Facekicker Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 Margot Wallström, the newly minted foreign minister, has said that under her leadership Sweden will become the only country in the world to conduct a “feminist foreign policy.” That’s a perspective that flows from U.N. Security Council Resolution 1325, a landmark measure that recognized both the disproportionate impact war has on women and the role women must play in ensuring peace and security….By empowering women, the argument goes, there are better chances of snuffing out wars before they start and of ending them in more equitable ways. However, it is less clear what such a feminist foreign policy has to say about the old-school power politics that Putin has helped resuscitate in the past year.During a recent debate in the Swedish parliament, Wallström said that her feminist approach is based on the American political scientist Joseph Nye’s concept of “smart power.” “The tools of foreign policy can, in varying degrees, be hard as well as soft. The situation at hand determines this,” Wallström said. “The half of the population that so far has been almost systematically excluded and forgotten — namely, women — will now be included.”Asked how she believes a feminist foreign policy will help end Russian aggression, Wallström suggested it would be useful to review women’s participation in the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe and to look at what it does to address the problems women face — a statement exactly as vague as it sounds … Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magisme Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 Good luck with that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Amir Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIPSvIz9NDsThat said, can't be more disastrous than the current US foreign policy of spending trillions investing in the Middle East and still watching it all go to shit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Facekicker Posted January 7, 2015 Author Share Posted January 7, 2015 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
netcat Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 (edited) Putin will pursue a policy of protecting Gayropean women against corrupting influence of feminism Edited January 7, 2015 by netcat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 I reminds me of that Churchill quote, the one about ''an appeaser'' feeding ''a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.'' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alfierose Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 Sorry folks I think those cartoons are in breach of our content rules. If Downzy or Russ disagrees I'll unhide them. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Satanisk_Slakt Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 I like feminism. I don't think that's a problem at all. The world would be better off if more countries had a strong feminism going. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Facekicker Posted January 7, 2015 Author Share Posted January 7, 2015 Sorry folks I think those cartoons are in breach of our content rules. If Downzy or Russ disagrees I'll unhide them.No worries. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Facekicker Posted January 7, 2015 Author Share Posted January 7, 2015 I like feminism. I don't think that's a problem at all. The world would be better off if more countries had a strong feminism going.By feminism do you actually mean egalitarianism? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Satanisk_Slakt Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 I don't have the energy to google what that means. I'm sick today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Cnut Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 Fuckin' hell, Swedes countering aggression, now there'a a fuckin' novel idea, i hear half the population spent the Second World War locked in outhouses with only their dogs for company. Still, they like a bit of that over there eh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Drama Posted January 8, 2015 Share Posted January 8, 2015 Call me Swedish then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magisme Posted January 8, 2015 Share Posted January 8, 2015 I like feminism. I don't think that's a problem at all. The world would be better off if more countries had a strong feminism going.By feminism do you actually mean egalitarianism? He doesn't know what he means. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Satanisk_Slakt Posted January 8, 2015 Share Posted January 8, 2015 Actually I know exactly what I mean, but I've never even heard that word before. Oh well, it's of no matter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulMonster Posted January 8, 2015 Share Posted January 8, 2015 I believe "femismisn" can mean sort of different things to different people, from being a synomym to egalitarianism to a belief in a matriarchic society. That's why it is a bit pointless to attack people from merely being "feminists" or from saying that word. You really have to figure out what they really mean. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magisme Posted January 8, 2015 Share Posted January 8, 2015 I believe "femismisn" can mean sort of different things to different people, from being a synomym to egalitarianism to a belief in a matriarchic society. That's why it is a bit pointless to attack people from merely being "feminists" or from saying that word. You really have to figure out what they really mean.Most of the time I've found that they have to figure out what they really mean because they're usually ignorant that feminism doesn't have a single, rock solid definition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Cnut Posted January 8, 2015 Share Posted January 8, 2015 Call me Swedish then.They wouldnt have ya 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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