Author of that article is one sneaky bastard. You might want to check his sources before you comment.
It has been ruled in one municipality in northern Sweden that women can swim topless - as long as noone takes offence to it.
""We're used to naked people. Nobody cares," Per-Erik Ulander told local paper Dagbladet, adding that women could still be asked to cover up if other bathers take offence."
And there is no law that requires pools to allow women to bath bare breasted. The men to cover their nipples part was a comparison statement made by an organization for bare breasted swimming - with 40 members.
"The group faced a setback in November after the Swedish sexual equality ombudsman (Jämo) ruled that it was not discriminatory for women to be banned from bare-breasted bathing. Karlsson rejected the ombudsman's conclusions:
"The only sensible thing is to have the same rule for men as for women. If women can't be without a top, then men shouldn't get away with it either," she said."
http://www.thelocal.se/29338/20100930/
There was a case where a few pregnant women didn't get sick benefits despite being in their late month pregnancy's, despite...
"Among other things, the women suffered from back aches, inguinal hernias, fatigue, sleeping problems, and pelvic arthropathy, all of which diminished their capacity to perform their jobs."
Now, you can argue whether pregnant women should get sick benefits or not, but it was never stated that it was considered an illness in the article he quoted at all.
It's an incredibly small group that noone really cares about. Ask any Swede and at most the "activists" will be nothing more than hipsters.
Also, the author of the article has some half-demeaning phrases.
Not sure if light-hearted humor or a sarcastic remark.
Why not? He doesn't motivate why it has to be like that.
Aaaaand same here. He doesn't explain why he thinks that it's harming society.
Not to mention that while the rape statistics are unfortunate, he doesn't link any source to the domestic violence statistics.
This guy should stick to writing about the financial market.