Feminist Initiative (party, Sweden)
Fi received 3.1% of the vote in the
2014 general election,
The party went public with much public approval. 5% of the population said the feminist party most assuredly had their vote – clearing the hurdle to be met for political parties to get into the Riksdag – the parliament of Sweden. Upwards of 20-25% of people said they would consider voting for the party – very impressive numbers for a nation with multiple major political parties. This wave of support was bolstered by the media, who praised the movement for advancing a progressive agenda based on feminism.
Buoyed by this support, the party began to advance an increasingly aggressive agenda. While their leader
Schyman had previously espoused support for a “man tax” that would purely be used to fund female-only shelters, she once again began to talk about the advancing this tax. The rhetoric heated up when some members began to publically
call for sex to be based purely on verbal consent, a law like the policy on sexual conduct at
Antioch College.
However, the real impetus – being anti-male – began to seep through. What kicked off the public’s souring on the party started with the release of the movie “The Gender War.” This movie described in detail how radical and how anti-male shelters for women are in Sweden. A feminist activist in the movie stated that half of women in Sweden are victims of male violence, a clearly false claim. Further complicating matters was a positive reference to the SCUM Manifesto – most specifically the quote, “
To call a man an animal is to flatter him: he’s a machine, a walking dildo.” The director of Sweden’s women’s shelther, Under Von Wachenfeldt, agreed with statement, saying:
“Yes, man is an animal. Don’t you agree?”
Tiina Rosenburg gave a speech at the conference, which both was met with thunderous approval and disgust from convention attenders and the media. Her speech was famous for her exhortation that
women who sleep with men are “traitors to their gender.”
That be said, it's not her own words, it's a quote. BBC has a great documentary on "radical" feminism (which, in most aspects, like sex negativism, is mainstream now):