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Sweden's 'Man-Free' Feminist Festival Ruled Discriminatory
Submitted by Mastodon on Tue, 2018-12-18 14:54
Article here. Excerpt:
'The feminist Statement festival with no admittance for "cis-men", held in Gothenburg in August this year, has ultimately received a formal condemnation from Sweden's anti-discrimination authorities. During the festival, men were relegated to a cordoned-off area called the "manpen".
Describing the Statement festival as "male-free" is a violation of anti-discrimination legislation, the Swedish Discrimination Ombudsman (DO) found in a belated ruling.
The European Court of Justice's established practice is that public statements that discourage some people from engaging in an activity constitute grounds for discrimination, the DO found.
Earlier this year, the organisers promoted their festival as "the world's first major music festival for women, non-binary and transgender only", informing that men were not welcome. In practice, though, men were not physically prevented from buying a ticket or entering the festival. However, men who are technicians, managers and part of artists' entourages were restricted to a cordoned-off area backstage dubbed the "manpen" or "manpaddock".'
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Dismiss all pretense...
... and call it a "manpig-pen". Man = pig = swine = tasty-with-eggs.
Do you suppose the manpigs in the manpig-pen were later slaughtered by big bull-dykes and cut into bacon strips for sale from the food vendor stalls?
In this new world, who are the pens and paddocks for?
The core message of the decision is what really shocks me.
Firstly, the Swedish Discrimination Ombudsman made a point of stressing that the decision was based on a "technical" ground only, given "no individual suffered damage as a consequence of the management's statement that men are unwelcome". Previous decisions by the Swedish Discrimination Ombudsman on the exclusion of women from events or services did not require damage to be demonstrated. So discrimination against males requires an additional element of “damage” to be considered anything other than a “technical” breach of discrimination laws.
Secondly, treating a group like animals on the basis of their sex, race or sexual preference is OK too apparently. So putting men in "manpens" or using the term "manpens" is OK, and is not evidence of discrimination. Language frequently reveals entrenched cultures. The use of offensive and demeaning terms such as “manpen”, “manpaddock” and “cismen”, without remark or censor, reveals an entrenched and unquestioned misandry both within the festival committees and the Swedish Discrimination Ombudsman offices.
Thirdly, by finding this decision, the Ombudsman demonstrated an entrenched culture of gender hatred and discrimination, a culture that allowed them to apply different weights and meanings to laws protecting human rights, based on the sex of the victim. Perversely, the office created to protect citizens from unlawful discrimination, validated a culture of discrimination and overlooked evidence gender hatred.
Well here's a heads up for Sweden! The term cis-men is offensive and demeaning. Your dismissal of "a few cis-men" as inconsequential says more about your bigoted sexist attitude than it does about men. Your attitude that discrimination against some kinds of people is less important than discrimination against others, just shows you up as morally and ethical corrupt. Finally, if the new world you are creating is going to be like your festival, lets get it straight right from the start, who are you building pens and paddocks for?
Well isn't it obvious?
"Finally, if the new world you are creating is going to be like your festival, lets get it straight right from the start, who are you building pens and paddocks for?"
Well who do you think, O Cis-man?
Funny thing is, if evil cis-men are to be penned up, it'll be cis-men building the pens then walking into them. That is because the only ppl who could herd up cis-men is themselves.
Could you see a group of 5 women in black skirts and button-down shirts shouting "Schnell! Schnell!" at a group of 50 men, directing them into a pen? I can just see what would happen. Laughter followed by men throwing the women over their shoulders then walking them into the pen and leaving them there.
Anyway, I wouldn't be TOO worried but I agree the commission's choice of words and lack of concern for the animal-penning of men is decidedly counter-counter-discriminatory. Remember this: the penned-up men put themselves there. It sounds like the men in the pen were men who made the festival happen. It sounds like they were tradesmen who worked on the stages and stuff. In fact I'll bet you the festival couldn't've happened without "cis-men" working to do it.
Same shit, different day: women want XYZ, so they go to men to get it. Then men give it to them.
Remember rebel -- the only one who can put a man in an animal pen is himself. Should a feminist ever walk up to you and ask you to build her a soundstage and then when done go wait in a pen just in case you're needed to fix the stage during the festival, pick her up and toss her into the nearest dumpster.