Monday, 3 October 2011

Beaten lady (Slagen dam)* in Stockholm’s Subway



Today, 3th of October 2001. I drive home from the airport and I catch on the radio the last seconds of P1 morning news. The transmission ensues with the program “Call from listeners” (“Ring P1”). In the first call a woman-listener tells with an emotive and touching  voice what happened while she  travelled in the Stockholm subway. Follows the account as I hear it. The airport vicinity produces radio interferences from time to time and some details could be otherwise:

The wagon was full. She is sitting in the nearby of a younger woman who have her feet /stuff resting in the opposite bench. An older man approaches and wishes to use the empty seat. The young woman denies and refuses to take away her feet, or stuff, from the empty seat. The woman-listener asked to her to leave space to the older man. The young woman turn towards the woman-listener and, still without removing her stuff from the bench, hits the woman-listener with “a big smash” in the face using her fist. The hit is on the eye and the woman bends amid pain and shock. The hit-woman from her part continued sitting, immovable, as if she nothing extraordinary has really happened.

And here comes the central issue that, according to the woman-listener, it is the real reason for her call to the program:

She tells that no one, nobody among the passengers on the full huge wagon approaches to intervene, neither to stop the hit-woman nor to provide the victim some assistance.
What is even more amazing, the program leader comments, about: Yes, perhaps this kind of things happens because people nowadays are so much occupied with their own problems . . .!

[Continue reading on this story later to day in the Professors blogg analysis “The Satanism-theses of Eva Lundgren and the psychiatric origins of Swedish State-Feminism"]

* “Slagen dam” (the beaten lady) is the title of a book by radical-feminist Professor Eva Lundgren, the former head of the Department of Gender studies at the University of Uppsala. A main conclusion of her thesis is that men, and only men, are responsible for physical abuse against women in Sweden. She has also said that about nearly the half of Swedish women (47 %) have been beaten by "their" men in Sweden. 

On those accounts, the impact of such book was enormous, particularly in the design of the new Swedish legislation on the subject, and in which those notions are in its base.

Eva Lundgren received thus the 2002 award “Woman’s Deed of the Year” (“Årets kvinnogärning”) given by the nation-wide organization feminist organization ROKS, concretely stating it was on the base of her “research” as published in the book Slagen dam. 

Ensuing, the radical-feminists politicians advocating for new, harder “gender legislation”  - led by the former Minister of Justice Thomas Bodström and his partner Claes Borgström (the lawyer that instigated the case against Julian Assange, after the case have been closed) - obtained such laws, which, under the spirit of Slagen dam’s “epidemiological conclusions” have likely biased hundreds of trials against Sweden men since then.

However, in an analysis conducted later (2005) it was demonstrated that the figures in Slagen dam  have been fabricated or exaggerated, and thus the conclusions are to be  tenable as falsified. Professor Bo Rothstein from Gothenburg University published in a debate article in Dagens Nyheter [1] that Lundgren had exaggerated the figures of women been abused in that regard from five to ten times! [2]

The legislation thou is still there, ROKS is still proud to have given the award to Eva Lundgren [3], she continued working at Uppsala University until she retire in 2011, and her theses are more than ever cemented in the fanatic radical-feminist movement of Sweden.

The movement have announced the struggle for a further radicalization of the abuse and rape-laws, and have also publicly admitted that the Julian Assange case has become a symbol in that strategy.

References
[1] Rothstein B, “Uppsla universitet måste läggas ned”, DN debatt, Stockholm 22-8-2007 
http://www.dn.se/debatt/uppsala-universitet-maste-laggas-ned

[2] Rothstein: “Siffran för hur många kvinnor som utsätts för våld hade överdrivits mellan fem och tio gånger av Lundgren. Den visade också att hennes huvudtes, att det inte finns några skillnader mellan män som utövar våld och de som inte gör så, helt saknade stöd.”

[3] Författare: Lundgren, Eva
Titel: Slagen dam : mäns våld mot kvinnor i jämställda Sverige - en omfångsundersökning / Eva Lundgren 
 
Kategori: Medicin.
 
Förlag: Umeå Brottsoffermyndigheten
 
År: 2001
 
Språk: Svenska



More on the Assange case in the Professors blogg

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Wikileaks, J Assange, Assange,intressant, feminism



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