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Swedish feminists trip up on man tax
2005-10-26
SPARE a thought for Swedish feminists whose newly formed party is disintegrating after hardliners presented a manifesto advocating a “man tax”, the abolition of marriage and the creation of “gender-neutral” names. Sweden already boasts one of the highest levels of female participation in the workplace and some observers questioned the need for a feminist party in a country whose women account for half the seats in parliament.
There is that ...
When it was founded six months ago, polls showed that a quarter of voters would consider supporting Feminist Initiative in elections next year because of rising domestic violence against women and higher salaries for men. That goodwill seems to have faded after the party’s recent founding congress, however, when radicals such as Tiina Rosenberg, a professor of gender studies, appeared to have secured control of the agenda. The resulting platform included proposals for abolishing marriage and changing the law to let people who undergo sex change operations legally alter their names.
You may wonder, 'why would it be a problem to change one's name?' Keep reading ...
The party called also for the creation of more “gender-neutral” names such as “Robin” or “Norva” that could apply to a boy or a girl. At present parents must choose names from an official list for boys or girls.
An official list of names. How Swedish. But it gets better ...
At least you never run into any Swedes named "Floyd" or "Shakaleisha"...
Gudrun Schyman, a founding member of the party and a former Swedish Communist party leader and author of erotic verse, advocates what she calls a “man tax to cover the cost of violence against women in the home”.
I'd like to see an erotic verse tax, myself. But limericks should be exempt...
In a recent television documentary called The Gender War, she proclaimed: “Men are animals.” The documentary noted that the shelter had printed excerpts of an extremist American feminist manifesto called Scum, which stands for the Society for Cutting Up Men. In it, women are urged to “destroy the male sex” and seize the chance made possible by science of giving birth only to females.
Millions of Swedish men shake their heads and wonder what took them so long to get divorced ...
Posted by:Steve White

#25  bk - You're supposed to use italics and quotes when you lift someone else's thoughts and repost them. It's pretty clear you can't compose 2 or 3 coherent sentences of your own, but I must insist that you not be given a pass just because you're mentally handicapped.

I bitch-slapped you a coupla days ago and you were too much of a coward to respond. And here you are, back again, playing the fool.

Sorry, bk, but we've retired the position of RB Red-Headed Stepchild. You wouldn't qualify anyway - it requires a measurable IQ.

You should seek out open-mike opportunities to embarrass yourself elsewhere, work up a decent troll routine, and then come back and present it for proper ridicule.

You're sub-sub-sub-prime.
Posted by: .com   2005-10-26 22:32  

#24  Bad
and the creation of “gender-neutral” names

Try:

Dickless
Humorless
Silly
Strapon
Vacuous

Pat?
Posted by: Hepatitis Hamster   2005-10-26 19:48  

#23  Ed

:>
Posted by: Shipman   2005-10-26 18:00  

#22  Great, Sweden's answer to Catherine MacKinnon...
Posted by: Raj   2005-10-26 17:55  

#21  In general I don't pay attention to crazies. Call me when the bra-burning starts though...
Posted by: flash91   2005-10-26 17:42  

#20  Britain does have a few rules.

No one can be registered as Prince, Princess, King, or Queen... Other than that it is wide open.

I guess Michael Jackson in in violation of another law.

Hyphens are stupid but shouldn't be illegal.
Posted by: BigEd   2005-10-26 12:53  

#19  Next thing you know they'll be creating a Ministry of Silly Walks.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2005-10-26 12:22  

#18  She definitely has a "gudrun" sort of face:


Posted by: Carl in N.H.   2005-10-26 12:21  

#17  Bk

But to be complete there should be a right of litigation when your teacher uses the pulpit as a tribune instead of for teaching you what you came for learning. After all, the time he took for his activism means you learned less about the main subject and your lmarket value will be lesser.

When universities start getting sued for millions of dolars due to some clown trying to brain-wash students then there will be no more Ward Churchills.
Posted by: JFM   2005-10-26 10:23  

#16  Same old story, again. Somebody sets up an organization with reasonably tame goals - thus attracting membership and some respect, perhaps momentum. Then, slowly but surely, the true agenda is revealed and the membership doesn't immediately flee, not believing it's beyond retrieval. And slowly they are radicalized into believing that insanity is sane and absurdities are reasonable. And then all you can do is try to deprogram them, which is problematic, or kill 'em. They're all grown up and they're broken. It's always a helluva waste of good ,um, nevermind. Sigh.

Sounds like the begining of George W.'s first term in office, now look where he's at!
Posted by: bk   2005-10-26 10:10  

#15  JFM,

Just stop taxpayer funding of university. When people have to pay their own way they tend to be more careful with the money.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2005-10-26 09:58  

#14  And that Swedish wife of his has taken away at least half of Tigers golf game.
Who could concetrate with her waiting at home?
Posted by: Capsu78   2005-10-26 09:54  

#13  These militant lesbians have as much use for men as fish have for Arabian condos.
Posted by: ed   2005-10-26 09:49  

#12  Professor of gender studies

Instead of a commission for approving child names it would be time to form a commission (formed exclusively by Marines and Soldiers who have been under fire ) for approving universitry disciplines. The proliferation of pseudo-studies in joke science should stop. Their only function is to give a tribune and a means of existence to never dowells papa boys and girls playing leftist. Fire them and have them work at your nearest car wash instead (or still better send trade them for Cuban dissidents so they take their place in Cuba's Goulag). They would be MUCH more useful and it would allow to put more money in the teaching of hard science and marketable disciplines

Posted by: JFM   2005-10-26 09:37  

#11  Gudrun Schyman, a founding member of the party and a former Swedish Communist party leader and author of erotic verse, advocates what she calls a “man tax to cover the cost of violence against women in the home”.

Well, Gudrun. What are you gonna do when some guy that gets to pay this tax decides to get his money's worth by using his wife's face as a speed bag? Sooth her with "erotic verse"? I mean, what the hell, he paid for it right?
Posted by: tu3031   2005-10-26 08:43  

#10  professor of gender studies
That says it all.
Posted by: Spot   2005-10-26 08:38  

#9  Sweden is not the only country with naming laws. Germany does the same:
Many Germans have long chafed under their country's rigid naming rules. But a European Union court may shortly deal the rules a blow for at least some of them. A preliminary ruling from the court has found that Leonhard, a German citizen born and named in Denmark, is entitled to his hyphen as a citizen of the EU.
In a society that values order and tradition, the rules are meant to prevent German children from being the victims of ridicule or confusion. A forename must indicate a person's gender, for example; if it doesn't, a second name should be given that clarifies the matter.

I believe Japan has similar rules.
Posted by: Steve   2005-10-26 08:34  

#8  Leave to the Lefties, or at least the US Left, to argue that allegedly making women equal to men, or making them something better than a housewife, is = to making them more $$$ and Home-dependent on Govt-led, female-centric Welfarism. They wilfully mislead and misrepresent to women, and then give alibi by blaming the Right. "Abortion Rights" is just a PC misnomer to trick Amer females, espec troubled andor underage minor females, into believing they are adults forevermore once they get pregnant, andor keep on getting pregnant, so that the Fed will keep on using public tax dollars to pay for BOTH the abortion process and the pregnant process, and that their "adult" rights as legal underage minors does NOT end once they unilaterally abort andor give up their baby(s). IOW, the Fed is engaging in Gender-specofoc Socialism and actually promoting and rewarding underage minor females for being individually-societally wilfully troubled, delinquent, andor naive, ......etc. ala is a pseudo-Federal job position.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2005-10-26 02:31  

#7  is this the feminist party which has as its emblem a turkey baster crossed with garden shears?---just askin'
Posted by: SON OF TOLUI   2005-10-26 02:09  

#6  ...Scum, which stands for the Society for Cutting Up Men.

Founder and sole (ahem) member: Valerie Solanis, the dame broad who shot Andy Warhol.

"Men are animals." Soooo...can you adopt 'em? Like puppies?

Hey there, little fella! You're a cutie pie, aren't ya? Look at those big bright eyes! You wanna come home with me? Huh? Do ya?

Posted by: Angie Schultz   2005-10-26 01:42  

#5  "...some observers questioned the need for a feminist party in a country whose women account for half the seats in parliament."

Lemme guess... Cuz they want it all?

Same old story, again. Somebody sets up an organization with reasonably tame goals - thus attracting membership and some respect, perhaps momentum. Then, slowly but surely, the true agenda is revealed and the membership doesn't immediately flee, not believing it's beyond retrieval. And slowly they are radicalized into believing that insanity is sane and absurdities are reasonable. And then all you can do is try to deprogram them, which is problematic, or kill 'em. They're all grown up and they're broken. It's always a helluva waste of good ,um, nevermind. Sigh.
Posted by: .com   2005-10-26 01:28  

#4  They should stick to bikini teams....
Posted by: AzCat   2005-10-26 00:50  

#3  More info

The custodian of the child (see Section 5.3.2) shall, within three months of
the birth of the child, give notice of the child’s forename to the tax authority.
This notification is made in writing. If the child is christened within the
Church of Sweden, the notification can be made to the person performing
the christening ceremony. The tax authority shall approve the forename.
The name must be suitable as a forename.

Page 32 - Swedish Family Law Manual

I guess there is no Lynx or Lamb - Heh heh heh
Posted by: BigEd   2005-10-26 00:29  

#2  and the creation of “gender-neutral” names

Try:

Dickless
Humorless
Silly
Strapon
Vacuous
Posted by: badanov   2005-10-26 00:22  

#1  OFFICIAL list of names?

Google Kai
Posted by: BigEd   2005-10-26 00:17  

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