“Brainwashing Norway”
January 11, 2012
AT Oz Conservative, Mark Richardson writes about a Norwegian documentary in which the filmaker, Harald Eia, tries to discover why sex differences in occupational choices remain despite Norway’s progressive “gender equality.” Eia does his own research and confronts Norwegian academics with scientific evidence that sex differences are innate. The idea strikes them as outlandish. Richardson writes:
He asks Cathrine Egeland (who looks a bit like Ellen deGeneres) “What is your scientific basis to say that biology plays no part in the two genders’ choice of work?” She replies,
My scientific basis? I have what you would call a theoretical basis. There’s no room for biology in there for me. I feel that the social sciences should challenge thinking that is based on the differences between humans being biological. (34.50)
That’s a bit like saying “I’m not interested in the truth, I’m interested in getting an outcome that I consider to be the moral one.” Note too that liberals like to claim that they are the ones who are for science, but in this case it’s the liberal Cathrine Egeland who is rejecting the way that science challenges her political beliefs (“there is no room for biology in there for me”).
— Comments —
Vincent C. writes:
I lived four years in Norway, assigned to the US Embassy as Press Attache, and continue to correspond with my former Norwegian contacts. Further, my grandson currently lives in Norway, so it is fair to say that I am more than vaguely aware of what is happening in that Scandinavian nation, a nation whose average income is now greater than its Scandinavian counterparts: Sweden and Denmark. Finland and Iceland are Nordic, not Scandinavian, countries.
It is neither inaccurate nor exaggerated to state that the comments and perspective of Catherine Egeland have become the majority view of Norwegians, and have been so for decades. Although more prevalent in urban areas than in rural one, gender leveling – called “janteloven” – is part and parcel of the Norwegian societal system.
But as many of your readers know – or should – Ms. Egeland is only the tip of the iceberg, for those sentiments not only are commonplace amongst the populace, but have become the essential framework of the nation’s government’s operational plan to achieve such ends.
This effort by Norwegian officials and bureaucrats to realign the role of men and women in society and the workplace will not end, for deeply rooted in that desired end is the Utopian belief that, with or without God’s will, men and women can change Nature. To stoop to the vernacular of my Brooklyn youth, “That ain’t gonna happen.”
