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Colleague Eivind Helland Marienborg asked Professor Benedikte Moltumyr Høgberg if she could send him a report. Then the professor snapped.
In an exchange of private messages on Facebook Thursday, the high-profile law professor made it clear to her colleague that she is a busy woman with lots to do, who is often patient. But if there’s one thing she really can’t stand, it’s men who treat her like a secretary, she added, making it clear that it’s not a mail order company.
Marienborg, a researcher at the University of Bergen’s Faculty of Law, posted a screenshot of the conversation on her Facebook page.
Neither Høgberg nor Marienborg want to be interviewed on this matter. You can see Høgberg’s written commentary to Khrono below.
Sheds new light on the Nav scandal
The background is that parts of a hitherto secret internal investigation from 2014 became known this week. It sheds new light on the Nav scandal, which means that several thousand Social Security recipients who brought Social Security benefits abroad were mistreated by Nav.
According to VG, the report states that Norway’s practice of refusing people to take social security with them abroad was against the EEA Agreement.
But researcher Marienborg is critical of how the report has now been interpreted. He writes on Facebook that he is unable to see that it contains what it claims to contain.
Benedikte Moltumyr Høgberg of the University of Oslo is among several lawyers who worked towards the publication of the report. Eivind Helland Marienborg contacted Høgberg on Facebook and asked if she could send him the report.
“You are not faithful to me!
And the discussion continued on Marienborg’s open Facebook page, with skyrocketing temperatures. There, Høgberg accused him, among other things, of “stalking” her, which Marienborg refuted.
“You’ve been stalking me all day, so I can’t stand it anymore. So no, my life isn’t about feeding your ego and just having conversations about your inventions,” she wrote.
Marienborg asked her what she actually meant by “stalking”, apart from the private message, and Høgberg replied, among other things, that “you did everything even on my FB page”.
“You’re not fucking true! I have not encountered anything like rudeness. And we’re not even friends. I don’t care how you behave with your friends, but to think that I work for you and I have to reply and send you things at your convenience, you should only be sorry. Anyway, I’m done with you, forever,” she wrote.
Marienborg continued with the following questions:
“Ah, the one comment out of many in your comments field, which you didn’t reply to, where I asked briefly and simply if it was possible to get a copy of the report? Is that what ‘fussy’ is? ‘Ambushing’?
Several people joined the Facebook thread and the professor received a lot of criticism.
– You can’t treat people like that
“Regardless of what one might think of two comments on a status and a dm, your response is just insane. You can’t actually treat people like you’re doing here,” one wrote.
And another:
“It’s not every day you see law professors creating false narratives and kicking ass as we see here.”
However, one person took Høgberg to her defense and wrote that she too “reacted to your uproar after yesterday’s and today’s report, and fully understands that Benedikte Moltemyr Høgberg is reacting.”
— Part of a greater whole
Benedikte Moltumyr Høgberg writes in an SMS to Khrono:
“This is part of a larger set of statements, where no communication has ever occurred across university channels or arenas. It’s hard to get into this without getting personal, and I don’t want to. I therefore have no further comment.” .
The professor also got a lot of attention when she appeared in Morgenbladet in 2020 harsh criticism of the Research Council. And when he said that last year “Bad Women’s Culture” stop women in academia.
In 2018, he opened a conference with what was then called Universitas three minutes of separation from the students.
Below is the link to the post in its entirety which he gave to students in 2018 when he made it clear he wouldn’t be recording his lectures for some time to come.
