Bron: BBC.com Worklife
Sweden’s male only supper clubs for feminists
Maddy Savage
May 4th, 2020
Private dinners where men discuss feelings and equality have taken off in Sweden. But the concept isn’t without controversy.
Few topics are off-limits at the male-only meetings attended by Swedish entrepreneur and environmentalist Johannes Wretljung Persson. The impact of porn, groping in clubs and misogynist banter at work have already been widely debated.
The 33-year-old says the goal is to create an environment in which a handful of men can “talk about inequality and patriarchy, and how to be a better human being”.
“It’s things people have done in the past, that they realise, ‘This is so bad that I did this!’,” adds Tård Wennerborg, a tech worker who is another attendee and organiser of the events, which take place in Västerås, west of Stockholm. “Also things you haven’t done – you have heard other people say things or do things, and you haven’t reacted or opposed it.”
