Blågg.no / Blagg.no

I have read so much about feminism the last years, and so little about masculinism that it is not even a word according to my dictionary.

I might piss off some people writing about this, but whatever. I believe that any discussion where only one party is represented gets a little loop sided.

In Norway today I think that we have equal rights, I would even go further and say that wherever one sex has an advantage from rules it is nearly always women. I have gone to a job interview where they admitted that I was clearly better qualified, but they preferred a woman. And the difference in qualification wasn’t just a bit, the job was to run a Facebook page, I have one with 150.000 fans, the one that got the job had no experience.

So, why do men earn more than woman on average? It is more than anything else a question about priorities. Men want to earn a lot, a man that earns a lot is seen as an alpha male, can have a fancy sports car, buy drinks for everyone and get more women. Guys work on average 6,5 hours more per week according to SSB, but that doesn’t count everyone that have their own firms or high income jobs where you don’t add up the hours in the same way. A man will often choose a profession based on where he can earn more money.

I think many women would be surprised about how much of many mens life decisions are based on his sex drive. Why do you think so many men want to be rock stars, powerful leaders, rich businessmen and so on? I think that if male nurses got the same attention as a rock star, an athlete or a successful business man you would see a hugh que of men wanting to be nurses.

If you want to earn more, work hard. If you complain about men earning more than women, find a job that pay you more and don’t expect a man to pay for you because then he has to earn more than you. If you want men to be softer and more sensitive, fuck a sensitive guy

I know there are other areas as well, but those are discussed over a million pages before, I just wanted to give a masculin view on the discussion and what I learned growing up is, work hard, don’t cry and you get what you deserve.

I love travelling to warmer countries in the winter. My dream is to buy a lagoon 380 and sail around in the Carribean most of the winter. Luckily the appartment prices in Norway has increased so much the last 10 years that I can actually afford one. DraculaClothing does not give me that sort of money for now I have invested more than I have withdrawn from DraculaClothing. Just building up stock on all the clothing we have had in the store until now would cost 300k- 400k euros:P We sell a lot, but at very low margins.

Here is a video of the Lagoon 380, it seems so amazing. 12 people can eat there at the same time, and it has 3 double beds. It sails up to 20 kn (normal sailing boats, sail up to 5 kn) and it doesn’t have a deep keel, so you can sail where not many other boats can.

Have started playing Magic The Gathering again. I used to play on the pro tour, and it took up a big portion of my life for two years. I loved travelling around the world playing cards and meeting the same players all over the world.

My first Pro Tour was Pro tour New Orleans, I had started playing 5 months earlier and the pro tour was in the extended format, which ment I had to go through 10.000 new cards. I remember I won my first 6 matches and was number 3 on the overall standings. Didn’t go that well after that, met a lot of french guys that I had playtested with and they had prepared too well for my deck, but it was an amazing experience. It was before Cathrina and I remember New Orleans had some great goth shops.

My second Pro tour was in Osaka, I was so jetlagged that I barely knew what I was doing, but we went to Tokyo and I loved the Harajuku district. Can’t complain about a free trip to Japan.

My third Pro tour Was the world Championships in San Fransisco. I had finished second in the Norwegian championships and on the world championships they even give you 1000 dollars in pocket money just to participate plus free plane tickets.

My fourth was my favourite. Philadelphia, not beacause of the city, but I ended up in 11th place and won a lot of money. I should have gotten to the quarter final, but did a small mistake in tha last match, so I ended up 13-3 instead of 14-2.

My last pro tour was in London during the subway terror. We met people that had just witnessed the bombing and where totally shell shocked.

Every time I start playing again I win so much. I haven’t lost the last 6 matches and just lost 2 the last 18 matches I have played. I didn’t know how much I have missed playing. It clears up my head to be so focused on something I like, and I feel like I exercise my brain;)

Really looking forward to Wave Gotik treffen in the end of the month and meeting La Carmina there and in Prague. I think it is so funny that she made a program about the Norwegian prince Ari Behn in Japan;)

Also working hard to fill up the store with clothing. We started producing in december an order we still haven’t got, so now we are moving some of the production to a new factory that seems amazing.