Helle Schunesson on why Hanna Friberg’s football shirt provokes
Sweden’s humiliating loss to the Netherlands wasn’t the worst thing that happened at the World Cup this weekend.
Hanna Friberg has once again succeeded in insulting the Swedish public spirit.
But why does Sweden hate sexy girls who like to have fun?
Hanna Friberg can barely open her mouth without it leading to a storm of criticism and headlines – and she has certainly done things that deserve criticism.
Like when she said about trans people that “a cock is a guy just like a couch is a couch” or went on promotional trip to the slave state of Qatar.
But the biggest outcry was probably when she in “Skavlan and Sweden” said that she gets the ick of men with lunch boxes. According to Hanna herself, she received death threats after the program.
The reactions shocked me. A lot can be said about the Swedish resource-conscious lunchbox tradition – but isn’t it sexy?
It turns out that few things provoke as much as pretty girls behaving like pretty girls, such as loudly stating their preferences when it comes to guys.
Now Hanna has committed the next one faux pas. After campaigning (or what she herself calls manifesting) on her social media to go to the USA and attend the WC, Hanna has now crossed the Atlantic. She has been very clear about the goal of the trip: she is to have boys.
It sounds absolutely wonderful.
But her outspokenness does not go home in the cottages. And as if using the soccer world championship as a dating site wasn’t enough, she has now also committed a new crime against the Swedish public spirit:
Before the match, she tore up her Sweden shirt.
The reactions could not wait. Hanna Friberg wanted to show some breasts and all of a sudden everyone has an insanely strong relationship with the Swedish flag. It is DISRESPECTFUL, blasphemous even, to put the scissors into the sacred football jersey.
What will she do next? Bomb threat to Ikea?
Desecrate Olof Palme’s grave?
Talk to someone on the bus?
Just kidding, Hanna Friberg would of course never take the bus.
I think what really rubs off is that Hanna Friberg gets to go to the WC, without even giving the appearance of caring about the sport. All the while the real ones the football fans stay at home sulking on the sofa.
The fact that she is also sexy, has fun and openly trawls for rags doesn’t help.
In Sweden, girls are welcome to be sexy – but they are not allowed to know about it and they are certainly not allowed to enjoy it.
I think we need people like Hanna Friberg. Those who speak without thinking, provoke and do not apologize for themselves. We may not love everything they do, but they move the conversation forward and help us challenge our own thoughts and ideas.
For example, that we only allow good-looking girls as long as they don’t have too much self-confidence.
More Hanna Friberg for the people, I say. Now that it has also been shown that we suck at football, it is the perfect opportunity to bet on Sweden’s real export: pretty girls who love to party.
