Posted on 07/01/2011 3:56:13 PM PDT by NYer
STOCKHOLM, JUne 27, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In accordance with a national school curriculum that seeks to fight the “stereotyping” of gender roles, a preschool in the Sodermalm district of Stockholm has incorporated a gender-free pedagogy that eliminates any reference to gender completely.
Staff at the “Egalia” preschool avoid using words like “him” or “her” and instead address the 30 or so boys and girls, aged 1 to 6 years, as “friends.”
“Society expects girls to be girlie, nice and pretty, and boys to be manly, rough and outgoing,” Jenny Johnsson, a 31-year-old teacher at the taxpayer-funded school told the Daily Mail. “Egalia gives them a fantastic opportunity to be whoever they want to be.”
Director Lotta Rajalin told AP that the school has hired a “gender pedagogue” to help staff remove masculine and feminine references in language and behavior, going so far as to make sure that lego blocks and other building toys are kept next to kitchen and cooking toys to avoid any gender roles being given preference.
The Swedish pronouns “han” and “hon” (him and her), for instance, have been replaced in the school by the genderless “hen,” a made-up word that doesn’t exist in Swedish but is used extensively by feminists and homosexuals.
“We use the word ‘Hen’ for example when a doctor, police, electrician or plumber or such is coming to the kindergarten,” Rajalin said. “We don’t know if it’s a he or a she so we just say ‘Hen is coming around 2 p.m.’ Then the children can imagine both a man or a woman. This widens their view.”
There are also no traditional children’s books such as Snow White, Cinderella or the classic fairy tales, Rajalin said. The shelves instead have books that deal with homosexual couples, single parents, adopted children, and treatises on “new ways to play.”
“A concrete example could be when they’re playing house and the role of the mom already is taken and they start to squabble,” Rajalin said. “Then we suggest two moms or three moms and so on.”
Not all Swedish parents, however, support their country’s agenda of eliminating gender roles.
“Different gender roles aren’t problematic as long as they are equally valued,” Tanja Bergkvist told AP, denouncing what she called “gender madness” in Sweden.
Bergkvist observed that those promoting equality between the sexes by breaking down gender roles “say there’s a hierarchy where everything that boys do is given higher value, but I wonder who decides that it has higher value. Why is there higher value in playing with cars?”
Bergkvist, who is a vocal critic of the state’s promotion of a genderless structure in schools and an academia focused on gender studies, noted on her blog as an example of the “gender madness” in the country that the state-funded Swedish Science Council had granted $80,000 for a postdoctoral fellowship for research into “the trumpet as a symbol of gender.”
“So this will be imposed on the Muslims in Sweden too, right? “
Hell no. A few years ago, the Swedes had to change their precious socialized medicine law when the Muzzies DEMANDED that only female doctors examine Muslim female patients.
The Swedes will make a show of social sophistication, but not to the point of endangering train stations.
After thousands of years of science and logic and reason, the Big Lie of the communists wins....over logic and reason and biology. To think they can deny the design of nature and “reinvent” something better....social engineering will destroy the happiness of their children,but the selfish narcissists care nothing about the future of societies....only about their sick agenda and playing god. They think they are so “wise” when they have no understanding of philosophy and psychiatry....only of Pavlov and Skinner and conditioning human beings as if they are animals....oh, yes, their kids are just animals to to be herded and taught lies like “you have two mommies”.
They think that children can develop into Newtons and Einsteins by filling their heads with mush and lies and not teach them fundamental truths.....sad, social engineering and creating third world slaves. It all stems from “homosexuality is good and natural” mentality which is an obvious lie and a sick basis for society.
Speechless. For once.
Let’s point out too — nearly every last Swedish toddler attends these Lemming Breeding facilities.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasa_(ship). The Latin based languages are going to have a tough time incorporating this change into their speech and writings.
This is right out of Ayn Rand’s novella, “Anthem”....
Just sayin’...
Södermalm (part of Inner Stockholm) is ill-famed for being the most politically correct part of all Scandinavia, thereby having established itself as the most disturbed corner of this planet.
I take pride in being Swedish, but please spare me the insult of being associated with Swedish PC politicians.
Yes, we are rich and drive around in Feminist Volvos.
But that doesn’t mean we are role models.
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