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Sweden's 'man-free' festival was discriminatory, rules Swedish ombudsman

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Re: Sweden's 'man-free' festival was discriminatory, rules Swedish ombudsman

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Post by burfog » Wed, Dec 19, 2018, 7:11 PM UTC

The article mentions "sexual assault" as the motivation. In recent years, the rate has spiked in Sweden, from almost nothing to being really common.

The situation is pretty weird, because the cause is obvious but discussing it is considered unacceptable. Living in Sweden does not make a person follow the norms of traditional Swedish culture.

Re: Sweden's 'man-free' festival was discriminatory, rules Swedish ombudsman

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Post by belorn » Thu, Dec 20, 2018, 1:57 PM UTC

thecopy wrote: post #2

I couldn't care less about this festival. Let them do what they want to do. Anyway, from what i understood, "cis-men" was allowed, they needed to be due to construction, technicians etc, but they where "held" in what by the organizeres was called a "man-pen".

The organizers had made public and explicit statement that "cis-men was not allowed", but then did not enforce it at entry.

Also, a "man-pen"? Just imagine if the targeted demographic was something else, like Muslims.

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