Some explanations before we
start:
German Political Partys: CDU (Christian Democrats) and SPD (Social
Democrats) form the „Big Coalition“. Also in the German Parliament there are:
Grüne (Green Party), AfD (Alternative for Germany, right wing party), FDP (Free
Democratic Party, classical liberal), Linke (Left wing Party).
BMFSFJ: Ministry for Women’s, Senior’s, Family’s
and Youth’s Affairs
State and Party Politics
The Big Coalition is resumed. In the 177-page coalition agreement,
exactly 16 lines are reserved for family law. It also states: "We want to
promote the potential of girls and women in particular". Women politicians
decide to work together across party lines on women's interests. In the
slipstream of the football World Cup, the Big Coalition changes the party law
and increases party funding from 165 to 190 million. By chance the same sum
that the established parties have lost due to election results of the AfD.
At a secret meeting between SPD women and Angela Merkel, ways to
"establish gender justice" is discussed.
The SPD is trying to renew itself without having to be self-critical. As
always, misandry plays a prominent role. Andrea Nahles is applying for SPD
party chairmanship and reaffirms the sentence in the SPD's party manifesto:
"If you want human society, you have to overcome the male one".
At the Berlin SPD party conference in June, the JuSos (youth
organisation of the Social Democrats) tabled a motion to promote feminist
pornography and to post it in the internet media libraries of the public
service media. The motion is accepted. At the Federal Congress of the JuSos in
November, a feminist declared herself in favour of the killing of unborn
children until shortly before birth: "The fundamental rights, the human
rights, apply first to women and then to everything else".
On the occasion of International Women's Day in March, women politicians
from CDU and SPD demand a quota regulation for women in parliaments. Minister
of Justice Katarina Barley wants to check "which screws can be turned in
an electoral law reform" to get more women into parliament. Constitutional
problems could be circumvented by quotas for the parties' election lists.
Barley: "The most important thing is for women to unite. That will work
with the Greens and the Left." All this despite the fact that women are
already disproportionately overrepresented in the parties.
In August, Franziska Giffey opens the exhibition "Ladies'
Choice" and starts the campaign "100 Years of Women's Right to
Vote". The fact that most men only got the right to vote 100 years ago is
ignored.
On Women's Day in March, the equal opportunities commissioner of the
BMFSFJ asks: "Why don't we rewrite our national anthem gender-sensitive?“
Several federal states want to introduce an additional holiday. In
Berlin the SPD, the Greens and the Left Party are campaigning for the
International Women's Day on March 8.
Ursula von der Leyen will stay as Minister of Defense in the new cabinet.
While the Bundeswehr is overburdened with its numerous foreign deployments and
its equipment is in a devastating state, von der Leyen prefers to deal with maternityuniforms in camouflage spots for pregnant female soldiers. At the same time,
however, she is planning an expansion of the Bundeswehr's range of tasks and
large-scale military armament. It also turns out that she illegally purchased
external management consultants such as Katrin Suder from McKinsey, who worked
sloppily, for millions of euros. Thousands of jobs in the procurement office
are unfilled, bureaucracy is inefficient, funds have been spent on other things
than approved. The fact that one of von der Leyen’s sons is associate at
McKinsey is certainly pure coincidence.
In 2018, 325 million euros will be provided in Saxony-Anhalt for
"main gender goals" alone, while there is no money for police and kindergartens.
The State Ministry of Justice and Equality of Saxony-Anhalt is distributing
funding for feminist dissertations, examination papers, etc. Meanwhile, the
Women's Council of Saxony-Anhalt has to answer for having smuggled millions
past the parliament.
Once again, a court, this time the Schleswig-Holstein Regional Court,
has ruled that it is legal to exclude men from applying to become equal
opportunities officers. According to the court, the female sex is "an
indispensable prerequisite for a substantial part of the activities of an equal
opportunities commissioner". Their work is necessary to "eliminate
the structural disadvantages of women that still exist".
The equal opportunities officers of the federal ministries and
subordinate authorities spent more than 700,000 euros on business trips in
2017. Still, the Bremen women's commissioners call for a tightening of the
state equality law and better working conditions.
Angela Merkel resigns as party leader. At the CDU party conference on
December 7, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer is elected as her successor. It is
particularly embarrassing that the newspaper Zeit transfigures the transition as feminine and thus gently, in
view of the fact that AKK has obtained her wafer-thin majority using Merkel's
network and with the usual fiddle and manipulation at a secret meeting.
Media & Censorship
On 1 January, the Network Enforcement Act comes into force, which is
criticised by the Unesco for possible effects on free speech. SJWs are stunned that
this law can also be used against them. Sawsan Chebli, ex-Deputy Spokeswoman of
the Federal Foreign Office, explains in social democratic logic: "Free
speech is not protected if you are allowed to say everything".
In Germany, Facebook is apparently not only controlled by Bertelsmann
subsidiary Arvato, but also by Syrian migrants who leave anti-Semitic agitation
untouched. Questions to Facebook Germany in this regard are not answered, and
the company conveys a dubious impression altogether.
Federal Justice Minister Katarina Barley wants the social media to be
obliged "to make algorithms more pluralistic", she explicitly
mentions topics from the gender discussion in addition to the refugee problem.
Whoever demands a pluralism obligation in the digital age of plurality of
opinion obviously has something different in mind.
A statistic from Youtube shows the extent to which governments asks the
company to delete videos. Germany plays a leading role.
Critical citizens are increasingly faced with house searches and the
confiscation of IT equipment. In particular, the Code of Criminal Procedure has
often been tightened up in order to spy on citizens.
Since it is sometimes technically difficult to remotely install State Trojans
on private computers (a law that passed last year), the Conference of Ministers
of Justice decides on a "legal right of access" which will allow the
police to break into flats for this purpose in the future.
The federal state of Hesse plans a new law for the protection of the Constitution
and an amendment of the Hessian Police Law, which will allow, among other
things, criminal police informers to be withdrawn from prosecution, state
Trojans to be introduced and electronic foot chains to be put on "persons
who may possibly cause danger", i. e. persons who did not commit an
offence.
This is all part of a comprehensive erosion of democracy. It includes
the ever-increasing curtailment of privacy, the transfer of decision-making
processes to non-legitimate bodies outside Parliament, the electronic
networking of all kinds of devices which makes it possible to monitor citizens,
and the attempt to gradually abolish cash. Another way of preventing people
from thinking critically is to fill them up with useless information.
In Schnöggersburg, a city of retorts built for the military in 2012, the
Bundeswehr is rehearsing civil war situations. Officially, the site serves to
prepare for foreign deployments and to train the recapture of a city captured
by enemies. But of course exercises like these can also be transferred to the
smashing of popular uprisings.
The Berlin Senator for Integration, Dilek Kolat (SPD), is supporting a
mobile phone app that can be used to mobilize large crowds in German, Turkish
and English to counteract unwanted demonstrations.
The federal government is preparing a media treaty that will force
bloggers, website operators and other alternative media makers to apply for a
broadcasting license. Which, of course, can be denied at any time.
The Amadeu-Antonio-Foundation, which according to its self-description is
committed against hate, spreads hate slogans and also gives "argumentationaids" at Christmas, with which dissenters of the prevailing opinion are to
be brought into line at the Christmas family reunion. For this kind of activism,
the foundation gets tax money on a large scale, almost 1 million euros from the
federal government in 2017 alone. Not to mention their widely ramified
sub-organisations. A petition calling for an end to the financing of the
foundation from tax revenues disappears from the net.
The New German Media Makers, who are connected to the Amadeu-Antonio-Foundation
and to George Soros, are also financed by millions of euros from the state and
cultivate double standards by refusing objective reporting, evaluating hate
speech differently according to political position and demanding that
"ethnic origin, religion or sexual orientation" should be made
unrecognisable in criminal acts, as this would be irrelevant for those acts. In
addition, they are opening a "helpdesk" which "advises"
journalists on how to deal with hate speech, sponsored by the BMFSFJ, among
others.
Last but not least, the New Responsibility Foundation, financed by
Bertelsmann and George Soros' Open Society Foundation among others, is also
involved in the attempt to discredit independent media.
As every year politicians, media and lobby organizations are once again
trying to immunize feminism against criticism and demonize people who stand up
for men. A few headlines: "The commitment to anti-feminism functions
worldwide as a link for reactionary forces“. "On the Internet, the
community of MRAs is growing. Their ideas have already cost lives."
The Amadeu-Antonio-Foundation publishes a brochure sponsored by the
BMFSFJ with strategies on how to counter criticism of feminism.
Another brochure of the Amadeu-Antonio-Foundation demands control of
attitudes in day-care centres and proposes a kaleidoscope of measures up to disciplinary
actions against dissenters, because "stereotypical gender conceptions
(binary and traditional conceptions of being a boy and a girl, masculinity and
femininity)" would have "a bridging function to right-wing extremist
ideology".
The congress "How to deal with family conflicts in a noviolent way",
which does not follow the feminist doctrine of domestic violence as male
violence, receives hostility by politicians and activists already in advance
and is disrupted during the events.
Towards the end of the year it turns out that journalist Claas Relotius
falsified many of his stories and invented people, statements and stories in
order to serve desired clichés. The media try to limit the damage and declare
his behaviour an exception. The uncovering thus also serves to conceal similar
cases. Incidentally, the old clichés are even being used in the uncovering
process: A female City Councillor, for example, claims that a woman could never
have got this far because she would constantly be questioned. It is no secret
that the correct attitude is more important to the media than objective
reporting and that German news programmes spread propaganda. The example of a
journalist, who lets a guest speak openly without "intervening" and
is put under pressure by the broadcasting company, shows how journalists are
brought into line.
Probably no event this year is fed more with fake news by the leading
media than the demonstrations after the murder of a german-cuban carpenter by
migrants in Chemnitz. There is talk of hunting down foreigners, even pogroms.
As always in such cases feminists don't need be asked to instrumentalize such
incidents for their ideology: "Toxic masculinity is by no means a right-wing
phenomenon, but concerns most men who grow up in this society". Or even
simpler: "The problem is called masculinity".
The vote on a possible abolition of public broadcasting fees in
Switzerland triggers panic among German media makers, as people here are
similarly dissatisfied with the programmes and the compulsory levy. The argumentation
follows the usual pattern: "As in Switzerland, criticism of public service
broadcasting in Germany comes primarily from the right-wing spectrum of
political parties".
At a Bertelsmann Foundation event, Federal President Frank-WalterSteinmeier expressed his wish that established media should be strengthened and
alternative media sanctioned.
A feminist blogger becomes head of Tagesschau.de, the web presence of
probably the most influencial German news programme. Hardly in office, she
first goes on maternity leave.
A journalist of the public service broadcasting is of the opinion that
journalists should stop depicting reality and pleads "for value-orientedjournalism".
Work, Money & Health
Female politicians from the AfD to the Left deplore the lack of women in
leadership positions. At the same time a study by German companies reveals that
only 30 percent of the women surveyed aspire to a leadership position at all.
Katarina Barley threatens the industry with a women's quota for company
directors.
Because male prosecutors are underrepresented in Hamburg, men are to be
given preference there. Maria Wersig, President of the German Women's Lawyers'Association: "This does not comply with the Constitution". According
to her, it is forbidden "to use sex as a starting point for the
recruitment decision" and exceptions for women could only be justified
"because women are still structurally disadvantaged in state and society.
Such de facto discrimination for men does not result from the fact that they
are numerically underrepresented in an authority".
The Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund DGB (Federation of German Trade Unions)
decides on a women's quota at the Federal Congress in May.
Again the World Economic Forum disseminates the Global Gender GapReport, which deplores the eternal discrimination of women. This is achieved
because, among other things, preference for men is seen as discrimination and
preference for women as equality.
Meanwhile, the number of homeless people is rising everywhere. In
Koblenz, a homeless person is beheaded in March. In November the first homeless
people freeze to death in Hamburg. In Berlin, after years of inactivity, there
are at least signs of a political solution, but the reason for this is probably
mainly the increased proportion of women and migrants among the homeless. In
any case, subsidies are to be used above all for places in emergency overnight
stays for women and families. The women's spokeswoman of the Left said:
"Homelessness also has a sex. More than 100,000 women in Germany are homeless".
Because 75 percent of the users of the food bank in Essen are migrants,
some of whom are becoming increasingly aggressive, the operators are imposing a
temporary ban on the admission of foreigners. Immediately they are accused of
xenophobia from all sides. On the other hand, there is no outcry when the food
bank in Marl puts single men at a disadvantage.
Sexuality & Violence
In Germany #MeToo is literally sponsored by the media. The newspaper Zeit, for example, published nearly 200
articles on the subject by mid-March, almost all of them with feminist propaganda.
In order to fuel the campaign in Germany, a German Harvey Weinstein is
sought and found in Dieter Wedel. Three women accuse him of incidents more than
20 years ago.
Some prudent women – mostly women – try to adjust the perspective and
are immediately chided.
In a small town in Schleswig-Holstein, a social democratic Community Representative
feels "sexist harassed" by some pictures in the town hall ("As a
woman, these pictures repel me."). Thereupon the pictures are imposed
during the meetings.
The BMFSFJ publishes the annual report "Relationship
Violence". In order to increase the number of people affected, among other
things, the breach of the maintenance obligation was assessed as "economicviolence". The media uncritically adopt the presentation by BMFSFJ minister
Franziska Giffey ("For many women, home is a dangerous place") and
are carried away by headlines such as "The greatest danger for a woman?
Her own husband".
In Freiburg, a now 9-year-old boy has been offered to rapists on the
Internet by his own mother and her paedophile friend since 2015. The
authorities and the judiciary have done nothing despite specific information; the
family court had assumed that the mother would do the right thing for the boy's
well-being. In the discussion about consequences, the decisive points, the
women-friendly and anti-male stereotypes in the minds of those responsible, are
ignored.
The 3rd Criminal Division of the Federal High Court rejects the general
prosecution of women who have joined the IS.
Family, Fathers, Children
A study manipulated by former BMFSFJ minister Manuela Schwesig about
"Child welfare and rights of access", the so-called Petra study, is
about to be completed. The FDP is already calling for a new family policy model
and wants joint custody to be established as the normal case if the parents
fail to reach agreement after a separation. The Left Party makes a
counter-motion. On 15 March the Bundestag discusses it. Of all people a family
lawyer of the Greens, who certainly does not speak out unselfishly against
joint custody, assumes that the fathers concerned have financial self-interest
instead of fatherly love. In rare agreement SPD and AfD also polemicize against
a change of the present practice, of which even the federal government must
admit that their bases originate from the 50's of the last century and have
nothing in common with reality of life today. Mother's assocoations see their
hopes dashed. On the internet, women desperately wonder whether there are no
studies that speak out against joint custody.
Again this year suggestions appear all through the media to take away
the driving licence from fathers who don't pay their maintenance obligation. As
usual, the fact that many fathers simply are not able to pay is ignored, as is
the fact that in terms of the percentage far more mothers do not pay. The
German Institute for Economic Research had already established in 2014 that 85
percent of mothers liable for maintenance do not fulfil their obligations, and
by no means always for reasons of poverty.
On 14 June, the Bundestag debates the reform of the Law of Descent in
order to adapt its regulations to the "marriage for all" (i. e.
homosexual marriage). The draft law of the Greens views things from the
perspective of lesbian couples and provides for the complete deprivation of
rights of fathers. Legal and natural parenthood are radically separated with
the exception of the natural mother. Homosexual men also oppose the proposal.
Six German medical associations have compiled the current research and
published a new guideline on phimosis, which warns against hasty surgery.
Meanwhile, circumcision of boys and men in Africa is still being sold as a form
of development aid and HIV prevention. The Federal Ministry for Economic
Cooperation and Development plus organisations such as Unicef and the Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation finance forced circumcision of schoolchildren and
endless suffering. In Uganda, children are denied medical help in hospitals if
their mothers do not agree to circumcision.
What has happened on boy support during the last 18 years since the
first PISA study (Programme for International Student
Assessment) came out? For 100
STEM projects for girls, there are 4 reading promotion projects for boys, of
which only two flyers are sponsored by an education or youth ministry. A study
shows that Berlin's third graders can hardly read, the responsible female SPD
education senator tries to keep the study under lock and key, and even when the
data is passed on, it is not broken down by the sexes as usual. I can imagine
one or two reasons for this.
The extent to which misandry has assumed can be seen by means of an
incident at a school in Hesse, where a female teacher does not let a pupil go
to the toilet because of his sex: He is a man and has to endure it.
Gender, Diversity &
Misandry
Hungary ends gender studies at Hungarian universities by government
decree in October, which causes their profiteers in other countries to panic
reactions. The "Fact Finder" of the Tagesschau headlines: "Why
is this subject so controversial, especially in right-wing circles?“ SabineHark, "one of the most prominent gender researchers in Germany",
declares the Hungarian resolution to be an "attack on the freedom of
research and teaching", "part of the worldwide backlash against
self-determination, sexual freedom and reproductive rights", "the pillar
of the national authoritarian attack on democracy. This is what we experience
in many countries worldwide, that attacks on freedom of the press [?] and freedom
of science are part of the neo-reactionary land seizure of democracy". The
threat that the representatives of gender studies are considering an
international strike triggers general cheerfulness.
The red-red-green Senate of Berlin (Social Democrats, Left Party, Green
Party) wants to be written into the Constitution that every person can
determine his or her gender by definition: It would be necessary to protect
"one's own sexual self-image, regardless of whether the perceived sex
corresponds to the sex assigned at birth".
Meanwhile, the federal government cannot answer the question of how many
genders there actually are.
The newspaper Süddeutsche is
outraged that sexes are to be determined on the basis of genitals in the USA:
"This is retrograde and above all nonsense“.
The Duden publishers (who print the dictionary of the German language) publish
profeminist books on gender language. The female editor-in-chief: "The
whole thing is a negotiation process." When asked why the use of gender terms
polarize, she says: "This is ultimately a question of power, I believe.
Some parts of the population have to give up some power on this point. Maybe
they don't like it that much. That's one aspect, that is, men."
A feminist tries to sue her bank because of their use of the genericmasculine on the forms, complaining that she is "practically hushed
up" as a woman. She receives moral support from the head of the Federal
Anti-Discrimination Office and the president of the German Women's Lawyers'
Association. It may be assumed that the plaintiff also receives financial
support from relevant circles.
A Berlin woman barrister believes that it is against the Constitution
that in boy choirs no girls are allowed to sing along.
A feminist publishes the bumpy poem "Men are assholes", which
is spread immediately on Facebook. This triggers the hashtag #MenAreTrash. Male
feminists practice gestures of submission ("Real men know that they are
trash"). A website states: "Even women can be sexist. But we
shouldn't call it that."
The first gender empathy gap day starts.
And …
The University of Duisburg-Essen is planning a guide to gender-equitable
language, which the Equality Commission wants to be used in students' works.
The University for Applied Sciene Potsdam offers trainings in social justice
and diversity in which, for example, the rhetorical question is asked whether
there are only two sexes.
At Humboldt University Berlin, students from the Student Parliament and
the AStA (General Students' Committee) have slipped paid posts across to each
other. 114,000 euros are paid annually in expense allowances for officials of
student self-administration. Neither the university management nor the Berlin
Senate have any interest in clarifying the matter, but block all relevant
investigations. "Interests worthy of protection of those concerned"
would be opposed by such an investigation. By the way, the student parliament
has established a new rule for "hard quotas": As soon as no more woman
wants to speak out, a debate is over.
„Pro Quota“ starts a hotline, where vacancies in the editorships can be
announced, which then the lobby federation will publish, in order to lift women
to the appropriate posts. Notwithstanding the fact that not a single film and
media subsidy in Germany is in male hands and that 7 out of 9 heads of the
state broadcasting companies are women. At the Cannes Film Festival, an
initiative demands that women will be represented 50 percent at future film
festivals. German film academies want to ensure that their students pay attention
to equal rights.
A feminist in a respected daily newspaper calls on women to be more
militant in order to become more "visible" and wants to "openup" marriage further: "There is no reason why this should not also be
possible between more than two adults or between siblings".
See also: The feminist year inGermany 2017.
It is impossible to keep up with the happenings in every country. As someone outside Germany, I thank you for putting together this condensed form of the events for the men's movement in the country.
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