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LJ, do me a favor? Please?
Jun. 23rd, 2010 03:56 pmI swear, my cup runneth over. Apparently it's crappy sexism week!
So in order to make me a little less mad, would you help me out? It involves going to a Swedish website and voting. The website in question is Dagens Nyheter, which is our biggest daily newspaper. They currently have a poll up that asks why readers believe Sweden hasn't yet had a female prime minister. The three options to choose from are, from left to right: Diskriminering (discrimination), Tillfälligheter (coincidence), and Brist på kompetens (Lack of competence).
Currently the last one is winning. By a lot. Right, obviously it's because no female politician is qualified enough that our parties have had something like three or four female leaders through the years (if you discount the Green Party, because they have it written into their rules that they have to be led by a man and a woman) and that the Social Democrats haven't had one until now, and the Moderates (the biggest conservative party) never have. Obviously that's because the women aren't qualified enough.
In order to provide a little more context, the leader of the Social Democrats has been through all manners of hell because she's a woman. I can't even tell you how many fucking articles has been written about her handbag and her lack of firm leadership and--okay, breathing.
So if you would, go to the website above, scroll down just a little bit until you see the radio buttons, and clicking on the one to the left. I mean, if you're willing to take my word for it that discrimination is most likely the primary cause of this. There's no submit button or anything, just click on the radio button and your vote will get tallied. I don't expect that I have a big enough readership to actually win, but perhaps we could even out the numbers? I would really appreciate it.
PS: I know it's just an internet poll. But it's at a major newspaper and it's kind of reflective of how many people in my country seem to not think women are qualified enough to lead us. It's been a tiresome election year.
So in order to make me a little less mad, would you help me out? It involves going to a Swedish website and voting. The website in question is Dagens Nyheter, which is our biggest daily newspaper. They currently have a poll up that asks why readers believe Sweden hasn't yet had a female prime minister. The three options to choose from are, from left to right: Diskriminering (discrimination), Tillfälligheter (coincidence), and Brist på kompetens (Lack of competence).
Currently the last one is winning. By a lot. Right, obviously it's because no female politician is qualified enough that our parties have had something like three or four female leaders through the years (if you discount the Green Party, because they have it written into their rules that they have to be led by a man and a woman) and that the Social Democrats haven't had one until now, and the Moderates (the biggest conservative party) never have. Obviously that's because the women aren't qualified enough.
In order to provide a little more context, the leader of the Social Democrats has been through all manners of hell because she's a woman. I can't even tell you how many fucking articles has been written about her handbag and her lack of firm leadership and--okay, breathing.
So if you would, go to the website above, scroll down just a little bit until you see the radio buttons, and clicking on the one to the left. I mean, if you're willing to take my word for it that discrimination is most likely the primary cause of this. There's no submit button or anything, just click on the radio button and your vote will get tallied. I don't expect that I have a big enough readership to actually win, but perhaps we could even out the numbers? I would really appreciate it.
PS: I know it's just an internet poll. But it's at a major newspaper and it's kind of reflective of how many people in my country seem to not think women are qualified enough to lead us. It's been a tiresome election year.