Under liberalism, the utterly amazing is utterly predictable by Lawrence Auster

One of the paradoxes of liberal society is that the things about it that are beyond satire--indeed, the things about it that are almost beyond one's ability to comment on them at all--are also its most logical and consistent expressions. So it is in the present case. As I read the below article, from The Local: Sweden's News in English, I'm rendered speechless; no analysis, no quips, come to me. So I will simply quote the piece in its entirety:

Army castrates heraldic lion

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, Goteborgs-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.

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