{"id":2859,"date":"2012-04-23T19:36:46","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T18:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/?p=2859"},"modified":"2021-11-09T06:43:20","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T05:43:20","slug":"swedens-crazy-social-experiment-with-gender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/2012\/04\/swedens-crazy-social-experiment-with-gender\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweden&#8217;s crazy social experiment with gender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/double_x\/doublex\/2012\/04\/hen_sweden_s_new_gender_neutral_pronoun_causes_controversy_.html\">http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/double_x\/doublex\/2012\/04\/hen_sweden_s_new_gender_neutral_pronoun_causes_controversy_.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read if u dare. These people are I also predict that this will not change sex-based stereotypes. Men and women are simply different due to genetics (and epigenetics etc.).<\/p>\n<p>Altho, as a linguist, i like the idea of gender free pronouns even tho they reasons they want to introduce it are insane. The linguist mentioned in the article is right that the EN <em>he\/she<\/em>, DA <em>han\/hun<\/em>, SV <em>han\/hon<\/em> clutters up sentences.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The free lifestyle magazine, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nojesguiden.se\/\"><em>N\u00f6jesguiden<\/em><\/a>, which is distributed in major Swedish cities and is similar to the <em>Village Voice<\/em>, recently released an issue using <em>hen<\/em> throughout. In his column, writer Kawa Zolfagari says, &#8220;It can be hard to handle the male ego sometimes. <strong>I myself tend to get a stinging feeling when a female friend has had it with sexism or has got hurt because of some guy and desperately blurts out some generalisation about men.<\/strong> Sometimes I think &#8216;Hen knows me, hen knows I am not an idiot, why does hen speak that way of all men?&#8217; <em>N\u00f6jesguiden<\/em>&#8216;s editor, Margret Atladottir, said <em>hen<\/em> ought to be included in the dictionary of the Swedish Academy, the body that awards the Nobel Prize in literature.<\/p>\n<p>Why is he not complaining that she is being sexist? Oh the double standards. It is fair to criticize men, but not women. Even men think like this, after all, <em>women and children first<\/em> is pretty much a built-in feature of men due to men&#8217;s disposability.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vp8tToFv-bA\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nGenerally, this woman has alot of good videos about feminism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/double_x\/doublex\/2012\/04\/hen_sweden_s_new_gender_neutral_pronoun_causes_controversy_.html Read if u dare. These people are I also predict that this will not change sex-based stereotypes. Men and women are simply different due to genetics (and epigenetics etc.). Altho, as a linguist, i like the idea of gender free pronouns even tho they reasons they want to introduce it are insane. The linguist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1850],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feminismequality","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2859"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9742,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2859\/revisions\/9742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}