Letter to the Editor – Sounding ore, ringing bells
With increasing astonishment, I read the article by the female duo Daniela Fritz, interviewer, and the gender researcher Franziska Schutzbach on the “exhaustion of women” (“Volksblatt”, May 30). I am 79 years old and the only time I feel exhausted is when I go to bed late, usually through my own fault. That wasn’t the reason why I rubbed my eyes when I read it: how long ago was it that the woman’s husband “was able to forbid gainful employment”? I haven’t experienced it anymore. It is said that “caring as a supposed part of the female nature, an image given to women early” ends in exhaustion. Because this IS also done “automatically for love”, it would not count as work and does not have to be paid. I, too, had dedicated myself to the zeitgeist struggle for women’s rights, educational opportunities for everyone and thus female independence. Women, children, animals, but also men should not be exploited. The subject of caring is a special category. Caring is what holds the world together at its core. Caring in every bird’s nest and in every household expresses life and love. Yes, women still think about “what to give their aunt for her birthday” in the evening in bed, and they also ask themselves what they could do to make their family members most happy with the party, whether they have prepared the right clothes for the school child, what Her husband probably doesn’t tell her what to cook tomorrow and that the young dog would piss on the carpet. What’s wrong with it? There is an incredible amount of banal, bad things, trouble, suffering and love in the world. It’s nonsense to say that men “do fun things like going to the zoo in their day” and aren’t capable of anything else. And if so, then it’s also nice to experience completely different things with your father than with your mother. Nobody should forget their own life out of worrying about others. But if being “gender researcher” means it’s all about justice, privilege, models, choice, demands, the right to… and the like, and never mentioning the word love, or at most examining it as something abusive, then everyone is Efforts like “sounding ore and clanging cymbal” “then it would be of no use to me”. (Apostle Paul to the Corinthians).
Loretta Federspiel, Werthsteig 9, Mauren