Oricum, Suedia nu a remarcat diferenta ... si nici Katty

Mos Grigore raporteaza (destul de alarmat):

Military lion shorn of his equipment after women troops protest

The proud motto of northern Europe’s crack rapid-reaction force is
ad omnia paratus (i.e. Prepared for everything, everywhere).

But the heraldic lion above the Latin tag now sends a less plucky message – he has just been digitally emasculated and, though technically still a lion rampant, he does not seem to be ready for anything, anywhere.

The change was implemented after a group of women Swedish soldiers protested that they could not identify with such an ostentatiously male lion on their army crest. A complaint of sex discrimination was then lodged with the European Court of Justice.

“We were forced to cut the lion’s willy off with the aid of a computer,” Christian Braunstein, from the Tradition Commission of the Swedish Army, said.

For sceptics who already consider the Nordic Battlegroup to be something of an oxymoron – it is led by the Swedes, who were last in battle in 1809 – the operation on the lion is not an auspicious omen.

"A castrated lion – the perfect symbol for European defence policy,”

an American military blogger sneered.(more details ...)

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Insa eu, Seherezada cea plina de bunatate, mi-am zis ca trebuie sa existe si solutii mai putin barbare atit pentru aplanarea conflictului, cit si pentru reflectarea realitatii. Si dupa o profunda cugetare, iata ca am gasit-O ...

Nici un (ouch !)