My Blog

… and a warm hug to Margareta Winberg.

The equality minister Jens Orback got in the International Women’s Day bandwagon this 8th of March, and as he has been accustoming us, managed to keep the undivided attention of his anal retentive crowd while making the rest of us frown and laugh. Accompanied by lovely Margareta Winberg, a well known apparatchik nominated for life for the Razzie like award of the most dubious remarks about women men and equality, Jens came up with an amazing idea. Sweden, apparently, needs a gender equality agency. Brilliant Jens, you are the man. Because it is not as if there isn’t another equality agency already, like, say, the one slammed for being unequal. But this is a minor nitpick, as, after all, what are our taxes for if not to create agencies and populate them with fat, Aftonbladet armed lazy cats sharing the same political body odor?

But Jens is rarely happy with himself. No doubt inspired by Margareta and the by now ubiquitous roars of the crowd, he had to add with a serious face that, oh, well “Sweden is uncivilized”. And he continues – “Women are abused, get salaries based on their gender and become ill from the double work of home and job”. Newsflash to you Jens, women do not get salaries based on their gender, they get them mostly because they make the wrong choices for their careers and settle on a downward spiral of part time jobs when they have children. Don’t believe me? I can do the homework for you.

A firm believer you must be on the “no personal responsibility, always blame someone, preferably a man” rule must have difficulties accepting this, but people can’t simply go about their lives making bad decisions and then expect no consequence of it. Sounds unfair doesn’t it? Quite bothersome indeed. By the way Jens, isn’t your party still running the show in Sweden? Then with so many women working for the state – you are after all the biggest employer in this country, and of women in particular – why but oh why don’t you just fix that?

A last point, Jens. I take exception in your comment that one of the biggest problems facing Swedish women is their dependence upon men. Geee, is this our fault too? I don’t know where you live, but the country where I live is everything but uncivilized. It is a democratic country where no one forces anything on anyone. On the other hand I do see pretty desperate women dreaming sordid ways to be dependent on men, disregarding dignity and common sense for the warm lure of “comfort”. But now that you mention it, where can one find a real independent woman? This is an honest question, as I would kill for one. Maybe at the FI parade, old and new? Surely not, as even Susanne Linde, one of its founders, brazenly remarked when caught dabbling with benefit fraud: “No, my husband deals with the tax declaration”.

Jens, I can summarize everything I just said in two words: get real. Please learn when to stop blowing hot air. I am having the feeling that you are part of the Swedish plan to be completely oil free by 2020. In a lab somewhere in this country (Kiruna would be my first guess) scientists must be laboring day and night in ways to use all the hot air you and your Social Democrat ilk blow. But as environmentally safe blowing hot air is, it is an insult to people’s intelligence nevertheless.

Want to commemorate the International Women’s Day in style? The trick is to help women achieve their full potential, and make the right decisions. Every time you go around using those same stale excuses for women and perpetuating the same old myth of a patriarchal society bent on putting women on their place, whatever that place is, women geniuses are being lost to a life of indifference. And you know who is the biggest loser? Not women, but the entire world.

Be Sociable, Share!

•