Sweden's quest to achieve a gender neutral society

[Eddie Teach]

Well, I noticed a significant increase in my ability to make 3-point shots in basketball when I got strong enough to *shoot* the ball that far instead of heaving it at the basket.

[The Brain]

We still have gender studies and crap like that at Swedish "universities". Places where low-grade DNA gathers and comes up with garbage like "hen".

[Valmy]

We still have gender studies and crap like that at Swedish "universities". Places where low-grade DNA gathers and comes up with garbage like "hen".

Don't worry.  Sweden is going to destroy gender and it will no longer be necessary to study it.

[Neil]

Like calling curling a sport.

You try dragging a 40lb hunk of granite down a sheet of ice using nothing but a broom for two hours before telling me curling isn't a sport.

Dragging?  You're doing it wrong.

At any rate, curling is more of a sport than baseball.

[Neil]

We still have gender studies and crap like that at Swedish "universities". Places where low-grade DNA gathers and comes up with garbage like "hen".

Don't worry.  Sweden is going to destroy gender and it will no longer be necessary to study it.

A good point.  Most Scandi men seem fairly emasculated.

[Zanza]

Pretending that something isn't there doesn't make it go away.

[Martinus]

Yeah the goals of equality are good but it sorta sounds kinda authoritarian...but granted these are schools not exactly bastions of freedom.

Well, pre-university schools rarely are. It always annoys me when people attack programms like this from a conservative perspective, by arguing that this makes the school authoritarian - schools are and have always been authoritarian - it's just a matter of what behaviour we are enforcing.

[Valmy]

Well, pre-university schools rarely are.

Yes that is what I said.

"That sounds squicky but then this is a school so that is probably not that unusual" was what I was going for.

[Barrister]

Like calling curling a sport.

You try dragging a 40lb hunk of granite down a sheet of ice using nothing but a broom for two hours before telling me curling isn't a sport.

Dragging?  You're doing it wrong.

At any rate, curling is more of a sport than baseball.

No, dragging a rock is a curling term.  You take a rock that is really doesn't have enough weight, but you put down a serious scrub in order to get it further.

[crazy canuck]

If a sport can be played at a competitive level by people who are overweight or otherwise unathletic then yes, curling is a sport.

[Barrister]

If a sport can be played at a competitive level by people who are overweight or otherwise unathletic then yes, curling is a sport.

While you used to see plenty of overweight, out of shape curlers, you rarely do anymore.  The top curlers have all learned the advantages of being fit in curling.

[Neil]

If a sport can be played at a competitive level by people who are overweight or otherwise unathletic then yes, curling is a sport.

While you used to see plenty of overweight, out of shape curlers, you rarely do anymore.  The top curlers have all learned the advantages of being fit in curling.

Yeah, thing have really changed over the last 15 years or so.  These days, most leads and seconds look like old-school bodybuilders.

[derspiess]

I think the sport of Curling's greatest failure is the inability to have come up with a name other than "Curling".

[Jacob]

I think I speak for us all when I call for Sweden to be bathed in atomic fire. 

You basically never speak for me. Ever.

Even if I agree with you on something.

[Queequeg]

Just in case anyone wants an actual example of the amazing things having a gender neutral language can do for women's rights.