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"What do you think about ... creating an awesome festival where only non-men are welcome until ALL men learn how to behave?" This comes from the article titled "Women Cheer as Sweden's Man-Free Music Festival Kicks Off." Initiated as a response to the wave of sexual assaults at Swedish festivals in recent years, only female bands are performing, and "neither male security guards nor journalists are allowed to enter." However, "transgender women [sic] born as men are allowed to attend. Only men who identify with the sex they were born with, also called cis men, are banned." Such a radical...

A “feminist” snow removal plan that dictated sidewalks be cleared before streets plunged Sweden’s capital in chaos after a record snowfall. The biggest snowfall in 111 years proved the first real test for the “feminist” or “gender-equal” snow removal policy brought in by a new municipal council controlled by a Left-Green coalition. The city government is intent on putting as much civic energy into clearing bike paths and sidewalks used by environmentally- and fitness-minded women as into the roads frequented by male-dominated motor vehicle traffic. But chaos reportedly was the result for both genders, according to the tabloid Aftonbladet’s headline,...