About

Pelle Billing is an M.D. and a professional teacher of Argentine tango, who writes and lectures about gender issues and men’s issues. His work represents the next step in the gender discourse, where we let go of blaming and shaming men, and realize that gender roles have been unavoidable throughout history, since it is only in a post-industrialized society that it even makes sense for men and women to broaden their roles. Another major insight is that men’s issues are just as important as women’s issues, only different.

Pelle’s core strength is his ability to explain complex gender dynamics and insights in a way which is easy to understand. By marrying these cognitive and pedagogical abilities with a focus on heart and empathy, his goal is to have men and women finally start to understand each others’ life conditions, and become partners in creativity once more. Men and women have always worked side by side in this world, and the gender war triggered by feminism is but a historical parenthesis.

Pelle uses insights from Argentine tango to give classes on leadership, followership and body awareness. Tango – with its leading and following from the body – is uniquely suited as a metaphor for gender dynamics. Regardless of whether you know the dance itself, exercices distilled from the dance can be a rich source for becoming intimate with your way of being in the world, and your way of being in relationships.

Lectures

If you want to book me for a lecture - in English or Swedish - then please write me a message. I’m based in Malmö, Sweden.

I also run a blog on gender issues in Swedish, that specifically deals with the Swedish gender discourse.

About the blog

The purpose of this blog is to publish the new ideas and ways of thinking that are needed to achieve gender liberation for everyone. In order to achieve this goal we need to realize the following:

  • Men and women have been constricted by their respective gender roles. While feminism has taught us about the limitations of being a woman, men’s authentic experience has yet to be voiced.
  • Feminism as a movement, needs to be replaced by a gender liberation movement that cares about women and men alike.
  • We need to stop blaming men for structures and gender roles that arose as a functional fit to historical circumstances, and instead get busy with creating healthier, freer and more integrated ways of being.
  • High quality science is a good thing. We are not at liberty to ignore findings about innate sex differences, simply because we also acknowledge and understand what research teaches us about cultural influences on gender roles.

This site welcomes men and women alike. All you need is a willingness to think outside the box, and an interest in exploring the future of gender dynamics.