Sorry that it took me so long
this time, but here it is:
Government
Feminists are trying to undermine the right to vote. Politicians and
leading media are calling for a change in the electoral laws. Lawyer Silke
Laskowski, "the mastermind of various legislative initiatives for equal
participation of women in the electoral law", claims that one must
"first make sure that women have the same chances as men to be
nominated", because the possibility to get the seats by their own efforts
"presupposes that all women are willing to enter these male
structures". The parties have the obligation to ensure equal participation,
she says, "and ideally they would then find enough women. (...) But should
there really be too few, yes, then the parties must pull their socks up and
look for and find women".
The German Women's Council
launches a petition for a parity law based on the French model (proportional
candidate lists plus quota regulation for direct elections) and calls on female
parliamentarians not to agree to any electoral law reform without parity. An
alliance of women from nearly all parties discusses how the proportion of women
in parliaments can be increased. Justice Minister Katarina Barley signals
support. The German Association of Women
Lawyers, which is planning a strategy to ensure that "parity laws do
not fail before the constitutional courts", is proposing changes to party
laws and party financing, for example by giving more money to those parties
that have a particularly large number of women.
Meanwhile, Brandenburg creates precedents. According to a draft by Silke
Laskowski, the government of Brandenburg decides on an amendment to the
electoral law, coming into force on 30 June 2020, obliging parties to put equal
numbers of men and women on election lists. There will be exceptions for
parties such as the Women's Party.
Thuringia is the second German state to follow suit, passing a law
requiring parties to alternate between men and women on their lists for state
elections. The Greens in Bavaria are
even more radical and demand that voters have to choose one woman and one man
per constituency. A proposal by the Left Wing
Party for a new parity law is meeting with resistance from the Greens, whose proportion of women is
higher than the proposal provides for. "We must be able to keep this
quota". It would be absurd if the Greens
were forced to reduce the proportion of women to 50%.
The Women's Union demands the
binding equal allocation of list places in the Conservative Party (CDU): "Men, not women, often run for
election in the constituencies. This is also due to the fact that women more
often than men decide not to enter into the tough debate about a
constituency".
Following the elections in Saxony and Brandenburg, which were successful
for the Right Wing Party (AfD),
commentators are propagating the idea of depriving men of the right to vote, or
are even rambling: "The male ego rests on the pillars of possession,
exploitation of land and people and the appropriation of female
sexuality".
Inspectors are horrified to discover what damage Ursula von der Leyen
has caused to the Ministry of Defence:
Violations of public procurement law, protectionism, contracts prohibiting the German Armed Forces (Bundeswehr) from
repairing weapons, and expenditure of 155 million Euros in the first six months
for external consultancy, almost as much as all the other 13 ministries put
together. A senior official is trying to remove files with doctored consultant
accounts, other documents are being blackened.
Von der Leyen escapes the appointed Committee
of Inquiry by having herself nominated as a possible EU Commission head.
Political opponents who circulate her sin register are put under pressure and
row back. Her candidacy speech in the European
Parliament is full of feminist slogans. On 16 July, von der Leyen is
narrowly confirmed.
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer succeeds Ursula von der Leyen as Minister of Defence. While the USA and
Russia have largely given up disarmament control, all 9 nuclear powers are
expanding their arsenals and there is all kinds of cause for concern, feminist
politicians are as usual only revolving around themselves at the Munich Security Conference: "If
only men develop algorithms, how are they supposed to depict a world that also
works for women".
At their party conference, the Greens
decide that men no longer have a say in whether a debate may be continued if no
woman speaks up. Furthermore, women may only be represented by female substitute
delegates, even if there are not enough women available.
International Women's Day on 8 March becomes a new public holiday in
Berlin.
Media, Censorship &
Manipulation
According to various surveys, many people in Germany no longer feel free
to publicly express their own opinion. A journalist of the newspaper Zeit interprets it like this:
"People are speaking more sensitively". The assertion that no one is
prevented from expressing his or her opinion, as Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier claims, misses the point
when the price is driven up by insults, threats of violence and defamation at
the workplace. Especially at universities, the call for regulations, bans and
language rules is unmistakable. In politics and the media, it is now
fashionable to sell contempt for democratic processes as a defence of true
democracy. Members of the German
Association of Judges visit the Federal
Constitutional Court and exchange views on "the limits of free speech,
especially regarding the protection of state officials".
The elites' fear of the people goes so far that security precautions at
the Bundestag are to be increased by
safety fences and a 10-metre wide ditch.
The Ministry of the Interior
wants to force messenger providers to make encrypted communication readable. The
Ministers of Justice want to weaken
the security of the mobile phone standard 5G in order to allow investigators to
access it. Horst Seehofer, Federal
Minister of the Interior, presents a draft bill according to which suspects
can be forced by coercive detention to give out passwords for online services.
Katarina Barley's successor, Minister
of Justice Christine Lambrecht, presents a legislative package against hate
crime, according to which authorities will be able to require internet services
to hand over their customers' passwords without a court order. She also wants
to create 400 new positions in the Federal
Criminal Police Office (BKA) to enforce the Network Enforcement Act.
In Baden-Wuerttemberg the police law is tightened. The Office for the Protection of the
Constitution of Saxony-Anhalt will be allowed to hack computers and
smartphones.
Again and again, selected journalists are invited to secret meetings at
the Chancellery. After the Administrative
Court of Berlin decided that "dates, topics, participants and locations"
must be made public, the Chancellor's
Office complained that the government must retain the possibility of
examining, in camera, "to what extent certain political positions can be
communicated through the media".
The Public Broadcasting
Corporation of the ARD reacted to the massive loss of confidence by
commissioning an expert report in 2017 that is now published and recommends framing,
i.e. propagandistic language manipulation. Ideological framing of terms is intended
to steer social discussions, for example on increasing contributions, in the
desired direction ("If you want to get your fellow citizens to understand
the added value of the ARD (...), then your communication must always take the
form of moral arguments"). Demands for a reduction of financial resources
are described as outrageous, as a process which is "in reality a demand
for less democracy". Not only are tricks and emotions being propagated
instead of facts and objectivity, but there is also massive agitation against competitors
(private broadcasting corporations).
The announcement of the report triggers a wave of criticism. ARD Secretary General Susanne Pfab appeases:
This is just a discussion topic, a food for thought. Creator of the report and accompanying
workshops (cost: 120,000 Euros) is feminist Elisabeth Wehling, who runs a Berkeley International Framing Institute,
which suggests a non-existent connection to the US university of the same name
and only seems to exist on paper. Funded by George Soros, the Bertelsmann-, Heinrich-Böll- and Friedrich-Ebert-Foundations,
among others.
A UN study, which speaks of 464,000 people who became victims of
homicides worldwide in 2017, over 80 percent of whom were men, is worked up by
broadcasting company Deutschlandfunk
like this: "More than 87,000 women and girls are victims of murder and
manslaughter".
At the University of Cologne, a lecturer is trying to force students to
speak gendered language, and in doing so she makes assertions such as:
"Universities are not a place of free speech".
The Amadeu Antonio Foundation,
which together with the Federal Agency
for Civic Education acts unilaterally against political extremism and plays
down left-wing dictatorships, is attempting in cooperation with the Federal Congress of Municipal Women's
Offices to defame criticism of gender ideology under the guise of fighting
right-wing extremism ("Strategies against Equality. How Right-Wing
Populists Act").
Blogger Julia Probst advocates using cameras and lip readers to monitor
people in football stadiums.
Work, Money & Health
On 1 January 2020, the new Anti-Discrimination
Law of Berlin will come into force, which abolishes the presumption of
innocence by reversing the burden of proof, legalises unequal treatment
"if it serves the common good", and allows women's lobbies to have a
say in determining what constitutes discrimination, because it is
"irrefutably suspected" that such anti-discrimination associations,
which are supported by state funds, "provide a guarantee for the proper
fulfilment of tasks".
On Equal Pay Day, the Berlin
district of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf calls on the business community in the
district to grant women a "21 percent discount on a product or
service".
On International Women's Day,
Berlin's public transport operators are offering a ticket for women that is 21
percent cheaper. Men who get such a ticket are considered fare dodgers. There is
also a vending machine that issues annual and monthly tickets for women at a
reduced price. A camera scans the customer's face and men receive an error
message. The Anti-Discrimination Office
dismisses complaints with reference to an alleged "factual inequality"
of women.
News from gender pricing: The regular VAT rate (19 per cent) on tampons
is being scandalised as a "luxury tax" which discriminates against
women. Several leading media are eager to take up the topic. An online petition
is signed by almost 200,000 people and ensures that the German government
reduces the VAT on hygiene products for women to 7 percent.
The German Institute for Economic
Research (DIW) publishes a household study which allegedly states that
women and men work approximately the same amount during the week, while
household work on Sundays is largely be done by women. In order to achieve this
statement, facts were manipulated in such a way that it was not men's weekly
overtime that was taken as the basis, but only a single day of the week.
Sexuality & Violence
The Federal Ministry for Women's
Affairs is launching a 120 million Euro investment programme which will
finance the expansion, conversion and new construction of women's shelters and
counselling centres over the next 4 years.
In Halle (Saale) a right-wing extremist attacks a synagogue. Two
political scientists talk about it: "This is the basic structure of a
patriarchal society. (...) On the one hand there is a deeply rooted hatred of
women and hatred of queer people. In the conspiracy ideological narratives this
then comes together with racism and anti-Semitism". "Basically
feminism is also a good project for men. Then they don't have to be assholes
anymore, but can become nice, solidary people".
A Feminist Autonomous Cell
proclaims its intention to fight "against the knots of the capitalist-patriarchal
machinery", carries out an arson attack on a city mission in Tübingen and encourages
other people to do the same: "We would welcome further actions against antifeminist
institutions and participants. Because these exist everywhere – organize gangs –
flatten them".
Family, Fathers & Children
On 18 March, a hearing of the Legal
Committee of the Bundestag on the Law
of Ancestry takes place. While lobby representatives of women's
associations and reproductive medicine are represented, fathers' associations
are refused to participate and, in addition, the public is left out in the
cold, with the government coalition parties preventing the hearing from being
broadcast via Bundestag TV, which is
otherwise customary. The hearing makes the double standards of the prevailing
state feminism visible: motherhood is defined biologically, fatherhood, on the
other hand, by means of the presumption of marriage or the marital status; women,
in contrast to men, cannot be expected to provide information about "intimate
multiple sexual intercourse"; and the term "father" is to be
largely replaced by "2nd parent" or "co-mother".
All this is part of the attempt to destroy the family as a bulwark
against state indoctrination. The "parentless society" that would
establish "pregnancy justice" is being propagated in the newspaper Zeit. Antje Schrupp ("A woman
should not need a man to bear a child") defames fathers in the magazine Spiegel as "sperminators" and speaks
out "against the fact that pure spermination already constitutes paternity
rights".
On request, Katarina Barley refuses to name the experts in the Family Policy Working Groups of the Ministry of Justice and charges 30 Euros
for this failure to provide information. She responds to a complaint about this
by sending an enforcement notice.
On 13 February, the Bundestag's
Legal Committee deals with the proposal of
the Free Democratic Party (classical
liberal) to introduce joint custody as a guiding model. As usual, fathers'
associations are not invited, while mothers' lobbyists are allowed to express
their views. This hearing is also not broadcast via Bundestag TV. Some leading media are already making a mood against
the proposal in advance by making the polemic of the mothers' lobbyists their
own. Their hypocritical argument that the government does not want to impose a
model on parents ignores the fact that this is exactly what is happening at present:
courts are forcing a single mother / father family as guiding model, which is always
enforced against one parent and usually to the detriment of the children, often
without even hearing the father. Unsurprisingly, in the Bundestag debate on 15 March the motion is rejected by all other
parties.
After three years of deliberations, the Working Group on Custody of the Ministry
of Justice merely presents a thesis paper which in principle grants both
parents custody of their children after a divorce, and is apparently playing
for time, especially since neither joint custody as a guiding model nor
mandatory mediation is proposed. But even that is unbearable for women's
lobbies such as the German Women Lawyers'
Association and the Mothers'
Initiative MIA. According to MIA, this would "completely undermine the
protection of mothers in or after violent relationships" – fathers who are
forced to leave their children to violent mothers do not appear in the world
view of these feminists. Particularly perfidious is the often used trick of
turning the anti-male realities against men, for example by pretending that the
situation in which the vast majority of divorcees are forced to live corresponds
to the wish of those affected, and that the campaigns of lobby organisations
are proof of the population's unwillingness to change.
In September, the majority of representatives in the Committee on Legal Affairs reject the
introduction of joint custody as guiding model, thereby ignoring Council of Europe Resolution 2079, the
positive experience with this model in other countries and the wishes of the
majority of the population in Germany.
Gender, Diversity &
Misandry
In 2017, gender studies were funded by the German government with 16.8
million Euros, and in 2018 with 19.5 million Euros. In addition, there is the Women Professorship Programme, which has
already funded over 500 gender professorships and is now entering the third
phase (until 2022) "following a positive evaluation of the 2nd programme
phase", for which 200 million Euros have been earmarked. The government
coalition parties consider gender studies to be useful because they provide
"important scientific findings on causes and mechanisms which impede
equality". The Greens call on
the government to expand the promotion of gender research. This is not only taking
place in Germany: Worldwide, the German government is funding gender projects in
the millions, for example to "promote gender justice in South
Africa".
The City of Hannover wants toilets for the third sex, and a similar
situation applies to some primary schools in Bavaria. In the future, carpenters
and bakers will also have to have their own toilets for the third sex and
handle job advertisements accordingly, otherwise they will face severe
penalties.
The Federal Agency for Civic
Education publishes an essay by Laura Moisi of the Humboldt University of Berlin,
in which, with reference to the cultural scientist Rosie Cox, it is claimed
that garbage is socially constructed and serves to exclude others, that notions
of cleanliness are "based on racist correspondences of whiteness with
purity" and that "the proximity to dirt and garbage" is
"globally racially and sexually structured (...). The private sphere thus
becomes the sphere in which social inequality is continuously maintained".
Since the then women's representative of the City of Hannover, Ursula
Müller, enforced in 1992 that for pictograms of bicycles on the street the
middle bar which marks the bicycle a man's bicycle has to be omitted,
construction companies are always busy scraping away this middle bar.
Ilona Horwath, Professor of Technology and Diversity at the University
of Paderborn, heads the Fortesy
project to investigate the fire brigade service, funded by the Ministry of Education and Research. She
complains that white heterosexual men from the working class shape the image of
the firefighter and thus represent an obstacle to integration and efficiency.
Fire brigades are "known for their resistance to change, which is
essentially fed by social dynamics".
More and more queer-feminist lesbians are hijacking successful gay
projects such as the Gay Museum, which is still kept alive exclusively by
volunteer gay men, but is run and conceived by lesbian women who express their
contempt for men by cleaning rooms of male energies in a magical ritual.
The City of Hannover is issuing recommendations for a gender-equitable
administrative language, a euphemism intended to hide the fact that this is actually
a regulation ("The new recommendation is binding for all correspondence
from the administration") and employees who block the new rules must
expect consequences, according to Equal Opportunities
Officer Friederike Kämpfe.
In other cities, too, the genderization of language is progressing.
Giessen is introducing the so-called gender star (“Einwohner*in“, meaning:
inhabitant / female inhabitant), and in Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Berlin and
Schleswig-Holstein work is underway on corresponding regulations.
The Trade Union for Education and
Science in Lower Saxony goes even further and wants to introduce language
dictation at school: "Language influences consciousness. That's why it's
good if gender-equitable language is taught from childhood on".
The most male-despicting advertisement of the year is from food company Edeka ("Thank you mommy that you're
not daddy") and shows fathers on Mother's Day as parenting failures and
despicable types. The clip is from the advertising agency Jung von Matt, which employs feminists in management positions
(Katja Kraus, managing director: "Every woman should be a feminist").
"Until we have abolished patriarchy, we urgently need strict income
and wealth limits for men" (newspaper Neues
Deutschland).
The environmental protection and the Fridays
for Future movement are also used to demonise men. Luisa Neubauer: "If
today's time teaches us anything, it is that #Women will change the world.
Because #Men have not got it managed". Climate change is supposed to be "essentially
a sexist crisis". Similarly several local groups of Fridays for Future: Bremen is holding a workshop on Feminism in the climate crisis, Dortmund
Feminism and empowerment at FfF,
Erfurt explains that climate protection is not possible without feminism, the Female Future Force Day is taking place
in Berlin-Tempelhof. And in Regensburg, the generation that wastes resources
like no other is scolding "the old, white men who got us into this
mess".
A young publicist on Twitter: "I hate men and hope that in the
climate crisis they don't die sooner, but have to suffer even more slowly and
painfully".
Those who understand German will
find more information about feminism in Germany in the book Especially women. It is the result of 4
years of research, a documentation of the 2nd and 3rd wave of feminism in
Germany from 1968 to 2019. it is about fathers and children, sexuality and
violence, work and money, state and international women's lobby, media and
censorship. Anyone who wants to know what tricks were used to install gender
mainstreaming, who ensured that the goal of financial independence for ex-wives
was thwarted in the divorce reform of 1977, how gender studies are manipulated,
what ludicrous sums are used to promote feminist lobbyists, how they influence
politics and the media and undermine democratic decision-making processes will
find answers here. The book presents facts about the war that feminists have
been waging against men and emancipated women for more than 50 years, with
devastating consequences for the whole of society. The statements are backed up
by about 7,000 references; a detailed index rounds off the book (Kindle Direct
Publishing 2020, 548 pages). You can order it here:
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