Two memes and annoying Swedish politics...

[kseenaa]

1.
Pick up the nearest book to you. Turn to page 45.
The first sentence describes your sex life in 2012.

Only book-like thing on my desk: The programme for Les Miserables in Malmö... On page 45? A photo off Jean Valjean carrying Marius through the sewers to save him... Hmmm... Not sure how to interpret that. X-D

2.
the problem with lj: we all think we are so close, but really, we know nothing about each other. so i want you to ask me something you think you should know about me (real life or fandom related, i don't care), something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. ask away.

afterward, post this in your lj and find out what people don't know about you.

please feel free to ask whatever you want. i will be honest but i reserve the right to not answer a question if i feel uncomfortable with the topic...

And don't hold back. I am, as you all know, quite honest. :-) So give me your best shot, OK? :-D

Right, and now for something less fun. :-P I mean, Sweden is a pretty good place to live no matter your sexual orientation or your religious beliefs... But right now? Now I am somewhat ashamed of being swedish. :-P It doesn't happen often, but right now I am.

If you are a transgender person in Sweden today looking to legally change your gender, in the 21st century you are still forced to undergo surgery that will render you permanently infertile and forever unable to have children. This barbaric practice of forced sterilizations has to stop!

The majority of the Swedish parliament is in favor of modifying this law - but up until now Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt has let a small conservative party block this long awaited reform.

Bah, I say. :-/ Shame on our government. I'd be really greatful if my friends list could take the time to sign this petition to give Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt a big fat kick in the ass...

Stop forced sterilization in Sweden

Thanx. :-)

Comments

[kseenaa.livejournal.com]

On might think that is a tough question, but it really is not.

My mom still lives where I grew up, so I do get tide-bits of gossip from her.

I know one of my first bullies, Zacharias, ended up owning the pool place in the little town... which had so much coke in it sold and used it was literary crawling out of the walls... or so I was told. From what I heard he also ended up in a couple of relationships where he beat the shit out of the girl in question. :-/ Yep. He ended up jail. I don't know if he is still there, but from all that coke? Probably a loooooong time. Swedish drug-laws are HARD (as they should be). To be fair, he had a really, REALLY shitty childhood, but still. :-P He used to hit me, beat on me and throw things at me. Only one that used physically violence towards me. Left me with a scar in my right eyebrow from a chair he threw at my face when I was 11 or 12. The eyebrow looks a bit thinner and edgy from it, sorta... Hard to explain.

Then there is Dennis. Now, he was interesting. When you were alone with him (we went with the same school bus) he was a bit shy and quite. Not bad at all. Could talk to him and everything. But when he got together with his friend Färes... All shit went lose... They used to throw obcene names after me and throw used snuff (a sort of tobacco you have under your lip) after me, spit after me, show me into walls... I know Dennis tried to get his life around after school, short cute bad guy, but he ended up in the wrong crowd and raped a mentally handicapped girl. Prison again. :-/ I really really hope he managed to get his life around after that. I never thought it was anything wrong with him, but that he was pushed to do it from his friends. Färes, I know ended up a criminal as well. Not sure if he ended up in prison or not though.... Both of them had a tough childhood.

And then there was Mårten. One of the last bullies I had after me. When he was a teen back then, he broke into buildings, stole ciggerates and alcohol and such... drank a lot, took cars for joy-rides before he had a drivers-licence... He to threw obscene names after me and threw disgusting used snuff after me to... But he, unlike the other three, turned his life around quite quickly. Only a year or so after school he went into the Swedish Army (like all boys between 19-20 years old), and then he went on a mission for the UN. Apparently that changed him, because just before I moved away from the little town, he had come back from said mission... and when we meet? He apologized to me. :-) Only one who ever did, but it was worth sooooo much. :-D

Those three up there are the ones it ended up the worst for. The other guys and girls I have seen around the little town where mom still lives work at factories or in car shops as mechanics... stuff like that. Became parents early in life... Nothing special, really. Driving around in big american cars, trying to look cool in the little town, drinking beer on the weekends... *shrug* I am beyond happy I moved away from there.

[ruchirahni.livejournal.com]

wow.. of course, you grew up in a small town: i forgot. all the kids that bullied me were swallowed up by the city, no idea what happened to them. sounds like the ones that gave you the worst of it GOT the worst of it. but, its' nice to know that some people can be reformed.. circa Draco =) (wait, did you read harry potter?)

ps. i know the mail system has really been sucking lately. i can't believe it took a month for yours to get here! i wonder if mine will ever get there :\

[kseenaa.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, I did. A really small town. Tiny even. So if my old bullies and even mates are still there? Then mom knows what's happened and what they've been up to. It is a good and bad part about growing up in a tiny town. Everyone knows everyone. Morgan (aka Mårten... I forgot his name there for a second... :-P It is really Morgan), he really surprised me, you know? I never in a million years thought he'd apologize to me. But there you go. Of course, girls bullied me to, but that was more the silent treatment. No one talked to me or acknowledged me. So it is hard to pinpoint any exakt people who did that, since pretty much all girls (except spicehobbit) did that.

Well, what did you send to me? A package? :-D Or just a card? I'll check my pile of cards and see if yours are in there! :-D

[ruchirahni.livejournal.com]

Where I went to school I always thought the girls were much crueler than the boys. They spread rumors and tried to bring you down and be your friend to your face the whole time.

It's a small package- bigger than an envelope but maybe a little smaller than the one I sent you last time. It's been like three weeks!

[kseenaa.livejournal.com]

Ah yes... Rumours about how fat and ugly and shit I was. Oh yeah. I got that to, thank you very much. But me and spicehobbit (who was bullied to) were strong together, so with her friendship I managed to survive school. :-) We meet when we were 13 and things were at the worst for at least me. :-P

And your package with those two little dolls arrived the other day! :-D SO CUTE! Thank you! Sappho made LOL! Once a femme-slasher always a femme-slasher, right? ;-D

[ruchirahni.livejournal.com]

Yayyy, I'm so glad!! Robin Hood was SO you and Sappho? No words needed. Xena season 6 speaks for itself! 'sometimes when i look at you...' they're magnets btw so you can stick them on the fridge. this way they're not the annoying knickknacks that bother me and collect dust.

- and i don't need to remind you that you are NOT fat OR ugly, do i? because.. you're not. and those girls are bitches and suck.

[kseenaa.livejournal.com]

Ha ha ha! :-D Yeah, they were really cute them dolls. :-) Robin Hood made me grin, I must say... Robin of Sherwood (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_of_Sherwood) is and will forever be my first fandom... before I even knew what that was! *lol* My first fandom-crush to... Ah, Will Scarlet... and Robin of Loxley....

Nothing is forgotten... Nothing is EVER forgotten...

*fangirls* :-)