Published 10 November 2022 at 14.52
Media. A comic strip in the local newspaper Dagens Vimmerby, which jokes about SD's dominant role in the formation of the new government, is now causing the Moderates to react.
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Member of Parliament Marie Nicholson (M) has written a letter to the newspaper's editors in which she urges the newspaper to unpublish the series from the internet. This is because of how the KD leader Ebba Busch is portrayed in the comic strip.
“The creator has chosen to portray a female party leader with a raff set and an anal plug. I have now sat and read this strip several times and can don't see how sexualizing and sexually degrading a female power holder in any way reinforces the message. The creator's point could have been made just as well if she, like her male colleagues, had been allowed to keep her clothes on,” writes the M politician.
The series has four frames, all of which involve two skinheads humiliating and dominating Ebba Busch and Ulf Kristersson. The liberal Johan Pehrson, on the other hand, lies defeated on the ground.
Dagens Vimmerby replies that it is surprised by the demand for censorship from the government party, and announces that it will keep the drawing.
“Marie Nicholson's government has promised a new direction for Sweden. We can hope that it does not apply to either the view on freedom of expression or politicians' distance from the work of the media,” writes responsible publisher Jakob Karlsson in his response.