Apparently, in a move to draw attention away from the movements of his willy, Assange has discovered that the cause of his troubles are not the dark forces of the CIA, but a fundamentalist movement:
Mr Assange regards himself as a victim of radicalism. “Sweden is the Saudi Arabia of feminism,” he said. “I fell into a hornets’ nest of revolutionary feminism.”
When in a hole.. etc.
Alan A adds
Last week, I mentioned these two pieces in the Village Voice, which looked at Assange’s online dating profiles on OK Cupid and Adult Friend Finder.
Apart from scoring ” 87% slut, 87% dominating”, Assange apparently scored 39% in the ‘Autism’ test. This is likely to be the popular Baron Cohen test, which most of us have taken (I scored 7%). 32% and above indicates autism.
Frankly, who knows how much these short tests tell you. However, I do have friends who have taken them, and have scored 39% (both are readers of this blog, so I won’t mention them). They’re both very clever and lovely people, but they do have difficulty working out what other people are thinking, and what they really want. One of them is an electronics genius – he is very good at mechanical systems.
There’s a limit to what one can extrapolate from a single online test. However, I do wonder if Assange isn’t a high functioning Aspergers kind of guy, who is likely to be most happy when fiddling with large complex systems and making them perfect (e.g. by disclosing the diplomatic secrets of liberal democracies). Similarly, it wouldn’t be completely surprising to find that a person with Aspergers had some difficulty in working out what a woman in bed with him expected him to do, and not to do.
Alec adds:
I have not read Steig Larsson’s novels of when Pippi Longstocking went bad, so I cannot comment on these laws. I do know,however, that Larsson knew a thing or two about the Swedish neo-Nazi scene and could recognize a racist nutjob a mile off.
