Sweden: Army castrates heraldic lion

**Rebadow** · 13th-December-2007

Army castrates heraldic lion

Published: 13 Dec 07 12:34 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/9398/

Protests from female soldiers have led to the Swedish military removing the penis of a heraldic lion depicted on the Nordic Battlegroup's coat of arms.

The armed forces agreed to emasculate the lion after a group of women from the rapid reaction force lodged a complaint to the European Court of Justice, Göteborgs-Posten reports.

But although the army was eventually happy to make the changes in the interests of gender equality, the artist who designed the insignia was less than pleased.

"A heraldic lion is a powerful and stately figure with its genitalia intact and I cannot approve an edited image," Vladimir A Sagerlund from the National Archives told Göteborgs-Posten.

Sagerlund blasted the army for making changes to the coat of arms without his permission.

"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," said Sagerlund.

But the castrated lion has already won the day and is now worn on the arms of all soldiers in the battle group's Swedish battalions.

"We were given the task of making sure the willy disappeared," Christian Braunstein from the army's 'tradition commission' told Göteborgs-Posten.

"We were forced to cut the lion's willy off with the aid of a computer," he added.

The Nordic Battlegroup is one of eighteen such military groups in the European Union. Some 2,000 of its 2,400 soldiers come from Sweden, with the rest coming from Finland, Norway, Ireland and Estonia.

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Heheeeee:

Once upon a time coats of arms containing lions without genitalia were given to those who betrayed the Crown

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how apt.

how apt that they did this now - they're upholding the tradition without even realizing it.

I just have to chuckle.

**MAUS** · 13th-December-2007

"If you can't share this planet with a Martian with a penis...then hop on your broomstick and fly the Hell back to Venus"......a very wise man once said that

**Groobz** · 13th-December-2007

so a penis is against gender equality?

if the lion has no penis, that suggests its either been castrated, or may try to signify a female lion, but since its going to be referred to as a castrated male lion, it means they beleive that lacking a penis is gender equality, and what creature lacks a penis? females, no this is not for gender equality, this is whiney females getting their way once again, of course this is in the nordic countries which have long been socialized-feminist wastelands, so no surprise here.

**bola** · 13th-December-2007

Don't join the army, then you don't have to put up with this shit.

**ooftus goofus** · 13th-December-2007

Sweden is perhaps the best example of the ruin that comes from fem/state-forced equality taken to absurd extremes.Fems have screwed up everything.

**Percy** · 14th-December-2007

Protests from female soldiers

What they should have done is put'em all in their own friggin' all-female friggin' battle-group with their own friggin lioness on their friggin' flag, and tell them to frig off!

**lolintertubes** · 14th-December-2007

Quote from Percy

What they should have done is put'em all in their own friggin' all-female friggin' battle-group with their own friggin lioness on their friggin' flag, and tell them to frig off!

I second that! It really annoys me when I see stuff like this. It seems that if a female doesn't like something she can kick and scream and it will be changed or removed, but if the shoe is on the other foot we are told to grow up and be a man or stop being a pussy etc.

**themanonthestreet** · 14th-December-2007

It's all about symbolism folks.....

Removing the penis of the lion (male - note the mane) is symbolic of removing the penis' (or is it peni?) of males in society as a whole...

TMOTS

**ooftus goofus** · 14th-December-2007

True about symbolism.Cutting the dick off that friggin lion is symbolic of the fem desire to "emasculate" society as a whole,and create a world of indenticality,where there are NO characteristics left to distinguish male from female.Thats the ideological fem conception of equality,and its a stupid one and completely inconsistent with the dictates of biology.Making men and women the same has been a dismal failure,but the fems still think its progressive.Anyone read that book,"women who make the world worse" by Kate O`Beirne? Among other things,it talks about how the fems have screwed up the military.It will get you shakin your head alot.

**khankrumthebulgar** · 20th-December-2007

How utterly fitting of the Swedes. To emasculate themselves and their Manhood to satisfy some Femifascists. No wonder their birth rates are declining. And their Men the descendants of Vikings will not stand up to Moslem Thugs who rape and beat their Women. Cowards they should stop the pretense and disband their Military.

**FFFF** · 20th-December-2007

Quote from khankrumthebulgar

How utterly fitting of the Swedes. To emasculate themselves and their Manhood to satisfy some Femifascists. No wonder their birth rates are declining. And their Men the descendants of Vikings will not stand up to Moslem Thugs who rape and beat their Women. Cowards they should stop the pretense and disband their Military.

They are the descendants of the vikings that were too pussy to go rape and pillaging in foriegn lands!