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    <title>Loud and Luise</title>
    <link>https://www.fembio.org/english/biography.php/woman/blog/</link>
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    <dc:rights>Copyright 2011</dc:rights>
    <dc:date>2011-07-10T21:28:00+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>We too can finally have our “wild marriage”</title>
      <link>https://www.fembio.org/english/biography.php/woman/comments/endlich-duerfen-auch-wir-in-wilder-ehe-leben/</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[NB: The German term &ldquo;wilde Ehe&rdquo; (wild marriage) refers to the situation of two persons who live together, possibly even have children together, without being legally married. (Perhaps something akin to today&rsquo;s undocumented immigrants in the USA.) Previously this term applied only to heterosexual couples; the English &ldquo;living in sin&rdquo; is a rough equivalent. (Of course LGBTQ folks are still considered to be living in sin by many countries, cultures and religions, no matter whether single or partnered.) On June 30 the German Bundestag voted to legalize &ldquo;marriage for all.&rdquo; Luise&rsquo;s comments follow:

I have always considered marriage to be an institution in which the age-old patriarchal power imbalance between the sexes is reinforced all the more by being cemented in law. As SPD leader Thomas Oppermann rightly commented on television host Maybrit Illner&rsquo;s recent talk show: &ldquo;In the past a wife could not sign a contract or practice a profession without her husband&rsquo;s permission. In short, if ]]></description>
      <dc:date>2017-07-04T10:54:00+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Revolt of the Patriots against Mother</title>
      <link>https://www.fembio.org/english/biography.php/woman/comments/aufstand-der-patrioten-gegen-die-mutter/</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Recently, on February 5, 2017, the New England Patriots won the Super Bowl for the fifth time; the following Tuesday they were celebrated in Boston with a massive confetti parade. 100 million viewers worldwide are said to have watched the Super Bowl.

We too were among these millions, and despite a completely discouraging first half we hung on to the end, when the Pats caught up in the fourth quarter from a score of 3 to 28 against the Atlanta Falcons and claimed a historic 34-28 victory.

All well and good, but why should a feminist be interested in such a brutal male sport? Like boxing, football often leads to head and brain injuries, and not seldom to later dementia. A good thing that so far women haven&rsquo;t been able to get enthusiastic about it.

Moreover, the Patriots&rsquo; trainer, quarterback and owner are all Trump voters, and Trump is an avowed Patriots fan. We decided that in this game we were covered for any outcome: in the case of a Falcons&rsquo; victory we would rejoice that Trump ]]></description>
      <dc:date>2017-02-13T15:37:00+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>“HUMANIZING HILLARY“? Authenticity, Humanity and Paradoxical Demands in the U.S. Presidential Campaign</title>
      <link>https://www.fembio.org/english/biography.php/woman/comments/humanizing-hillary-ueber-authentizitaet-inhumanitaet-und-paradoxe-vorschrif/</link>
      <guid>https://www.fembio.org/english/biography.php/woman/comments/humanizing-hillary-ueber-authentizitaet-inhumanitaet-und-paradoxe-vorschrif/#When:17:31:00Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[I returned to Boston at the beginning of July, and without a doubt I&rsquo;ve watched too much television in the last two weeks: first the Republican and then the Democratic Conventions (RNC and DNC), in both cases Monday through Thursday evenings from eight till shortly before midnight. Why? It was exciting theater, or better, a Great Spectacle. And of course I&rsquo;m &ldquo;with her&rdquo; and wanted not only to watch her make history, but also to find out how she would be attacked.

The question that continues to preoccupy me: how is it possible that the contest between Hillary and the Donald &ndash; actually a &ldquo;no-brainer&rdquo; as they say here, a decision that should be easy even without a brain &ndash; is still so close. The most qualified candidate ever to campaign for the office of President is running against the least qualified, and 100 days before the election and after both conventions they are basically neck and neck! People are writing and puzzling over this paradox here and the world over. From my European, ]]></description>
      <dc:date>2016-08-02T17:31:00+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Brexit, Brortie or Braustritt: Should English “remain” a working language of the European Union?*</title>
      <link>https://www.fembio.org/english/biography.php/woman/comments/brexit-brexitus-oder-braustritt-sollte-englisch-eu-arbeitssprache-bleiben/</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Brexit has created all sorts of problems. One that hasn&rsquo;t yet been noticed: it shifts the linguistic equilibrium. The EU distinguishes between official languages and working languages. It has 24 official languages and 3 working languages, namely &ndash; in alphabetical order &ndash; English, French and German. Every resident of the EU can appear before its committees and institutions and speak in her own mother tongue without having to stumble around in a foreign language. I once gave a speech in German to the European Council and was simultaneously translated, by interpreters sitting in glass booths up above the auditorium, into the native languages of all those present. In providing this service the EU spares no expense, for no citizen of the EU may be discriminated against because of her or his native language. &ldquo;Economic inequality&rdquo; is bad enough and shouldn&rsquo;t be made even worse through &ldquo;linguistic inequality.&rdquo; And the EU thereby not only guarantees language justice, it also provides many ]]></description>
      <dc:date>2016-06-27T05:54:00+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Against Sexism in Pair Skating</title>
      <link>https://www.fembio.org/english/biography.php/woman/comments/wider-den-sexismus-im-paarlauf/</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Pair skating is a figure skating discipline. International Skating Union (ISU) regulations describe pair teams as consisting of "one lady and one man." The sport is distinguished from ice dancing and single skating by elements unique to pair skating, including overhead lifts, twist lifts, death spirals, and throw jumps. (Wikipedia).

&nbsp;

These defining remarks from the always helpful Wikipedia are &ndash; as is often the case &ndash; linguistically very interesting:

First of all, Wikipedia finds it appropriate to explain to us precisely what is meant by a &ldquo;pair.&rdquo; In this day and age, after all, there are all sorts of pairs, partners or couples, all the way to same sex married couples, a phenomenon of the 21st century which has been spreading like wildfire, even into Catholic Ireland and the evangelically infiltrated USA. Compared with that, pair skating appears as a bastion of backwardness, and Wikipedia has to remind us of that through its cumbersome definition of &ldquo;pair&rdquo;: "one lady and one ]]></description>
      <dc:date>2015-07-26T14:05:00+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Female quota for the cockpit</title>
      <link>https://www.fembio.org/english/biography.php/woman/comments/frauenquote-fuers-cockpit/</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[The airlines reacted quickly: Effective immediately the &ldquo;two-person&rdquo; rule should be applied in German cockpits, as in American. Regular psychological tests for pilots are also being considered, according to today&rsquo;s news. At the same time it has been reported: &ldquo;On Friday in Berlin the Bundesrat approved a new law requiring major corporations in the future to appoint women to one third of the positions on their boards of directors.&rdquo; (Handelsblatt) Lufthansa is one of the major corporations.

I would like to make a suggestion. Lufthansa should institute a female quota not only for its board of directors, but also for its flight decks. It is certainly high time for this, since at present Lufthansa boasts only 6 per cent women pilots.

During my radio and TV marathon following the catastrophe in the French Alps I learned that the suicide rate among men is four times higher than among women. With each woman that it trains to become a pilot, therefore, Lufthansa could significantly reduce ]]></description>
      <dc:date>2015-03-27T12:27:00+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>When Mamma gets milked: Sexism in Sign Languages</title>
      <link>https://www.fembio.org/english/biography.php/woman/comments/wenn-mamma-gemolken-wird-sexismus-in-den-zeichensprachen/</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Our grandson, 13 months old, can only speak a few syllables, but these few all the more forcefully. Suddenly overcome with excitement, the sweet little boy will shout at penetrating volume and in a commanding tone &ldquo;Dat!&rdquo; or &ldquo;Ayt!&rdquo; or &ldquo;Mammammam!&rdquo;

He&rsquo;s not yet able to say &ldquo;more!&rdquo; &ndash; but he can signify it with a gesture. His mother explained that he had already learned a few signs of Baby Sign Language (Baby SL). When he wants to nurse, he makes the sign for &ldquo;milk.&rdquo; It is derived from the act of milking a cow: he opens and closes his little fist in a milking motion.

The little boy doesn&rsquo;t know how a cow is milked, but the big boys, who thought up the gesture and transferred it to mother&rsquo;s milk, surely do. Mamma gets milked just like a cow.

I didn&rsquo;t find this all especially comical. It&rsquo;s true that as creatures of Mother Nature we shouldn&rsquo;t elevate ourselves above the animals, but this equation of nursing mothers with milk cattle thoroughly displeased all the women in our family.

Now ]]></description>
      <dc:date>2014-08-10T18:41:00+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Men Are Like Pressure Cookers</title>
      <link>https://www.fembio.org/english/biography.php/woman/comments/maenner-sind-wie-schnellkochtoepfe/</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Here are the things I&rsquo;ve added in the past week. Added to the list of things that scare me:

&bull; Backpacks: Who knows whether a pressure cooker might not be inside? &bull; Pressure cookers: I always thought they were dangerous and got rid of mine long ago. But HOW dangerous they are I only learned this past week. &bull; Boston Marathon: Even in the past I watched it at most on television. But since last Monday there are surely also other anxious persons who will avoid the Boston Marathon from now on. And all other marathons too. And for that matter, major events and mass gatherings of every sort. &bull; Boston: It&rsquo;s not been so long since this town lost its fixed association with the &ldquo;Boston Strangler.&rdquo; Then came the suicide attackers of 9/11, who started out from Boston on their deadly flights. Now Boston has gained a new association and dimension of fear, along with Newtown, Aurora, Utoya (Norway), Winnenden, Erfurt (school shootings in Germany), Columbine.

&nbsp;

The following points have been on my ]]></description>
      <dc:date>2013-04-21T13:55:00+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Who’s in Poor Taste? Pussy Riot, Schorlemmer or the Luther Cities?</title>
      <link>https://www.fembio.org/english/biography.php/woman/comments/wer-ist-hier-geschmacklos-pussy-riot-schorlemmer-oder-die-lutherstaedte/</link>
      <guid>https://www.fembio.org/english/biography.php/woman/comments/wer-ist-hier-geschmacklos-pussy-riot-schorlemmer-oder-die-lutherstaedte/#When:10:05:00Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[On November 10 the 16 German &ldquo;Luther Cities&rdquo; will decide who should receive their annual award &ldquo;Das unerschrockene Wort&ldquo; (The Bold, Fearless Word), or Luther Prize, to be presented in April 2013. Luther City Wittenberg has nominated the heroic Russian political activists Pussy Riot for the award. But more than a few are opposed to the nomination, and no one more than the prominent theologian Friedrich Schorlemmer, previously a pastor and pro-democracy activist in the GDR and now a publicist.

Schorlemmer and those who share his views reject the nomination because they find Pussy Riot&rsquo;s performances &ldquo;in poor taste&rdquo; and &ldquo;not worthy of a prize.&rdquo; These aesthetes, lacking in feminist sensibility, clearly have had no experience dealing with feminist forms of protest, which are regularly condemned by the rest of the population as being &ldquo;in poor taste.&rdquo; For example, there was the &ldquo;poor taste&rdquo; of declaring publicly that one had had an abortion in the French and German newsmagazine campaigns of ]]></description>
      <dc:date>2012-11-03T10:05:00+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Granny and Nanny in American Politics</title>
      <link>https://www.fembio.org/english/biography.php/woman/comments/granny-und-nanny-im-us-wahlkampf/</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s the height of campaign season in the USA, and not only the presidency but the entire House of Representatives and one third of the Senate seats are up for grabs. One of the most closely watched races is the competition for one of the two Senate seats from Massachusetts. Ted Kennedy had held it for almost half a century before he died; then, thanks to massive financial support from business interests, the Republican Scott Brown won it in an upset election in 2010. Now the Democrats are aiming to reclaim &ldquo;their&rdquo; seat and have nominated a popular, respected and highly qualified candidate: Elizabeth Warren, Harvard law professor, financial expert and the one of the harshest critics of Wall Street and its deceptive machinations. In the wake of the 2008 crash Warren campaigned for the creation of a new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and served as a Special Advisor to the President to oversee its implementation (2010-2011).

It&rsquo;s no surprise that almost no one is hated by ]]></description>
      <dc:date>2012-08-05T23:43:00+00:00</dc:date>
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