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Now the second wave is here, but no, this is not a chronicle of the coronavirus.
It is true that the number of infections in Denmark has risen considerably in recent weeks, and if Copenhagen had been abroad, the Danish government would have advised against traveling here. New restrictions have been introduced and I wouldn’t be surprised if more are on the way.
But no, this is not a chronicle of the crown.
Because it is a second metoo wave that now, at least, is looming on the horizon.
Or, others and others by the way. It is a question of assessing whether metoo has actually been to Denmark. Because while Sweden was hit by a tsunami in the fall of 2017, there was mainly a small wave here on the other side of the Sound.
Of course, there were calls among cultural workers, and yes, the behavior of Zentropa producer Peter ”Ålen” Aalbæk Jensen was much debated. There has never been so much in the country where feminism is sometimes considered an insult.
Instead, metoo in Denmark became primarily a debate on debate. Or rather a debate on why the debate did not take place, in turn a debate where the majority of people had an opinion.
But a few weeks ago, the first earthquake was recorded when the famous presenter Sofie linde During a gala of humor he gave an attentive speech. A speech in which, among other things, she recounted an episode when she was a new hire at Danmarks Radio when a high-ranking person in the television industry at a Christmas party demanded sexual services. If she didn’t, he threatened to ruin her career, Sofie Linde said.
More than 1600 women in the danish media industry, ny has signed a letter of support to sofie linde. Some of them come with their own stories about sexual harassment, among other things, they tell other things about how “screwed” you would be to get a chance to advance on TV2.
But it is not in the duck pond of the media industry that has now begun to erupt, if not a storm, at least a gale. There have also been testimonies of harassment in the Danish Folketing and the Presidium of the Folketing will now address the issue. Former prime minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt he has testified about sexual harassment both within the Social Democratic Party and within the International Committee of the Red Cross, where he was a world leader.
The Danish Minister for Gender Equality Mogens jensen has invited the women who signed the convocation and also the Prime Minister to a meeting, Mette Frederiksen, has acted.
On social media, she writes that she supports the appeal and that sexual harassment is an expression of abuse of power and that it is something that needs to be resolved.
Perhaps metoo has now reached the Danish shores too, three years after the wave hit Sweden.
