Posted on 08/31/2018 11:30:06 PM PDT by aquila48
Walking around Statement music festival you might notice it is significantly different to the likes of Glastonbury or Sziget.
Launched Thursday in Gothenburg, Sweden, it claims to be the world's first festival exclusively for women, trans and non-binary people.
Swedish comedienne Emma Knyckare came up with the idea last summer when the media reported rape and sexual assaults at several Swedish music festivals.
"I had no idea how much work was involved in organising a music festival, now I know," she told Euronews.
The "cis-man-free" concept for the festival presented challenges Knyckare and her team had to consider. Cismen are men whose sex assigned at birth matches their gender identity, also known as non-transgender people.
"We work exclusively with women, non-binary and transgender persons. This ranges from artists to catering to security personnel. The whole area is free of cis-men. Because managers and technical teams will also attend, there will be a separate VIP section," she said.
Concerning access to the venue, Knyckare said she has hired a security company to work on a specialised "access system".
"There's a plan, no one will be questioned at the entrance. I can't tell you exactly how we will do it, but there is a plan," she said.
To finance the festival, Knyckare and her team first collected donations via a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign, raising half a million Swedish krona.
As many as 300,000 people gave money, which laid the foundations for the festival and a further budget was provided by means of sponsors.
(Excerpt) Read more at euronews.com ...
Having to identify someone as "straight" is offensive and hurtful to the all inclusive ones...
I would not want to go to a woman-only event even if it were attended by normal women. It sounds like this event is targeting radical leftist women, which just makes the “get me out of here before they drive me insane” factor several orders of magnitude higher. The fact that it is also trying to attract insane men makes it even worse.
I wonder what the attendance will look like, and how they will behave. A few years ago, there was a furry convention in (IIRC) Seattle, where the attendees acted like uncivilized heathens and trashed the hotel and convention center. Will this be something similar?
Sweden is a geographic disease which should be eliminated.
Looks like Muslims are doing just that.
Kate Millett, founder of NOW’s fantasy has come true.
Men who submit to the superior sex of women are tolerated at the back of the bus.
Calling men they do not know “Cismen” is probably a very good way to get themselves killed.
I once had mono. So, does that make me non-binary?
Passionate immigrant cismen will be waiting outside the event.
“”There’s a plan, no one will be questioned at the entrance. I can’t tell you exactly how we will do it, but there is a plan,” she said.”
What are they going to hang a side of hog over the entrance?
“Launched Thursday in Gothenburg, Sweden, it claims to be the world’s first festival exclusively for women, trans and non-binary people. “
Bet you the security for it are all not mentally ill men.
More like The Blob
What about the blind men looking for the local
seafood store who try to enter???
Why Sweden will be *slamic in a few years.
Must have been a Seattle thing, not a furry thing. Furries come to Pittsburgh fairly frequently, and have their annual convention here because they consider the city to be so furry-friendly. I have never heard of any problems from furries over the years.
This festival will be invaded by several hundred male Muslims, and that will be that.
Definitely.
Sounds like the HR Department at most American corporations. :)
No questions asked but they do cop a feel.
I did not mean to imply that all furries behave in that manner. But now that I see your post, I understand that my post could certainly have been interpreted that way.
It was a specific group of furries in the Seattle area who behaved in that abominable manner. Their behavior seemed to result from a combination of a high number of militant homosexuals and drug addicts attending the event. If you are interested, I will ask my son for a link to the youtube report on the event and post it here.
I have nothing against furries. In fact, recently I ran into one of my employees at a fabric store, who was helping his wife purchase “costume materials.” He showed me pictures of the costumes she creates—furries. Then we talked shop for a bit, because my son is trying to encourage me to start making furry suits once I retire.
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