It is not about women in parliament - it is about extreme right or extreme left dumbasses in parliament. I equally hate both and do not discriminate against either one. I am extreme centrist. I wish the government just fuck-off from my bed (prostitution) or from my safe cabinets (guns and rights to use it). And do not pretend that government can provide medical service - they cannot. Anyone knows a country like that?
Feminists want all the decision making jobs in government and business. There is no concern about access to jobs such as plumbers.
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Gendering the debate
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While maintaining that this was not about
women's sexuality, the supporters of the bill claimed that women should control their own bodies, and that this was about
men's access to women's bodies.
Feminists and women's movements had carried out considerable lobbying for criminalising purchase, but in the end, it was the women's groups within the parliamentary parties that were responsible for the success of the legislation, crossing and even defying their own party lines. However, this was not as homogeneous as is sometimes perceived. Moderate women never joined the movement, and both Moderate and a number of Liberal women opposed the bill.
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Most of the parliamentary debate was undertaken by women, which Ulrika Lorentzi, former editor of the feminist magazine
Bang, referred to as the "Sex Wars".
[41] Women held 41% of the seats in parliament which, although the highest proportion in Europe,
[42] still meant they had to lobby for male support within their parties in order to get this passed. The women's movement had prostitution high on its agenda, criminalisation of purchase had been on that agenda for a hundred years, and there was little opposition to this. However, ensuing public debates revealed that even Swedish women were divided on the approach that had been taken.
For the women, this was a test case of their ability to come together as a caucus and push through a women's agenda over the wishes of male colleagues. Messing's agenda was expansive: "I believe that in 20 years, today's decision will be described as the big leap forward to fight violence against women and to reach Kvinnofrid."
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