#we seriously do not learn that much about many of the monarchs of sweden in school

[norsesuggestions]

please tell me about which swedish rulers I should fight, why and if I would win over them or not

because you said “ruler” and not monarch, i am going to take some liberaty and also discuss prime ministers, nobility and such like, which for the majority of swedens history often of equal influence and power than the monarch, or even during certain epochs, actually much more important to the rule of sweden than the monarchs:

Axel Oxenstierna, Lord High Chancellor of Sweden during the reign of Gustav II Adolf and Queen Christina (in office between1612–1654):

this dude was basically the actual de-facto ruler of sweden during Gustav II Adolfs wars, and during the youth of Queen Christina.

he famously given the credit for laying the foundation for the modern adminstative state appartus of sweden. among things he did, was creating the adminstrative län in sweden, a system still in use today.

was also a TOTAL DICKHEAD. during his rule, particulary the oppression of sami people increased. obssesed with starting wars. wanted to create and then uphold the swedish empire created by the conquering of Gustav II Adolf. in general a bad dude.

FIGHT HIM. if you will win? idk, but like, it your damn duty to fight axel oxenstierna if you are face to face with him.

(not saying that Queen Christina and Gustav II Adolf were blameless or something, but this dude is very much the one who held the reign for the practical politics of the swedish state during in particular the epoch of Gustav II Adolf constant warfare).

Per Albin Hansson, Swedish Prime Minister 1932–1936 and 1936–1946. leader of the socialist democratic party of sweden 1925–1946.

dude most famous for popularizing the concept of “det svenska folkhemmet”, a concept which was…. extremaly influential on modern sweden. and which i do not have space to explain here.

BUT, crucial to the ideology of folkhemmet was the the stable heterosexual couple. well amusingly so, Per Albin did actually have two seperate families, and two seperate wives, of which he never told anyone in the public eye about.

so please fight him, do it by mentioning this fact, and you will win i promise. do it!

Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden 1969–1976, 1982-1986, leader of the socialist democratic party of sweden 1969-1986.

this dude was famous for being quick-witted and have a sharp tongue in political debates. so yes fight him, to make him happy, because political discoure was his fave thing.

then hug him, and tell him from me, and a large majority of swedens population, that we miss him very much ever sense he got murdered in 1986, and that we wish he was still with us (because then he could yell at the politics of the current socialist democratic party among things)

do not fight him seriously. just play fight with him, and then give him a loving hug (also perhaps ask who murdered him, we still have no idea in sweden to this day….).

Jean Baptiste Bernadotte [royal title, rarely used today in sweden: Karl XIV Johan], King of Sweden 1818–1844

the replacement for the heir of Gustav III, of which the parliement also disliked. found in a bar by the swedish ambassador by chance according to legend. the ancestor of the current royal family of sweden.

also, forced norway in a union with sweden, which was a major dick move. fight this dude, he was a general in napeolons army, so you will most likely lose, but do it anyway.

Oscar II, King of Sweden 1872–1907and King of Norway 1872–1905

some nobody swedish king who tried to win back the power for the royalty over the parliement. pffft. a doomed project! he was alive during the rise of the working class movements in sweden, which demanded seats in the swedish parliment, and also when it became totally clear for all that Norway would not be that damn forced union that Bernadotte forced them into, anymore.

of which the different dates he ruled sweden and norway gossips about.

old-fashioned grump, fight him. you will win, just like the dissolving of the union of norway and sweden, and the march of democracy won during his lifetime. you might say, why fight with someone who is already laying down? well, he has a very punschable face.

do it!

honorable mention: different irrelavant monarchs of sweden during the 20th, 19th century, 18th century who we do not even learn the names of in school, because they were tbh mostly, or entiraly irrelevant to the actual politics of sweden:

fight them. they are laying down i know. but do it. you will win (just as the politicans of sweden won over them in life).

Gustav III, King of Sweden, 1771–1792:

tried to not be irrelavant as the majority of the 18th century swedish monarchs were. well, he was not irrelavant, but failed entiraly in bringing back the power to the monarch, because he got ya know

murdered by the parliement because of it

but, well, because he is going to get murdered, it feels like a over-kill to actually fight him. look at a play with him or something instead! he was a fan of the arts, so just trick him into believing you are totally on his side.

then join the murder conpiracy i guess *shrugs*

Karl IX, King of Sweden 1599– 1604:

this is the father of Gustav II Adolf, which is what is mostly known for today in sweden. He was one of the many sons of Gustav Vasa, who fought among eachother for the swedish throne after Gustav Vasas death.

also known for, according to legend, dying because of the pure rage of seeing the danish army in the distance (or well heart-attack brough upon by rage at seeing the DANES).

this dude is therefore clearly very ready to fight, but you should not, because you will lose. he did after all win that power-battle between the sons of Gustav Vasa and ended up on top. so, WELL, he is clearly terrifying.

avoid Karl IX at all costs.

Göran Persson, Socialist Democratic Party, Prime Minister of Sweden 1996–2006,

Carl Bild, Moderate Party, Prime Minister of Sweden 1991–1994,

Fredrik Reinfeldt, Moderate Party, Prime Minister of Sweden 2006–2014

the triangle of evil and in general horrible swedish prime ministers of my own life-time. please fight all these guys and their neo-liberal reforms of swedish politics!

FIGHT THEM! (well not with violence literally, because these guys are all still alive, and saying such things would be threath according to swedish law i think. but you know, fight them with words and politics).

(our current prime minister, the socialist-democratic Stefan Löfven is not listed because i have not yet made up my mind about him as a person. these other 3 dudes i have a personal vendetta against!!! we will see with Löfven, if he ever shows enough personlity for anyone to figure out who he is).

Final words

so that was some of them! making this kind off list is hard for sweden, we have existed as a nation for several hundreds years. when we should start count the start of sweden remain in debate, but well, often we calculate the state of sweden from the reign of Gustav Vasa, with start in1523, but ALSO, we often include medieval sweden in our calculations and and…. its complicated? yes?

my point, there are so many people to list in the category of “rulers of sweden”, so haha, this is just a selection of some of them. we are missing the majority of them on this list!  

[torianimatesba2b]

The Celluloid Closet - Watch Notes

- When you don’t see representation of yourself in films you often feel alone

- Movies ‘from the beginning relied on homosexuality as a sure fire source of humour’

- Ideas about who you are come from what you experience and we learn from movies what out means to have ‘sexuality’

- Chaplin Movie ‘Behind the Screen’ 1917

- Stereotyping - swishy mime was so ingrained in the portrayal of the ‘gay man’

- ‘The Sissy’ - The first of Hollywoods Gay ‘characters’, Made everyone feel either mor manly or more manly by occupying the space in between the two gender roles, he did not appear to have a sexuality and so he was allowed to thrive in films because he was homosexual only subliminally and yet everyone knew that they should be read as gay - some people like the idea of visibility at any cost but some people feel very strongly that it is wrong to have this type of character ‘there is no sin like being a woman’ ‘when a man dresses as aa woman everybody laughs but when a woman dresses as a man nobody laughs’

- Queen Christina - based on true monarch and lesbian of Sweden

- 1920s and 30s - film got a lot more ‘raunchy’ and so the catholic community introduced the Hayes code, which was seldom taken seriously but by 1935 the legion of decency backed by the Catholic Church and threatened boycotts forcing Hollywood to ‘play by the rules’

- Among the things restricted were: open mouthed kissing, lustful embraces, sex perversion, seduction, rape, abortion, prostitution and white slavery, nudity, obscenity and profanity

- The Hayes code did not erase homosexuality from film but it did unfortunately give them a new identity, as villains

- Rebecca 1940 - the words homosexuality/lesbianism is never explicitly mentioned however there are moments where the former housekeeper appears to be obsessed with her, particularly the scene where she opens the underwear draw

- Oriental music, perfume and other hints were used to show a characters sexuality where it couldn’t have been explicitly said

- Hitchcock’s film ‘Rope’ features two gay lovers as the villains

- Sometimes censors turned a blind eye to lesbians if they were kept ‘safely behind bars’ such as ‘Caged’ 1959, supposedly the message is ‘isn’t it terrible for a woman to go to prison’ a warning about what women could become

- In 50s America ‘seeming gay was as bad as being gay’

- Rebel without a Cause - adoration of James Dean’s character, the relationship wasn’t intended to be read in a homosexual light but the film is about intimacy and allowing med to have feelings in an era where it was looked down upon

- ‘Ben-Hur’ - the roman character is in love with Ben-Hur, it is never explicitly said but the writers have written it to be perfectly clear

- Many ‘characters can only express themselves indirectly just as we (the lgbt community) can often only express ourselves indirectly’

- “The Children’s Hour’ 1962, homosexuality was finally become more widespread on screen but only as something ‘nice people didn’t talk about’ - the two character have a very intense emotional scene where one of them cries about ruining both of their lives and feeling dirty and disgusting, the actual subject was never discussed in rehearsal but watching it you can see exactly what she is trying to express. This is a difficult moment because watching it is quite hard, the feeling of sadness that she has for herself is still mirrored in today’s society and felt by many of the LGBT community

- ‘I felt that something dreadful was going to happen to me, something I wouldn’t be able to turn back once i had actually had sex with another man and that the end of that road would be suicide, and i got that impression form the movies’

- ‘Growing up in the 60s all we had were images of unhappy, separate, suicidal gay people’

- ‘You must pay and you must suffer - if thou are gay you have to do real panacea you have to die!’

- Cabaret 1972, is amongst the first films which openly accepted homosexuality and after this things began to change much more quickly

- It was easier for Hollywood to show a block character as queer than a white persona as queer

- ‘Cruisin’ was the cause of a lot of anti-homosexuality

- ‘Making love ‘1982’ - was one of the first films to deal with the topic of homosexuality sensitively and in a non sexually explicit way, it was groundbreaking

- For women, there was a very different view of sexual scenes, generally there is am image of femininity that comes across as much less threatening, female audiences generally don’t find it ‘offensive’ sand make audiences either find it non-threatening or titillating

- Women are often not taken seriously in this kind of context, it is usually perceived as experimental or ‘a phase’