April talking meme
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scripsiI got a bit overwhelmed by stuff this week. Not bad stuff, but a lot of it. So I will try to keep up with my questions and be a bit slow in commenting. I’ll be back in full swing on Monday
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verdande_mi What is your favourite and least favourite part of living in Sweden?
I’m not sure these are my absolute favourite/least favourite, but they are highs and lows on my list.
I like our taxes. They give us free medical care. I feel rather appalled when my friends in other countries has to worry over not being able to get the medical care they need.Our taxes also gives us free education. They gives parents the right to stay at home with their baby for the first 18 months. (You get 480 days with about 77% of your salary which is 16 months, but you still have the right to stay at home for 18.) Of course taxes pays a whole lot of other things, but those are the ones I’m most proud of.
I don’t like Sweden’s double standard when it comes to sexual abuse. Sweden, in general, likes to think we are a country with low tolerance against it, but our laws, and the way our courts function, when it comes to rape, are not something to be proud of. Of course everyone are against rape- but in reality it has to be the “right kind” of rape for it to count. Which means that a woman has to be attacked by an extremely violent stranger out of doors. And she has to have fought back and yelled and not been drunk and not worn short skirts and there should be witnesses too. Oh, and the attacker shouldn’t be Swedish, either. Then, perhaps, the court will say it was rape. If the rapist is an ordinary Swedish man, then courts seems to bend over backward to explain it away. Like when a teenager was gang-raped by several men who also used a flask. The court said they couldn’t rule out that it wasn’t voluntary “because she might be into kinky sex”. Yeah, sixteen year olds usually have such advanced taste in sex. Or the lowered sentenced for the men who gang-raped a woman because they did it one after another and not everyone at the same time. Or when it took several years to catch an extremely brutal serial-rapist who managed, by sheer luck, not to kill any of his victim. And part of why it took so long was because he was such a nice ordinary Swedish man who no one could believe could do such a thing.
Well, I could go on and on about this, but really, the Swedish judicial system needs a serious overhaul on that subject and a crash course in women’s sexuality too.
verdande_mi What is your favourite and least favourite part of living in Sweden?I’m not sure these are my absolute favourite/least favourite, but they are highs and lows on my list.
I like our taxes. They give us free medical care. I feel rather appalled when my friends in other countries has to worry over not being able to get the medical care they need.Our taxes also gives us free education. They gives parents the right to stay at home with their baby for the first 18 months. (You get 480 days with about 77% of your salary which is 16 months, but you still have the right to stay at home for 18.) Of course taxes pays a whole lot of other things, but those are the ones I’m most proud of.
I don’t like Sweden’s double standard when it comes to sexual abuse. Sweden, in general, likes to think we are a country with low tolerance against it, but our laws, and the way our courts function, when it comes to rape, are not something to be proud of. Of course everyone are against rape- but in reality it has to be the “right kind” of rape for it to count. Which means that a woman has to be attacked by an extremely violent stranger out of doors. And she has to have fought back and yelled and not been drunk and not worn short skirts and there should be witnesses too. Oh, and the attacker shouldn’t be Swedish, either. Then, perhaps, the court will say it was rape. If the rapist is an ordinary Swedish man, then courts seems to bend over backward to explain it away. Like when a teenager was gang-raped by several men who also used a flask. The court said they couldn’t rule out that it wasn’t voluntary “because she might be into kinky sex”. Yeah, sixteen year olds usually have such advanced taste in sex. Or the lowered sentenced for the men who gang-raped a woman because they did it one after another and not everyone at the same time. Or when it took several years to catch an extremely brutal serial-rapist who managed, by sheer luck, not to kill any of his victim. And part of why it took so long was because he was such a nice ordinary Swedish man who no one could believe could do such a thing.
Well, I could go on and on about this, but really, the Swedish judicial system needs a serious overhaul on that subject and a crash course in women’s sexuality too.
