A revolta feminina na Islândia

Na Islândia as mulheres estão a acusar os homens pela crise financeira que colocou o país na banca rota. Procuram agora por uma solução feminina para colocar o país de pé. E a primeira-ministra interina, Johanna Sigurdardottir, tem boas possibilidades de ganhar as próximas eleições. Escreve a Der Spiegle:

[...] As one of the main culprits, central bank governor David Oddson, who had previously led the country for 13 years as Iceland’s longest-serving prime minister — in the end in an almost autocratic manner — was forced to step down after weeks of public protests. Prime Minister Geir Haarde of the conservative Independent Party also had to go. Bank managers and speculators — almost exclusively men — have also been pilloried in what amounts to the collapse of an entire profession.

«The crisis is man-made,» claims banker Halla, 40, who like all Icelanders, is only addressed by her first name. «It’s always the same guys,» she says. «Ninety-nine percent went to the same school, they drive the same cars, they wear the same suits and they have the same attitudes. They got us into this situation — and they had a lot of fun doing it,» she says. Halla criticizes a system that focuses «aggressively and indiscriminately» on the short-term maximization of profits, without any regard for losses, that is oriented on short-lived market prices and lucrative bonus payments. «It’s typical male behavior,» says Halla, who compares it to a «penis competition» — who has the biggest?

Confesso que me faltam argumentos para contrariar esta teoria; talvez seja isso mesmo…