In today’s Swedish edition of “Modern Feminism is Awful”:
A professor in Sweden who dared speak about the biological differences between men and women says he’s now being investigated by his university.
Germund Hesslow, a professor of neurophysiology at Lund University, is speaking out about how his employer has launched a “full investigation” into his remarks about the biological realities of gender.
According to the Sweden-based Academic Rights Watch, Hesslow has taught a course for years on “Heritage and Environment” in the Lund University medical program. In that course, he has addressed such topics as biological gender differences.
The watchdog organization reports that Hesslow would sometimes be questioned by students who don’t like that his teaching is not based on “the gender scientific approach adopted in politics.”
Hesslow maintains that gender is not entirely socially constructed because empirical research has found that there are statistical gender differences in behavior that are biologically based.
Hesslow told ARW, which was founded to monitor “attempts to restrict the fundamental rights of teachers and researchers,” that he was asked by school administrators this month to apologize for his remarks on gender and LGBT people that drew the ire of feminist students who complained.
Hesslow fears that there are “forces in leadership” who seek to hire another teacher to teach the course that he has developed over the years. . . .
The Swedish Feminist Oppression Olympics
According to ARW, Hesslow’s troubles began after one of his [fully-indoctrinated] students sent a [terrifying, almost Orwellian] email about him to another teacher at the university.
I am writing about Germund Hesslow’s lecture on heritage and the environment focusing on biological differences between men and women. I have understood that previous students repeatedly complained to the lecture. Partly because it embodies Hesslow’s own personal anti-Seminars agenda, and that neither biological differences between men and women nor genetic theory belong to his area of ??expertise.
Why cannot we get a lecturer with the right skills on the subject instead? And, for example, could lecture about biological differences that have clinical significance? Or instead of a lecturer claiming that women are ‘sexually cautious’ because of the biology, they should be able to illustrate how women for centuries have been genital mutilation, forced sterilized, lobotomerate and forced labor in the name of medical science.
I think that, as a woman, it is incredibly diminishing that a lecturer does not feel [the] social structures of oppressed women [that] made us modulate our behaviors for our own safety. “How does this kind of lecture go with the gender perspective the education should have?
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The student’s concerns eventually made it to Christer Larsson, the chair of the Lund Medical Education Program Board. Hesslow was reportedly called to a meeting on Sept. 3 with administrators.
Hesslow was told to retract two particular statements by submitting in writing that those statements were “unfortunately formulated.” One of the statements is “gay women have a male sexual orientation.” The other: “Whether it’s a sexual orientation is a definition question.”
Hesslow, however, has refused to apologize.
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