the reactions to The reporting of the daily mirror were fierce. You do “from a mosquito an elephant”, the “hysterical Political Correctness” take the people in this country “air to Breathe”. The woman had a “sense of humor, contemporary”, “insulted liver sausage”, which could not laugh at himself.
Gabriele Möller-Bunny Beck, had criticized the carnival Bernd Stelter in Cologne on stage, this joke about the bulky double name of the CDU-Chairman, Annegret Kramp-made cart-maker was Meant to be. She was referred for the hall. Now a debate is over whether the incident should be considered sexist.
it was not planned The action, says Gabriele Möller-Bunny Beck to the daily mirror. “I just blew the hat. I could no longer hear it and feel it as discriminatory.“ The criticism of the supposedly bulky double name, meet today, is still mostly women. The organizer is made from house right and of the hall referred to, and accept you, “you could have done it but also to solve the sovereign. Obviously, critique is not desired, but only clapping is allowed.“
As they went, had to accompany her husband. “The time In which we live today?”, Möller-Bunny Beck is surprised. “I thought, this gender understanding, we would have left long behind us”. Her husband reached meanwhile, numerous hostility in social networks. “Let the Old divorce!”, or “Have you not your wife?” is there to read.
As a self-employed tax consultant Möller-Bunny Beck is also affected by another Internet phenomenon: Many users rate since the gig in Cologne on evaluation platforms negative. The 57-Year-old wants to take legal steps to check. After all, the existence of a hazard.
not Until 1991 that women were made in the name of choice
critics of the women say that in the carnival of everything a laugh should be. What the defenders of free speech suggest, however: Humor is always also a question of social power relations. Women may only decide, since 1991, on a completely equal footing on the continuation of your birth name and him since even against the will of the man. Double names are a relic of a time in which women as a possession of the man were considered a product of Patriarchal ethos, the to take out now to make fun of.
for a Long time, it was in the name of law, the only concession to the male-dominated politics on the emancipation of women. And even today, women in the carnival are still often only as a pretty accessory, as a barely dressed cheerleaders, or “tasty girls”.
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Hannes Soltau
On the Homepage of the Cologne carnival guidelines, the operators are formulated. The Rhenish people-oriented festival, “future and innovation”, take “social responsibility”, wool perform a mirror function – “critical of society, value-oriented and independent.” The six Items in the Executive Board of the Cologne carnival, however, are occupied with all the men.
