LJ, do me a favor? Please?

[harborshore]

I 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.

Comments

[extemporally.livejournal.com]

Done and DONE.

[mahoni.livejournal.com]

Done. (Though for some reason it took me clicking the link in your post three separate times before I saw the correct page content. I saw completely different content the first couple of times. Weird!)

[absenteye.livejournal.com]

Holy shit, I hadn't even seen that! That is fucking terrifying and unbelievable and so fucking typical of our hypocritical motherfucking country, I swear to god I will fucking punch someone. This from a country that believes itself to be a ~pioneer in terms of gender equality, yet keeps implying that we've gotten so far we're pretty much done with the whole feminism bit (NOW CAN WE MOVE ON TO TALKING ABOUT HOW BAD TAXES ARE AND WHAT A SHAME IT IS THAT HOMELESS PEOPLE ARE LITTERING THE STREETS SO THAT HONEST CITIZENS HAVE TO TIPTOE AROUND THEM AMIRITE)

brb liking my entire flist to this!

[turps33.livejournal.com]

Done.

[athenejen]

Done!

[expastic.livejournal.com]

Totally voted! That sucks. D:

[nightlilac.livejournal.com]

Done - several times!

[torakowalski.livejournal.com]

Voted! Also: wft? /o\

[x_dark_siren_x]

(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)

That is a good rule to have!

I'll vote. >.<. If only because someone should be encouraged towards having a female PM. I wondered (out loud, that was my mistake) why there were no women running for PM this election over here? My friends - who are all guys - just looked and me and said, "Because none of the party leaders are women." *facepalm* So not the point, guys. (And yet, I guess it kind of was, but not in the way they meant it.) And one of the smart-mouths decided to add that the candidates hadn't been announced yet, so how did I know there weren't going to be any independent female runners?

I'm pretty sure there weren't any.

I've heard that people don't want another femal PM because Thatcher was the last one. Yeah, well, Thatcher was also the last (at least, significant) Conservative PM, and guess what we have right now? -__-'

I kind of really wish our major newspapers did stuff like this. But then, our major newspapers are owned by Rupert Murdoch, and you do not want to know what The Sun ran the day before the election...

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[wethepainted.livejournal.com]

Voted a bunch of times.

I'm shamefully uninformed about Finnish politics, but I think our second female prime minister, Mari Kiviniemi, was appointed to the position two days ago and that makes me a little bit proud of this country right now.

[rosykate.livejournal.com]

Voted! Multiple times, actually. It's funny, my women and politics class was full of praise for Sweden for being not as dreadful as we in America are, and totally glossed over the fact that sexism and misogyny still exists. Sigh.

[redbrickrose.livejournal.com]

Done. <3 Ugh, that's so disheartening.