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What is anti-feminism?

The anti-feminists: Rene Kuhn

A ghost is going around, his name is Rene Kuhn and they call him the anti-feminists, more precisely, he has given the name yourself. He is a former President of the Swiss People's Party (SVP) of Lucerne and founder of the anti-feminism interest group. On 30 October it will be in Zurich, the first international anti-feminists meeting. The press already rumbles , scents Reaktionismus and misogyny and Kuhn described as "trash politicians". The interest group now has around 600 members. The People's Party National Councillor Yvette Estermann believes Kuhn here a "gap discovered" have.

Logo of the anti-feminists

Admittedly, the term "anti-feminist" sounds menacing and disturbing. But what is anti-feminism? We want to bring some light into the darkness. Anti-feminism must have the opposite of feminism, or at least against it - so far so good. We will probably feel compelled to deal first with the question of what feminism is. Only when we know that we can understand what is the opposite. The question "What is Feminism" sounds naive, but it is complicated and the answer is more surprising than it seems.

We can say the first thing that feminism is not, or better said what he is not more . He is no movement, feminism does not succeed for a long time on the road, it lacks the protagonists. The "Feminism has totgesiegt itself" - as Beate Kricheldorf, founding member of the Association for Gender Democracy AGENS it once brought to the point. The right question is therefore not "What is feminism. But "What is left of him." The answer to this question, I would be derived using two examples.

What was left of feminism

First example: A lecture on pill addiction:

Auf einer Tagung für Pflegekräfte hielt eine Krankenschwester eine Powerpoint-Präsentation über Tablettenabhängigkeit bei Frauen. Besonders hob sie dabei hervor, dass Frauen doppelt so häufig wie Männer von diesem Problem betroffen sind. Am Ende des Vortrags schlussfolgerte sie ohne nähere Begründung, dass dies der Doppelbelastung von Frauen (Familie und Beruf), sprich mangelnder Gleichberechtigung geschuldet sei.

Tablettenabhängigkeit ist aber nur eine bestimmte Form von Suchterkrankungen. So gibt es z.B. noch Drogenabhängigkeit oder Alkoholismus, bei denen die Geschlechterverteilungen umgekehrt sind. Insgesamt ist die deutliche Mehrheit aller Suchtkranken männlich, Männer and women merely show different addictions. The conclusion of Speaker made so much sense. The nurse did what people do in their daily lives. Instead of having to look for explanations, they made use of an established pattern declaration and submitted it as a blueprint of the problem. Explanations for the mind, what are hand flatterer for hands - nice and simple. Therefore, no one in the audience recognized the contradiction, instead there was a collective nod.

another example, a television discussion about self-murdering children:

Info Betrachtet man Suizidversuche, kehrt sich das Geschlechter-Verhältnis zwar um, dabei ist aber zu beachten, dass nicht jede suizidale Handlung auch ein ernst gemeinter Versuch ist. Viele Versuche sind so arrangiert, dass rechtzeitige Hilfe noch möglich ist. Letzteres ist bei Mädchen und Frauen häufiger der Fall. Ein solcher Suizidversuch ist oft als Hilferuf apellativ an die Umwelt gerichtet

Bekanntermaßen begehen Männer häufiger Suizid als Frauen. Jungen bringen sich sogar 10 mal häufiger um als Mädchen. Auf einem deutschen Fernsehsender wurde hierzu einmal im Stil eines Themenabends eine Diskussion mit Fachleuten ausgestrahlt. Die um ein vielfaches höhere Suizidrate von Jungen wurde lediglich beiläufig with the single sentence "Boys are something affected more frequently mentioned. That lies behind the word " something " the number ten, did not learn of the audience.

The Silence of the experts surprised. Suppose a scientist wants to go to the bottom of a particular phenomenon. This is now clear that a certain population of this phenomenon is affected more than average. It must be assumed that this population has a particular property, the beneficiaries of this phenomenon and provides him Atnworten on the causes for other populations. It would seem to serve the cause only logical to give this particularly affected group as special attention.

But if hidden such connections, as in this case, completely - are downright taboo, it seems to run in thinking something fundamentally wrong. In discussions about it I encountered again and again the argument that too much focus on the boys but could distract from the problems of girls. Such thinking is me in the opposite case never met. Wherever the concern is emphasized for girls, no one gets the idea that this could harm the boy.

Gynozentrismus

tell us what these two examples of the remains of feminism? Feminism is today, I would bring it to the point, nothing more than a state of mind to think a certain way of seeing the world, to categorize, organize, and interpret. This attitude gives us, as in the case of the nurse explanations that we use as templates around the world into oppressors and oppressed divide. It acts like a filter that allows us to hide as in the example of child suicides anything that might endanger the female monopoly on suffering. This mentality has become mainstream, we use them constantly, without it being really aware of.

gynozentrisches Behind this lies a world view, belong to what everything on the woman to see and interpret is. These mechanisms we encounter every day. About when discussing steadily over quotas on supervisory boards, on the other hand, disturbs but does not the fact that twice as many men as women with no education, and dream of a normal job just may. Or if the media reports about one to stoning condemned Iranian , will use international organizations for them, but no one noticed at once that a total of seven Is convicted, six of whom are men. Or as if the United Nations to write again and again to combat violence against women on the flag, yet, leave out that 70 percent of violence victims are male. Or if it is always claimed that there were mainly women victims of war, although the masses of civilian war victims, boys and men in fighting age (between 15 and 55 years). suffer

Men also

Gynozentrik Thanks to this, the troubles and sufferings of the women made continuously in the spotlight, hide those of men, however, categorically. Thus, and only this creates the impression of women als den ausschließlich Leidenden und den Männern als den ausschließlich Privilegierten. Dies gilt für die Gegenwart ebenso wie für die Interpretation der Vergangenheit.

Darauf aufbauend hat der Feminismus  eine Opferrhetorik entwickelt, die jedweden Versuch, männliche Benachteiligungen zu thematisieren, im Keim erstickt. Wo immer Männer als Opfer in Erscheinung treten, sind Frauen schlussendlich die viel größeren  Opfer. Und sind Männer an einer bestimmten Stelle benachteiligt, so gilt das selbstverständlich als Ausgleich dafür, dass Frauen an anderer Stelle noch viel stärker benachteiligt sind. Eine weitere Variante ist, männliche Benachteiligungen und Zwänge als Produkt ihres eigenen Patriarchats zu erklären - selbst Schuld! Im feministischen Denksystem gibt es nur weibliche, niemals männliche Opfer. Das Verhältnis von Männern zu Frauen wird vom Feminismus beschrieben wie dasjenige einer Regierung zu seinem Volk - als ein statisches Machtgefälle zwischen Herrschenden und Unterworfenen.

Manch einer mag einwenden, dass es neben dieser Geisteshaltung noch die Politik, ihre  Gesetzte  und ihre Institutionen gibt, welche den Feminismus in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten seine heutige Gestalt annehmen ließen. Dieser  "institutionaliserte Staatsfeminismus", wie er von seinen Kritikern spöttisch genannt wird, ist aber not have its own appearance. He is nothing more than the said condensate of mind. Equal opportunity laws that provide for only the advancement of women, a legislator who understands the "existing discrimination" only discrimination against women, equal opportunities officer who may be elected only by women, equality bodies, the money just for women and girls projects provide; A Family Ministry, which in his name with all except "males," and so on and so on and so on ... That's what comes of it, if a mere attitude is enshrined in law.

From a state of mind to ideology

Each mind can, provided loving care, to develop a theory or even an ideology. This is particularly true if they actually consumed by a legitimate and successful movement, as it is certainly the case with feminism. What we know of feminism today, of its own legitimacy through the women's movement of the seventies - a movement of the past which is the modern feminist mainstream and its dull, hollow men scorn nothing in common. Not without reason, some feminists, her former sisters have turned their backs. Prominent examples of this are some of Astrid Friesen and Katharina Rutschky.

who practices at the excesses of the modern feminist criticism is to automatically against the women's movement of that time. He thus falls under suspicion, in principle, against women and emancipation. In this manner, dogmas and thought control are established, the feminists give immunity. And only under the protection of that immunity, it was possible that feminism became what he is today: a life-and realitätsverfremdende ideology, a collective perception disorder.

The glass beads player

Hermann Hesse

In the novel "The Glass Bead Game Hermann Hesse outlines the vision of a spiritualized elite. In a closed society where the art of glass bead game is run, a discipline which is intended to sustain and further development of the higher arts and sciences. Synthetically by playing a variety of scientific and artistic disciplines together united and continues to develop new varieties. This results but never anything fundamentally new. It will only existing reassembled. It is necessary to meet a complex set of rules that only consecrated glass beads players are familiar with. Young players are glass beads for this always taught by older masters. The community of glass beads player lives separated from the rest of the people and has completely alienated from the secular life. The Glass Bead Game itself and its keepers exist only for its own sake.

Hesse's Glass Bead Game is an apt description of how feminism today, "played" is. It operates mainly in political and academic circles and maintain a world view, which lags behind the actual developments in society for decades. Provided with immunity and protected from any criticism advanced feminist ideas of the world For decades, such as under a glass bell. No wonder, then, that feminism lost the grip and the real lives of real people more and more distant. Feminism has long produced nothing new. According to ancient glass beads player fashion, he varied only the same old accusations and demands. As the glass beads players in the novel feminists are now bound only by their self-preservation, feminism has become an end in itself.

What is anti-feminism?

So now we have clarity about what is left over from feminism: a disfiguring distortion of reality, the dull men to eternal perpetrators and Frauen zu ewigen Opfern erklärt und damit die Verhältnisse zwischen Männern und Frauen in enorme Schieflage gebracht hat. Zudem eine Ansammlung lebensfremder Glasperlenspieler, die nur noch  um sich selbst und ihre eigene Ideologie kreisen. Was hingegen ein Antifeminist wie René Kuhn ist, lässt sich in einem einzigen, einfachen Satz beschreiben: er ist einer, der angetreten ist, den Glasperlenspielern die Stirn zu bieten.