And that is completely understandable. Matilda Djerf’s leadership seems to be under all criticism. What you hear will make anyone roll their eyes. Cleaning a toilet as punishment? Yelling, bullying, taunting, a staff member who is terrified? I can’t stop reading and would never have wanted to set foot in her workplace. And of course it can withstand criticism as well as demands for correction and improvement. Aftonbladet’s review is thus both important and interesting. How workers are treated by their powerful bosses is always something that should be scrutinized. If you are in a managerial position and are also a public face, you have a responsibility, the gods should know that.
But I wonder where the men are in this context? I can’t remember reading similar texts about male managers. No, it’s always the female leads who are put on the dissecting table. Matilda Djerf’s boyfriend Rasmus Johansson, CEO and board member, has of course not had a taste of the ladle.
It was the same thing the other week when Johannes Klenell in Arbetet 9/12 criticized Amanda Schulman for writing for Aftonbladet at the same time as she sells things (her leadership at her old PR agency Perfect Day has also been publicly scrutinized by the media). In any case, Klenell went through the motions. That she, who sells things, gets to be a culture writer at Aftonbladet! Yuk!
The only problem is, regardless of whether Klenell is right or wrong about the matter – that he didn’t go to the roof the forty-one times that Amanda Schulman’s influencer did the same thing. That Alex Schulman sells vacuum cleaners, weight blankets and knife sharpeners on Instagram and at the same time writes for DN, it works for Klenell. How nice for them, for the boys.
But that’s how it always is, women under scrutiny while male managers can laugh all the way to the bank.
Or the reality is different. Maybe the men are simply perfect leaders? Maybe I missed something? After all, they are an imminent majority. Could it be that they have an inherent quality that explains their rise to power? The young startup guys who are as old as Djerf, twenty-thirty-year-olds who launched an app for household services, a white snus, an energy drink? Maybe they are all such great, responsive, stable managers who meet their employees with respect and turn to HR and the union when there are problems, that there is nothing to look at?
No, until someone examines male managers according to the same assessment template, all I see is a rant where you want to pull down the pants of successful women. A will so strong, where you were so bothered by Matilda Djerf’s perfect curls, that you forgot that her boyfriend is the CEO and also bears a responsibility. Or where you think it’s perfectly fine for Alex Schulman to do something, but not when his wife does the same thing.
But that’s how misogyny works. Congratulations to all guys! You will always get away.
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