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'Man-free' music festival found guilty of discrimination
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Rob Woodward
Jan 11, 2019, 9:18:10 PM1/11/19
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A “man-free” music festival in Sweden has been found guilty of
discrimination.
Statement, a feminist festival hosted in Gothenburg in August, is the
world’s first major music festival for women, non-binary and
transgender people.
Although the festival did not actually stop cis-men from purchasing
tickets and entering the festival, describing it as “man-free” put it
in violation of anti-discrimination legislation, according to Sweden’s
Discrimination Ombudsman (DO).
All of the artists booked for the festival were “cis-men free,” and
men accompanying the artists were kept in a “man-pen” backstage.
A cis-man is someone who was assigned male at birth and has remained
male.
A transgender or non-binary person is someone whose gender does not
conform to the gender they were assigned at birth.
DO press officer Clas Lundstedt said in a statement: “It is important
to point out what an infringement is. These are the statements made
before the festival, what they wrote on their website.
“Still, we haven’t been able to prove that someone would have been
discriminated against in connection with the implementation or that
someone would have been rejected.”
Lundstedt has also said the organizers will not be punished, as no one
is believed to have been directly harmed as a result of the “man-free”
marketing.
The event was organized by Swedish comedian Emma Knyckare after she
found out a devastating number of sexual offenses had been reported at
Sweden’s biggest music festival Bravella.
No sexual offenses were reported at Statement festival.
Lundstedt added: “Clearly, we believe that sexual abuse, especially at
festivals, is a serious problem. So we are looking forward to trying
to correct this.”
“However, it shouldn’t happen in a way that violates the law, which
their statements in the media and their website do.”
Statement wrote in a post on Facebook: “It’s sad that what 5,000
women, non-binaries and transgender experienced as a life-changing
festival, made a few cis-men lose it completely.
“The success of the Statement festival shows that is exactly what we
need and the DO’s verdict doesn’t change this fact.”
“Otherwise, we have no comments. We are busy changing the world.”
https://nypost.com/2018/12/19/man-free-music-festival-found-guilty-of-discrimination/
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discrimination.
Statement, a feminist festival hosted in Gothenburg in August, is the
world’s first major music festival for women, non-binary and
transgender people.
Although the festival did not actually stop cis-men from purchasing
tickets and entering the festival, describing it as “man-free” put it
in violation of anti-discrimination legislation, according to Sweden’s
Discrimination Ombudsman (DO).
All of the artists booked for the festival were “cis-men free,” and
men accompanying the artists were kept in a “man-pen” backstage.
A cis-man is someone who was assigned male at birth and has remained
male.
A transgender or non-binary person is someone whose gender does not
conform to the gender they were assigned at birth.
DO press officer Clas Lundstedt said in a statement: “It is important
to point out what an infringement is. These are the statements made
before the festival, what they wrote on their website.
“Still, we haven’t been able to prove that someone would have been
discriminated against in connection with the implementation or that
someone would have been rejected.”
Lundstedt has also said the organizers will not be punished, as no one
is believed to have been directly harmed as a result of the “man-free”
marketing.
The event was organized by Swedish comedian Emma Knyckare after she
found out a devastating number of sexual offenses had been reported at
Sweden’s biggest music festival Bravella.
No sexual offenses were reported at Statement festival.
Lundstedt added: “Clearly, we believe that sexual abuse, especially at
festivals, is a serious problem. So we are looking forward to trying
to correct this.”
“However, it shouldn’t happen in a way that violates the law, which
their statements in the media and their website do.”
Statement wrote in a post on Facebook: “It’s sad that what 5,000
women, non-binaries and transgender experienced as a life-changing
festival, made a few cis-men lose it completely.
“The success of the Statement festival shows that is exactly what we
need and the DO’s verdict doesn’t change this fact.”
“Otherwise, we have no comments. We are busy changing the world.”
https://nypost.com/2018/12/19/man-free-music-festival-found-guilty-of-discrimination/
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