Sexual division of labor in Muslim countries is IKEA's responsibility...

...of course. Reuters has the story:

Norway's prime minister says company should alter brochures that show only men assembling furniture.

OSLO, Norway (Reuters) - Swedish home furnishings giant IKEA is guilty of sex discrimination by showing only men putting together furniture in its instruction manuals, Norway's prime minister says.

IKEA, which has more than 200 stores in 32 nations, fears it might offend Muslims by depicting women assembling everything from cupboards to beds. Its manuals show only men or cartoon figures whose sex is unclear.

"This isn't good enough," Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik was quoted Thursday as telling the daily Verdens Gang. "It's important to promote attitudes for sexual equality, not least in Muslim nations."

"They should change this," he said. "There's no justification for it."...

"Both men and women are featured in our product assembly instructions," the (IKEA) spokeswoman told CNN/Money. "We were sorry to see this report."

I bet they were. People are actually paid to spout this stuff? And make it into law.

While I was in Oshkosh for the decoy show this weekend I noticed that the housekeeper who cleaned our room was a guy, probably in his early thirties, and not obviously an immigrant. I don't know what the national distribution curve is for hotel housekeepers who are locally born caucasian dudes, but from what I have observed they are distinctly a minority. In fact, this was the first such I have noticed.

I thought about that rather briefly (even I have better things to do) and suddenly a monstrous fantasy arose: the Federales have been paying ppl to go from hotel to hotel, demanding as a matter of law that local white guys be represented in the housekeeping work force in proportions equal to their presence in the community.

Extrapolate that a while...the NBA...elite California universities...inner city sexual service providers' agents...the American Indian Movement...the NAACP....the KKK...NOW...