -- as if the mere admonition to "be careful" transfers blame for a rape from the rapist to the victim). It would be unfortunate if we similarly hesitated to urgeour sons to minimize the risk of false rape claims out of some warped, politicized sense of principle. The long-term damage from a false rape claim is so potentially enormous that every reasonable effort should be taken to avoid one. Make no mistake, the onus for a false rape claim is on the false accuser, just as the onus for rape is on the rapist. But failing to discourage our young people from putting themselves in harm's way just to make a political point is something no sane parent should ever do.
Having closely studied the false rape phenomenon for a considerable period of time, we have compiled a short list of situations where the likelihood of a false rape claim is enhanced. We've run similar lists in the past, and we are constantly updating it. A lot of it is common sense. Sometimes, more than one of these situations is present in a given instance, thus increasing the likelihood of a false rape claim.
One important point needs to be made at the outset: the vast majority of women would never tell a rape lie under any circumstance, just as the vast majority of men would never rape under any circumstance.
Here are the situations to watch for:
▲Where the woman will feel a need to deny her consensual tryst to someone important in her life.
This one can't be overstated. It is the foremost reason why women lie about rape. In Prof. Kanin's first landmark false rape study, he found that the motive to cover up a sudden illicit encounter was the primary motivation for false rape claims. It is manifested in a variety of ways, but if you remember the general principle, you should be able to spot the warning signs.
If a woman feels a need to keep the affair from someone important to her, she is more likely to falsely cry rape because she fears the tryst will become known. How will it become known? She might fear that she has become impregnated, or that she has contracted a sexually transmitted disease, or that you will reveal the affair to someone and that it will get back to the person(s) she wants to keep it from. In light of these fears, some women figure that the only way to avoid blame is to make a preemptive false rape claim. It is cruel and heartless to the falsely accused male lover, but, sadly, it is more common than we'd like to think.
Specific situations where this occurs:
(1) Having sex with a woman who has a husband or a boyfriend. Aside from the moral considerations of interfering with someone's marriage or committed relationship, you should avoid this at all costs because it is ground zero for a false rape claim. Even if you think the woman is estranged from her husband or boyfriend, you may not know for sure, and there is always the possibility they will get back together soon. Too often, the innocent male won't know that she's married or has a boyfriend -- a cautionary tale about the dangers of bedding a woman you don't know well.
(2) If the woman is young, or if she is still under her parents' emotional thumb and they either disapprove of you or of her having sex. If a girl needs to hide the fact that she's having sex with you from a parent, as most teen girls below college age do, you are playing with fire. Moreover, sex with college-age women or older is sometimes problematic if she is still under her parents' financial or emotional thumb, and if they disapprove either of her having sex, or of you.
(3) If the woman would be embarrassed to let her friends know she is serious about you. If you are the quarterback of your school's NCAA division one football team, chances are, this won't be a problem. If you are a geek who's not very popular but who "gets lucky" one night while you're both drinking, you stand a greater chance of a false rape claim the next morning.
(4) Group sex where there was one woman and multiple guys.Think Hofstra. This is a recipe for a false rape claim. Ground zero, in fact. We've seen this multiple times. The reasons are obvious: how on earth can she possibly explain this to a boyfriend, a parent, or a friend? How will she hold her head up on campus? Most sane young women will deeply regret that encounter after-the-fact and will worry that if word got out, it would destroy what's left of her reputation. The fear of "slut shaming," as the feminists call it, seems to spawn off-the-charts regret, and that is a false rape claim waiting to happen. Men should never, ever put themselves in this awful situation.
▲Nasty break-ups.
Divorce and custody disputes spawn false rape claims in order for the woman to gain the upper hand in the dispute.
Spurned ex-lovers sometimes use false rape claims as a tool of revenge. If you are cheating on a wife or a girlfriend, a false rape claim is more likely, and many people will view it as a sort of justified payback.
These situations are sometimes difficult to avoid and give men even more reason (1) not to cheat, and (2) to do a much better job of getting their know the woman before getting serious with her.
▲Where it will be confusing as to whether rape occurred.
The alcohol-fueled hook-up culture is a disaster for both men and women. To suggest that couples should never drink and fool around denies eons of accumulated knowledge about gender relations. Couples often drink to lower inhibitions, knowing full well where it will lead. It's drinking to excess that's the problem, especially for college-aged couples and slightly older. Asking the police or a jury to sort out what happened afterwards based on a "he said/she said" account puts an impossible burden on our law enforcement and judicial apparatuses. Young men looking to "score" in that situation need to understand that (1) when women drink to excess, at some point, they lose the ability to factually and legally consent, and the breaking point is very difficult to discern; and (2) women experience much greater after-the-fact regret than men do.
Sometimes feelings of regret are translated into feelings of "being used," and sometimes feelings of "being used" are misinterpreted or purposefully misconstrued as "rape." Unfortunately, it is the politically correct thing to urge young women to party like the guys -- without bothering to tell them about the regret asymmetry that separates the genders.
▲Big age differentials.
Older male, much younger female. A false rape claim is less plausible when it involves peers around the same age because the likelihood of a consensual relationship is greater among same-age partners. When a teen girl below the age of consent accuses a middle-aged man of rape, there is no possibility of legal consent, and actual consent seems less likely than if she was having sex with a same-age boy. Moreover, the older man/young girl allegation is generally viewed as so terribly loathsome that the mantra "guilty until proven innocent" is truly a reality for this one. Even when a young woman beyond the age of consent accuses a middle-aged man of rape, the initial inclination is to assume he's a lecherous old man, and that she would have no desire to have consensual sex with someone like that.
Teen boy, older woman. Sometimes women (they are often teachers) who statutorily rape teen boys will twice victimize them by falsely accusing them of rape. Such tactic has facial plausibility, given the male-as-predator stereotype and the exploding hormones of teen boys. It is especially disturbing that a woman would, as the cliche goes, throw her callow young lover under the bus in order to save herself. This is almost always a situation where the woman will feel a tremendous need to deny the tryst to someone important in her life -- often her husband, her children, her friends, the principal at the school where she works, and the school board, all at once.
▲Certain professions more readily lend themselves to false rape claims.
If you are male and are a school teacher, a police officer, an ambulance paramedic, or a cab driver, you need to be especially vigilant.
Police officers are at risk because some women charged with crimes lie about rape out of revenge or to claim that the charges were trumped up.
Ambulance paramedics and cab drivers are sometimes targeted by delusional women or women looking for an excuse for some indiscretion (refusing to pay a cab fare is a big one).
Teachers are forced to interact with many girls who are experiencing significant emotional and hormonal changes and whose immature judgment allows them to do things a more mature person wouldn't do. The ease with which a false claim can be made is a concern for male teachers, and that profession, more than the others, is attuned to these dangers.
▲The woman is unstable.
This is often impossible to spot, at least initially. We've reported here on a woman who sent a man to prison for five years because she was bored. Another woman tried to destroy the life of a man she didn't even know with a rape lie because he wouldn't give her a beer. A girl accused another man of rape for throwing a flower at her. Innumerable women tell rape lies for attention or sympathy. Some women are just plain nuts, and men who are close to them stand a greater chance of being smeared by a rape lie.
▲The woman has no compunction about lying.
This one surely overlaps with the others. If a woman is sufficiently selfish that she has no difficulty lying -- to extricate herself from trouble or for other reasons, she may not even need one of the reasons noted above to tell a rape lie. Some women will tell rape lies to avoid getting into trouble for being late for work. Liars are dangerous, and are to be avoided at all costs. Again, this personality type will almost always be impossible to spot immediately.
The best way to avoid a false rape claim is not to engage in sexual relations outside a committed relationship. In my belief-system, that means a stable marriage to someone you trust. I fully realize that this will strike some as old-fashioned and moralizing; I also appreciate that in this no-fault divorce era where 70% of all divorces are initiated by women who are afforded significant advantages in family law courts biased against fathers, that a happy marriage is all too often elusive. I merely point out that false rape claims are virtually non-existent in a happy marriage.
Here endeth the sermon.
Source: AVFM
Friday, December 17, 2010
What is wrong with the men's rights movement?
Oct 31, 2010
The men's rights movement (MRM) continues to grow in size, but politically is deeply flawed.
The average men's rights activist (MRA) is hostile to feminism. And yet he also agrees fundamentally with the feminist agenda.
This leads to the odd situation of feminists arriving at MRA websites, liking what they read, proposing a grand alliance with the MRM, before being angrily chased away by the MRAs.
How has this situation come about? It seems to me that there are two major wings of the MRM. The first is a liberal one. There are now plenty of men involved in the MRM who describe themselves not only as "very liberal" but even as being radically left-liberal.
These men, understandably, don't like the way that men are portrayed as being privileged oppressors (i.e. bad guys) on the mainstream, feminist left. Rather than rethinking leftist politics, they respond by pointing to areas in which it is men who are treated unequally.
There's the usual range of liberal attitudes amongst these men. Some of the more right-liberal ones limit themselves to calls for procedural equality. But others are more radical and want to follow through more consistently with the liberal ideal of making gender not matter.
It's therefore often assumed at MRM sites that masculinity is an oppressive construct; that the aim of the MRM is to liberate men from masculinity; that society should be strictly gender neutral, including in parental roles and in having women drafted into combat roles; and that feminist countries like Sweden are the models for the rest of the world to follow.
The second wing of the MRM are the male separatists (who call themselves "men going their own way" or MGTOW).
These are men who have grown up in an age of female individualism. Their experience is of a society which is geared toward maximising female autonomy, whether it's in terms of education, careers or family.
They have been particularly burned when it comes to relationships. Some of them have lost out in the divorce courts. Some of them are men whose female peers have been "liberated" to waste their 20s chasing a few alpha guys. For these reasons they are not very trusting of, or sympathetic toward, women.
How do men react to female individualism? One way (the traditionalist way) is to criticise a radical individualism, for both sexes, as socially destructive. But the male separatists don't do this. They respond instead by trying to imagine an individualism of their own.
How can men lead a more individualistic, autonomous life? How, in other words, do men "go their own way"? Above all, by not marrying. The male separatists vary a bit here. Some want to shack up with non-Western women (there is much hostility to white/Western women). Others promote the idea of occasional sexual encounters. Others don't want any contact at all.
In order to persuade men not to marry, the male separatists push the idea that men are harmed by marriage. They also portray women in very negative terms (gold diggers, sluts etc).
It ends up sounding uncannily like the feminism of the 1970s, but with the sexes reversed. In the 1970s, it was feminists who thought marriage was oppressive to women, who promoted separatist solutions, and who therefore painted men in the most unflattering light possible.
The liberal and the separatist MRAs get along quite well, as both groups are committed to the idea of male autonomy or individualism. The separatists aren't quite as motivated by the aim of deconstructing masculinity. Even so, they've managed to find common ground with the liberals here, since they believe that "manning up" means having to take on the responsibility of being a husband and father - which they fundamentally reject.
Both groups also react vehemently against the idea of chivalry. The liberals see it as being one reason why equality hasn't been fully implemented; they believe that conservative judges treat women more favourably on chivalrous grounds. The separatists believe that chivalry encourages men to make sacrifices for women, which cuts right across the separatist aim of men living for themselves alone. Conservatives and traditionalists are blamed for perpetuating chivalry and holding back men's rights.
Oddly, there are MRAs who are concerned about the presence of traditionalists within the movement. They believe that traditionalists will rob the MRM of respectability.
It's more likely, though, that it's the liberal/separatist alliance which will hold back the MRM from going mainstream. Just how mainstream did the radical separatist feminists become, even with the backing of the liberal establishment? Weren't they correctly perceived by nearly all men, and by many women, to be man-hating types without a realistic political program?
Where does the current strategy of the MRM get men? What are those men who want relationships with women, and children of their own, to do? You hear MRAs talk about sex with robots, or hiring surrogates to have children without the need for a wife, or developing affectionate male companionship, or hiring prostitutes. It just sounds desperate and unrealistic.
And will the average man gravitate toward a movement which takes just as grim a view of masculinity as the feminists have done?
And consider this. For years feminists have complained that men haven't gotten with the program. Feminists believe that careers are the ultimate in achieving female autonomy, but that women are restricted in pursuing careers by the fact that men haven't abandoned masculinity quickly enough. Too many men, complain the feminists, are still working away in careers rather than accepting androgynous roles and devoting themselves to childcare and keeping house.
The feminist message has fallen on deaf ears. So the latest feminist strategy has been to get men themselves to spread the message. More and more it is male feminists who are pushing the feminist line to men.
But feminists needn't have worried. Because it is now an "anti-feminist" men's rights movement which is doing all the heavy lifting for them. It is the MRM which is getting men to accept the idea that being a provider is oppressive to men; that society should be gender neutral and accept the idea of men as nurturers; that men should reject masculine norms of behaviour and so on.
It's a problem I've seen over and over. People feel the oppressive effect of liberal changes to society. They get motivated to act politically. But political clarity is lacking and so they end up trying to cure liberalism by adopting some more radical form of liberalism. And so nothing changes, despite all the expenditure of energy.
So what should traditionalists do? I think we have to accept, realistically, that the men's rights movement is likely to go the wrong way, just like feminism did (maybe MGTOW should be renamed MGTWW - "men going the wrong way").
But I don't think we should abandon it. The MRAs are, at least, open to criticisms of feminism. So there's an opportunity to make principled criticisms of feminism at MRA sites. And we will be the only alternative at such sites for those men who identify positively with masculinity.
We won't be part of the mainstream, but we can put forward a different approach. I'll outline some of the arguments I think we should be making at MRA sites in a future post.
Update : A reader has reminded me of some MRM sites which are not liberal/separatist politically. I do believe my post accurately describes the trends at some of the larger, influential sites, but perhaps I should have recognised the existence of a third, generally non-liberal strand of thought within the MRM.
Source: ozconservative.blogspot
Sweden Divorce
Divorce Sweden
If you want a divorce, you should apply for divorce at the district court where you belong.
To find the right district, click on " Search court ". - Order birth certificate of the Tax Agency, tel 020-567 000. If you call, tell them that it comes to divorce. You can also order birth certificates for divorce from the Tax Agency website (link opens in new window).
- Fill out the form "Joint application for divorce" or "Joint application for termination of partnership." You and your spouse may complete the form together. If you do not agree to divorce you can in most cases, complete it alone. Contact the court if you are unsure of how to fill out the form.
- If you have children who are under 18 years old, indicate whether custody should be shared or if either parent should have sole custody. If only one parent should have custody, indicate who. If you need assistance, please contact a law firm.
- Pay the application fee of 450 crowns to the district court's PlusGirokonto. You can find your account number via the " Search court ". Enter their name, date of birth, address and telephone number to the case of divorce. If you pay online with a limited field of communication, indicate that the divorce and one party's personal identity.
- Send or submit the form to the district court together with proof of identity.
If you / your dependent children under 16 years (your, your spouse or children) or if one of you do not want a divorce, you will always consider it.
The time is always at least six months to one year. Please note that if you still want a divorce when the six months have expired, you must notify the district court (so-called completion). The message must reach the district court after the six months have passed. No particular form is required. You must also then provide the new birth certificate. If the notice of completion is not received by the district court within one year after the cooling off period began, the case is discontinued.
If you have lived apart for more than two years can you get a divorce immediately, even if you have children or not agree to divorce. In that case, you must attach a separate living signed by two people who know you well.
Source: domstol.se
(Sweden) Woman jailed for rape of teenage girls
Apr 21, 2010
A 28-year-old Swedish woman has been convicted of rape after she and her boyfriend forced two teenage girls to engage in sex acts against their will over a 12-hour period.
According to the Gothenburg District Court, the couple “in agreement and as a team” used threats and violence to compel the two 17-year-old girls to have sex with them, the Metro newspaper reports.
The 28-year-old woman, in addition to participating in the sex attack itself, was also found to have betrayed the trust placed in her by one of the girls.
The girl told the court that she had viewed the woman like an older sister.
While the couple admits to having sex with the girls, they claim that the teens were willing participants in the prolonged assault.
The woman and her 29-year-old boyfriend each received prison sentences of 3.5 years for the crime.
According to Elisabeth Kwarnmark, a psychologist for sexual criminals with the Swedish Prison and Probation Service (Kriminalvården), only four women have been convicted of rape in Sweden in the last decade.
In most cases, she added, the woman is convicted along with a male accomplice.
Source: thelocal.se
A 28-year-old Swedish woman has been convicted of rape after she and her boyfriend forced two teenage girls to engage in sex acts against their will over a 12-hour period.
According to the Gothenburg District Court, the couple “in agreement and as a team” used threats and violence to compel the two 17-year-old girls to have sex with them, the Metro newspaper reports.
The 28-year-old woman, in addition to participating in the sex attack itself, was also found to have betrayed the trust placed in her by one of the girls.
The girl told the court that she had viewed the woman like an older sister.
While the couple admits to having sex with the girls, they claim that the teens were willing participants in the prolonged assault.
The woman and her 29-year-old boyfriend each received prison sentences of 3.5 years for the crime.
According to Elisabeth Kwarnmark, a psychologist for sexual criminals with the Swedish Prison and Probation Service (Kriminalvården), only four women have been convicted of rape in Sweden in the last decade.
In most cases, she added, the woman is convicted along with a male accomplice.
Source: thelocal.se
Swedish Rape Laws
These articles are extracted from the Swedish Penal Code, Chapter six (6), ‘On Sex Offences’, which deals with sex crimes perpetrated against both children and adults.
| I. Ages for legal purposes |
Age of majority
In Sweden the age of majority is eighteen (18) years.
Age of consent for sexual activity
In Sweden the age of consent for sexual activity is fifteen (15) years.
Age of consent for marriage
The age of consent for marriage is the majority : eighteen (18) years.
| II.Rape |
A person committing rape (sexual intercourse or other comparable sexual act forced by violence or serious threat) can be sentenced to imprisonment for at least two and at most six years. If the rape is considered as aggravated rape the offender can be sentenced to imprisonment for at least four and at most ten years. Rape perpetrated against a child is normally considered as aggravated rape.
Section 1 of the Swedish Penal Code
'A person who, by violence or threat involving or appearing to the threatened person as imminent danger, forces the latter to have sexual intercourse or to engage in a comparable sexual act, shall be sentenced for rape to imprisonment for at least two and at most six years. Rendering the person unconscious or otherwise placing the person in a similarly helpless state shall be regarded as equivalent to violence.
If in view of the nature of the violence or the threat and the circumstances in other respects the offence is considered less serious, a sentence to imprisonment for at most four years shall be imposed.
If the offence is grave, a sentence to imprisonment for at least four and at most ten years shall be imposed for aggravated rape. In judging whether the offence is grave, special consideration shall be given to whether the violence involved a danger to life or whether the person who had committed the act had inflicted serious injury or serious illness or, having regard to the method used or the victim’s youth or otherwise, exhibited particular ruthlessness or brutality.'
| III.Other forms of child sex abuse |
A person committing sexual coercion (sexual act forced by unlawful coercion that is not considered as rape) can be sentenced to imprisonment for at most two years. If the crime is considered as aggravated sexual coercion the offender can be sentenced to imprisonment for at least six months and at most four years.
Section 2 of the Swedish Penal Code
'A person who, under circumstances other than those mentioned in Section 1, by unlawful coercion makes someone engage in a sexual act shall be sentenced for sexual coercion to imprisonment for at most two years.
If the person who committed the act exhibited particular ruthlessness or if the offence is otherwise considered grave, a sentence of at least six months and at most four years shall be imposed for grave sexual coercion.'
A person committing sexual exploitation (sexual act induced by gross abuse of the victim’s dependency or by improperly taking advantage of the fact that the victim is unconscious or in other helpless state or is suffering from a mental disturbance), can be sentenced to imprisonment for at most two years. If the crime is considered as aggravated sexual exploitation with a minor the offender can be sentenced to imprisonment for at least six months and at most six years.
Section 3 of the Swedish Penal Code
'A person who induces another to engage in a sexual act by gross abuse of his or her dependency shall be sentenced for sexual exploitation to imprisonment for at most two years. This also applies to a person who engages in a sexual act with another by improperly taking advantage of the fact that the latter is unconscious or in another helpless state or is suffering from a mental disturbance.
If the person who has committed the act has exhibited particular ruthlessness or if the offence is otherwise considered to be grave, a sentence to imprisonment for at least six months and at most six years shall be imposed for grave sexual exploitation.'
A person committing sexual exploitation of a minor (sexual act with someone under eighteen (18) years who is the offender’s offspring or stands under his responsibility or, otherwise than as previously stated, a sexual act with someone under fifteen (15) years, can be sentenced to imprisonment for at most four years. If the crime is considered as aggravated sexual exploitation with a minor, the offender can be sentenced to imprisonment for at least two and at most eight years.
Section 4 of the Swedish Penal Code
'A person who engages in a sexual act with someone under eighteen (18) years of age and who is that person’s offspring or for whose upbringing he is responsible, or whose care or supervision he is responsible for by decision of a public authority, shall be sentenced for sexual exploitation of a minor or imprisonment for at most four years. This also applies if a person, in circumstances other than those mentioned previously in this Chapter, engages in a sexual act with a child under fifteen (15) years.
If the person who committed the act exhibited particular lack of regard for the minor if the offence by reason of the minor’s young age or otherwise is regarded as grave, a sentence of imprisonment for at least two and at most eight years shall be imposed for grave sexual exploitation of a minor.'
A person, otherwise than as previously stated, committing sexual intercourse with an offspring, can be sentenced to imprisonment for at most two years. A person committing sexual intercourse with a sibling, can be sentenced to imprisonment for at most one year.
Section 6 of the Swedish Penal Code
'If a person, otherwise than as previously stated in this chapter, has sexual intercourse with his or her own child or its offspring a sentence of imprisonment for at most two years shall be imposed for sexual intercourse with an offspring.
A person who has sexual intercourse with his or her sibling of the whole blood shall be sentenced to imprisonment for at most one year for sexual intercourse with a sibling.
The provisions of this section do not apply to a person who has been made to commit the act by unlawful coercion or other improper means.'
A person committing sexual molestation (to sexually touch a child under fifteen (15) years or induce the child to undertake or take part in an act with sexual implications, inter alia to participate in producing pornographic material, or with improper influence induce a person fifteen (15) to seventeen (17) years old to take part in pornographic posing or in producing pornographic material) can be sentenced to pay a fine or imprisonment for at most two years.
Section 7 of the Swedish Penal Code
'A person who, otherwise than as previously stated in this Chapter, sexually touches a child under fifteen years of age or induces the child to undertake or participate in an act with sexual implication shall be sentenced to a fine or imprisonment for at most two years for sexual molestation.
A sentence for sexual molestation shall also be imposed on a person who by coercion, seduction or other improper influence induces a person who has attained the age of fifteen (15) years but not the age of eighteen (18) years to undertake or participate in an act with sexual implication if the act is part of the production of pornographic pictures or constitutes pornographic or constitutes pornographic posing in circumstances other than those relating to the production o a picture.
This shall also apply if a person exposes himself to another in a manner apt to give offence or otherwise behaves indecently toward the latter by word or deed that flagrantly violates a sense of decency.'
A person committing seduction of youth (by promising or giving compensation to obtain or try to obtain casual intercourse with someone under eighteen (18) years) can be sentenced to pay a fine or imprisonment for at most six months.
Section 10 of the Swedish Penal Code
'A person who, by promising or giving compensation, obtains or tries to obtain casual sexual relations with someone under eighteen (18) years of age, shall be sentenced for seduction of youth to pay a fine or to imprisonment for at most six months.'
Section 11 of the Swedish Penal Code
'Liability prescribed by this chapter for an act committed against someone under a given age shall be imposed even on an person who did not realise but had reasonable grounds for assuming that the other had not attained such age.'
Section 12 of the Swedish Penal Code
'Liability shall be imposed as provided in Chapter 23 for attempt to commit rape, aggravated rape, sexual coercion, aggravated sexual coercion, sexual exploitation, aggravated sexual exploitation, sexual exploitation of a minor, aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor, procuring and aggravated procuring. This also applies to preparation for and conspiracy to commit rape, aggravated rape, aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor and aggravated procuring.'
Section 13 of the Swedish Penal Code
'When, in the case of sexual exploitation of a minor as under Section 4, first paragraph, second sentence or attempt to commit such an offence, or in the case of sexual molestation as under Section 7, first paragraph, there is little difference in age and development between the offender and the child, public prosecution shall not occur unless it is called for in the public interest.'
| IV. Child prostitution |
‘Procuring’, Section 8 of the Swedish Penal Code
'A person who promotes or in an improper way exploits the fact that someone has casual sexual relations for payment shall be sentenced for procuring to imprisonment for at most four years.
If a person grants the right to enjoy premises to another and knows that the premises are wholly or to a substantial extent used for casual sexual relations for payment and omits to do what can reasonably be expected to terminate the occupation, and if the activity continues or is resumed at the premises, he shall be considered to have promoted the activity and shall be sentenced in accordance with the first paragraph.'
‘Aggravated procuring’, Section 9 of the Swedish Penal Code
'If the offence mentioned in Section 8 is grave, imprisonment for at least two an d at most six years shall be imposed for aggravated procuring.
In judging whether the offence is grave, special consideration shall be given to whether the offender has promoted casual sexual relations for payment on a large scale or has ruthlessly exploited another.'
| V. Child pornography |
A person producing or distributing child pornography can be sentenced to pay a fine or imprisonment for at most two years according to the Penal Code, Chapter 16, Section 10 a (child pornography offence).
Section 10 a of the Swedish Penal Code
'The person who
- depicts children in a pornographic picture,
- distributes, transfers, shows, puts such a picture of a child at another person’s disposal or in another way makes such a picture available for another person,
- acquires or offers such a picture of a child for sale,
- procures contacts between buyers and sellers of such picture of children or takes another similar measure with the view to promoting trafficking in such pictures, or
- has such a picture of children in his possession
is convicted of child pornography crime and sentenced to imprisonment for not more than two years or, if it is a petty crime, is fined or sentenced to imprisonment for no more than six months.
Child refers to a person whose puberty development is not completed or who, when it appears from the picture or the circumstance in it, is under the age of 18.
The person who professionally or in another way for the purpose of making money through negligence distributes such a picturethat is refered to in the first paragraph, is convicted as it is said there.
If a person has committed a crime, referred to in the first paragraph, that is considered to be serious, he shall be convicted of serious child pornography crime and sentenced to imprisonment for a minimum of six months and not more than four years. When judging whether a crime is serious it is to be especially taken into consideration if it has been committed professionally or for the purpose of making profits, has formed part of criminal activities that have been carried on methodically or to a great extent, has concerned an especially large number of pictures or has concerned pictures where children are subjected to especially ruthless treatment.
The prohibitions of depiction and possession do not concern the person who draws, paints or in another similar craftsmanlike way makes such picture referred to in the first paragraph, if the picture is not meant to be distributed, transferred, shown or in another way put at other persons disposal. Also in another cases an act shall not constitute a crime if special circumstances make the act obviously justified.'
Section 17 of the Sewdish Penal Code
'A person is convicted of responsibility, according to what is said in chapter 23, for preparationfor or conspiracy to or failure to reveal mutiny. The same applies to attempt to or preparation for grave gambling, attempt to such child pornography crime that is referred to in the first paragraph of article 10a, if it is not a petty crime, and attempt to or preparation for serious child pornography crime.'
Source: Interpol
Do Sweden's Rape Laws Infantilise Women? (Regardless of Julian Assange)
Dec 9, 2010
I have no idea whether Julian Assange is guilty of rape or not. If he is guilty, he should be tried (and not in a kangaroo court) and duly punished. What worries me more is a strange silence on part of journalists about a more bizarre twist in this tale. That twist is about Sweden's distinctly odd rape laws and the generally uncritiqued but dangerous corollary of the infantilisation of women by those laws.
The only reason I have noticed Sweden's rape laws is because of the current case against Wikileaks' founder. The facts are murky but at least this is much is clear: Assange had sex with two different women within a three day period, and behaved in general promiscuously and as a cad.
Frankly, two is less than many rock stars get up to, but then Assange apparently was far more interested in his computer than in the second woman with whom he had sex (her statement). The rock star comparison is not out of the blue. Whether we agree with Wikileaks or not, Assange has become a sort of internet, geeky version of a liberal, crusading rock star. If you think about it, he is the ultimate geek fantasy: a lap-top toting Luke Skywalker singlehandedly battling the Empire. Are we surprised that, unlike the PG rated Hollywood version, this geek not only has a sexual appetite, but also willing candidates lining up? Hell, even a killer and wife beater gets celebrity status and wild fans these days; remember the Moat saga? Assange, in contrast, has the added advantage of a liberal international halo to boot!
But neither Assange's sexual escapades nor his rock star status are of particular concern for this blog post. Instead what is more worrying are the epic twists and turns of Sweden's rape laws which appear to be applied at discretion. Already this case has gone from being upgraded to rape, then downgraded to molestation, changed to rape by surprise, rape because the condom broke, and finally, yesterday's he "used his body weight to hold her down," (which is definitely rape, but strangely brought out only three months in to the legal process).
Of more concern is a rather odd point, not discussed in the ad nauseum articles about rape in the mainstream media: that the Swedish prosecutors themselves have asserted that the consent of the women is not in question. Over the past week, as a result, my feeble feminine brain has been trying to understand how consensual sex is rape. Surely the term applies to lack of consent?
Then the accusers' lawyer Claes Bergstrom explained the contradiction of a crime of non-consent committed with consent by declaring: "they (the accusers) are not jurists.” As one of Assange's lawyers (and therefore to be taken with a grain of salt) pointed out: "How the Swedish authorities propose to prosecute for victims who neither saw themselves as such nor acted as such is easily answered: You’re not a Swedish lawyer so you wouldn’t understand anyway."
The problem here is more worrying than simply of the prosecutor or even the entire Swedish government caving into foreign (presumably US) pressure. The issue here is of a supposedly developed, socially progressive nation - which can't stop itself from taking on the mantle of moral superiority on all global issues - assuming that a rape victim cannot decide whether she has been raped.
Isn't this precisely the sort of infantilisation that feminism fought against? Isn't this infantilisation insulting and demeaning to all women, and not only those who have been raped?
As a long time feminist, a sometime volunteer for abused women, and most importantly, a woman myself, I need to say this loud and clear: a woman KNOWS when she is raped. Taking the power to identify her own rape from a rape victim is the most derogatory act that any state can perpetrate.
There is another under-reported aspect to Sweden's worrisome infantilising of women in context of its rape laws. Assange's lawyer, Michael Caitlin points out that the Swedish prosecutor Marianne Ny is also involved in "reforming" Swedish rape laws.
Already, as part of that infantilising women as creatures who obviously need to be protected by their nanny state against men, the Swedish rape law apparently considers consensual (albeit regretful in the morning) sex without condom a "sex crime." Not agreeing to be tested for sexually transmitted diseases - as far as I can make out from press reports - is also a "sex crime." But apparently, these laws are not strict enough for the Swedes. (An aside: are we surprised they have such a high suicide rate? With little sunlight, cold climate and state regulated strictly conformist sex, what else would they do?)
More seriously, the impending "reform" would apparently "introduce a test of whether the unequal power relations between the parties might void the sincerely expressed consent of one party." In principle that sounds good, right?
But how will this "unequal power relation" be established? Is it money? If a man buys me dinner, is he coercing me? Or will a Swedish man, by dint of history, gender, race, all of which position him as "more powerful" be considered a rapist simply for having sex with a non-European woman like me, despite my express consent? Or will the imbalance be because of age? Shall Sweden prosecute all couples who are not exactly equal in age? What happens to not only men who like younger women, but the newly emergent breed of cougars?
Perhaps it shall be based on intelligence, with a surgeon accused of rape should she have sex with a carpenter?
Or is it temperament? Will all of us going to Sweden be required to carry insta-psychometric tests to see if each partner is of the same psychological ability? What if a woman had sex with her partner while the latter is suffering from the horrific man-flu, would the Swedes believe that she were being coerced by his whinging?
On a more serious note, are these "reforms" actually yet another racist law meant for immigrants but couched in "liberal, protect European culture" vocabulary?
Back in my riotous days of student protests in the US, we demanded that "government get out of my womb." But in Sweden, it seems that the government is present in the beds, vaginas and wombs! All in such a benign big brotherly fashion that even Orwell would have trouble imagining it.
To be absolutely honest, Sweden is welcome to infantilising its women. This isn't the feminism I fought for, definitely is not the feminism I support, and will not be one I will teach to the young girls of my family.
I have no idea whether Julian Assange is guilty of rape or not. If he is guilty, he should be tried (and not in a kangaroo court) and duly punished. What worries me more is a strange silence on part of journalists about a more bizarre twist in this tale. That twist is about Sweden's distinctly odd rape laws and the generally uncritiqued but dangerous corollary of the infantilisation of women by those laws.
The only reason I have noticed Sweden's rape laws is because of the current case against Wikileaks' founder. The facts are murky but at least this is much is clear: Assange had sex with two different women within a three day period, and behaved in general promiscuously and as a cad.
Frankly, two is less than many rock stars get up to, but then Assange apparently was far more interested in his computer than in the second woman with whom he had sex (her statement). The rock star comparison is not out of the blue. Whether we agree with Wikileaks or not, Assange has become a sort of internet, geeky version of a liberal, crusading rock star. If you think about it, he is the ultimate geek fantasy: a lap-top toting Luke Skywalker singlehandedly battling the Empire. Are we surprised that, unlike the PG rated Hollywood version, this geek not only has a sexual appetite, but also willing candidates lining up? Hell, even a killer and wife beater gets celebrity status and wild fans these days; remember the Moat saga? Assange, in contrast, has the added advantage of a liberal international halo to boot!
But neither Assange's sexual escapades nor his rock star status are of particular concern for this blog post. Instead what is more worrying are the epic twists and turns of Sweden's rape laws which appear to be applied at discretion. Already this case has gone from being upgraded to rape, then downgraded to molestation, changed to rape by surprise, rape because the condom broke, and finally, yesterday's he "used his body weight to hold her down," (which is definitely rape, but strangely brought out only three months in to the legal process).
Of more concern is a rather odd point, not discussed in the ad nauseum articles about rape in the mainstream media: that the Swedish prosecutors themselves have asserted that the consent of the women is not in question. Over the past week, as a result, my feeble feminine brain has been trying to understand how consensual sex is rape. Surely the term applies to lack of consent?
Then the accusers' lawyer Claes Bergstrom explained the contradiction of a crime of non-consent committed with consent by declaring: "they (the accusers) are not jurists.” As one of Assange's lawyers (and therefore to be taken with a grain of salt) pointed out: "How the Swedish authorities propose to prosecute for victims who neither saw themselves as such nor acted as such is easily answered: You’re not a Swedish lawyer so you wouldn’t understand anyway."
The problem here is more worrying than simply of the prosecutor or even the entire Swedish government caving into foreign (presumably US) pressure. The issue here is of a supposedly developed, socially progressive nation - which can't stop itself from taking on the mantle of moral superiority on all global issues - assuming that a rape victim cannot decide whether she has been raped.
Isn't this precisely the sort of infantilisation that feminism fought against? Isn't this infantilisation insulting and demeaning to all women, and not only those who have been raped?
As a long time feminist, a sometime volunteer for abused women, and most importantly, a woman myself, I need to say this loud and clear: a woman KNOWS when she is raped. Taking the power to identify her own rape from a rape victim is the most derogatory act that any state can perpetrate.
There is another under-reported aspect to Sweden's worrisome infantilising of women in context of its rape laws. Assange's lawyer, Michael Caitlin points out that the Swedish prosecutor Marianne Ny is also involved in "reforming" Swedish rape laws.
Already, as part of that infantilising women as creatures who obviously need to be protected by their nanny state against men, the Swedish rape law apparently considers consensual (albeit regretful in the morning) sex without condom a "sex crime." Not agreeing to be tested for sexually transmitted diseases - as far as I can make out from press reports - is also a "sex crime." But apparently, these laws are not strict enough for the Swedes. (An aside: are we surprised they have such a high suicide rate? With little sunlight, cold climate and state regulated strictly conformist sex, what else would they do?)
More seriously, the impending "reform" would apparently "introduce a test of whether the unequal power relations between the parties might void the sincerely expressed consent of one party." In principle that sounds good, right?
But how will this "unequal power relation" be established? Is it money? If a man buys me dinner, is he coercing me? Or will a Swedish man, by dint of history, gender, race, all of which position him as "more powerful" be considered a rapist simply for having sex with a non-European woman like me, despite my express consent? Or will the imbalance be because of age? Shall Sweden prosecute all couples who are not exactly equal in age? What happens to not only men who like younger women, but the newly emergent breed of cougars?
Perhaps it shall be based on intelligence, with a surgeon accused of rape should she have sex with a carpenter?
Or is it temperament? Will all of us going to Sweden be required to carry insta-psychometric tests to see if each partner is of the same psychological ability? What if a woman had sex with her partner while the latter is suffering from the horrific man-flu, would the Swedes believe that she were being coerced by his whinging?
On a more serious note, are these "reforms" actually yet another racist law meant for immigrants but couched in "liberal, protect European culture" vocabulary?
Back in my riotous days of student protests in the US, we demanded that "government get out of my womb." But in Sweden, it seems that the government is present in the beds, vaginas and wombs! All in such a benign big brotherly fashion that even Orwell would have trouble imagining it.
To be absolutely honest, Sweden is welcome to infantilising its women. This isn't the feminism I fought for, definitely is not the feminism I support, and will not be one I will teach to the young girls of my family.
Women's income, wages still lower than men's despite big jump
Here we go again, these Fascist Pigs are at it again, when will these Witches get it through there thick skulls that women will always complain of lower wages till they literally over take Men's salaries, that day will never come, if it did what will they have to lie about?
Dec 16, 2010
Dec 16, 2010
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Pictures and CONTACT INFORMATION for Julian Assange Rape Accusers
Sweden, arguably the most feminist nation on earth, the same country now contemplating putting the burden of proof on men accused of rape to actually prove their innocence (whatever the f that is supposed to mean), is also home to the two women who have accused Julian Assange of rape.
Unless you have been under a rock, you know that Assange has pissed off a lot of people in very high places, but they are hindered in getting to him because of that pesky old rule of law free speech thingy. But desperate situations require desperate measures. So Swedish prosecutors, who had originally tossed out the flaky charges leveled against Assange, suddenly found merit in them. (Perhaps with the assistance of the U.S. Ambassador?)
At any rate, Assange is now on the world stage. We should, in the interest of true feminism everywhere, give these two grrls their place in the spotlight as well, albeit quite a bit smaller than the space Assange occupies. After all, one good leak deserves another.
Oh, and by the way, don't tell anyone else.
Unless you have been under a rock, you know that Assange has pissed off a lot of people in very high places, but they are hindered in getting to him because of that pesky old rule of law free speech thingy. But desperate situations require desperate measures. So Swedish prosecutors, who had originally tossed out the flaky charges leveled against Assange, suddenly found merit in them. (Perhaps with the assistance of the U.S. Ambassador?)
At any rate, Assange is now on the world stage. We should, in the interest of true feminism everywhere, give these two grrls their place in the spotlight as well, albeit quite a bit smaller than the space Assange occupies. After all, one good leak deserves another.
Oh, and by the way, don't tell anyone else.
Anna Ardin
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112 47 STOCKHOLM
AND/OR Tjurbergsgatan 36 4tr
118 56 Stockholm
Mobil: (+46)73-3907017
AND/OR 0854555332
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Birthday: 17 Sep
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Birthday: 17 Sep
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