in the context of the me too debate in 2017, the swedish newspaper "svenska dagbladet" wrote that lundgren had been proven right and that the criticism of her in the early 2000s had been discredited. in 2018, also in the context of the me too debate, lundgren and legal scholar jenny westerstrand wrote that the swedish journalistic profession bore a large part of the blame in sweden for the problems the debate had highlighted because swedish journalists had systematically attacked critical discussion of and research on men's violence against women for over 20 years.