By Selwyn Duke

Truth is stranger than fiction, and it’s growing stranger by the day.  In Sweden, the Nordic Battlegroup’s coat of arms has always depicted a heraldic lion that wields a sword and, well, let’s just say, is anatomically correct.  But now that nation’s armed forces have agreed to emasculate the cat after a group of ne’er-do-well female soldiers lodged a complaint to the "European Court of Justice."  So now the lion has been neutered.

My first reaction was vintage Selwyn Duke, as I grumbled about political correctness and the pusillanimity of the Western man.  But then I realized how fitting it truly was.

While no Western country can boast of men typified by the other Duke, John Wayne, I’ve always said that Sweden’s nominally male bipeds are the most hen-pecked under the sun, bar none.  If you think I exaggerate, consider what follows.

Swedish lawmakers not too long ago proposed a "Man Tax," which would have been levied on only men for the purposes of paying the "societal cost of male violence."  I kid you not.  As an aside, I have to mention that following this logic, the jack-booted feminazis in that cold land could also propose a "Moslem Tax," since an inordinate amount of Sweden’s crime is perpetrated by their diversity-enhancing guests.  I’ll give you three guesses as to why that one wasn’t on the agenda.

It gets worse, though.  Inspired by a yearning to eliminate inequality, the feminazis in Sweden conjured up a very interesting cause.  Was it that infernal wage gap (the result of lifestyle choices) between the sexes?  How about the gap in the sciences?  How about the one in college enrollment?  Oh . . . never mind, that one favors the fairer sex.  No, they wanted to eliminate the bathroom gap.

What?  Whoa!  Where . . . ?  Whatcha’ talkin’ ’bout, Duke?  Well, these deep feelers concluded that the typical way men relieve themselves was a symbol of male dominance, so they wanted to get schoolboys to sit down while performing the act.  Again, I kid you not.  You can’t make this stuff up.

Of course, nuts like that couldn’t possibly have clout in society, right?  They must have earned a stay in a happy place for their trouble, correct?  You don’t know Sweden.

They succeeded in getting the urinals removed from one or two elementary schools and, last I heard, wanted to do the same at Stockholm University. 

Not surprisingly, this insanity is just the tip of the iceberg.  Sweden is a nation in the grip of the Femiban.

So I realized that the emasculation of the coat of arms merely reflects the reality in the land; it’s the perfect metaphor.  Swedish men have transitioned from vikings to geldings.

As for that hapless lion, its fate is a prime example of the irrationality of the feminocracy.  It had to be altered in the name of "gender equity," but where’s the logic?  It still has its mane; it’s obviously a male.  How is having a gelded male lion a more palatable symbol than an intact one?  Perhaps that’s how feminists prefer their men. 

There is at least one sane man in Sweden, however.  The artist who created the symbol, Vladimir Sagerlund, was none too pleased by the violation.  He lent the issue great perspective and I learned something I didn’t know.  He said,

"The army lacks knowledge about heraldry. Once upon a time coats of
arms containing lions without genitalia were given to those who
betrayed the Crown."

Again, how fitting.  The lion is now the perfect symbol of a nation that has betrayed itself. 

The truth is that you reap what you sow.  There have been many stories about how the rape of Swedish women by Moslems is rampant.  Not surprisingly, the foreigners have no respect for the women, as they view them to be harlots; they also have no respect for Swedish men, probably because they view them as weak. 

And how else would they view them?  Swedish men won’t even protect their women.  Instead — and this illustrates just how serious the problem is — a group of Swedish girls have invented a "reverse chastity belt" designed to frustrate the aims of rapists. 

Justice is so often poetic.  In the name of ending the abuse of women, the feminists emasculated their men, which now is allowing for greater abuse of women.

So while little Sven is taught to sit down and still, little Mohammad is taught to stand tall, to know the way of the sword, to pillage, to prevail.  When weak men falter, strong men step into the breach. 

It really is an instance of art imitating life.  An emasculated male lion, the perfect symbol of a once bold but now feminized, effete, dying civilization.