Photo without women: CDU and CSU experience because of the recording of Häme on the net

At full throttle back into the past. A photo is currently causing a land on land on the same way to look at the outraged snort, twisted eyes or just a tired sigh. To see on it: six middle -aged men who grin into the camera as if they had just been interrupted while telling a joke that they are glad that a photo cannot document it. They sit at a breakfast table in front of a wild mix of muesli with berries (which they certainly only choke down for all the women who are not present in the room – they like it healthy and don’t want to get fat!) And large plates with hearty sandwiches (you need something reasonable).

There they sit: Friedrich Merz, Markus Söder, CDU general secretary Carsten Linnemann, CSU man Martin Huber, ex-transport minister Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) and Thorsten Frei, parliamentary managing director of the Union faction. The gentlemen had met for “close coordination” in the Berlin Konrad-Adenauer-Haus, says Markus Söder. “The new Syrian government is likely to become more diverse than the Union’s negotiation team,” Greens boss Franziska Brantner mocks.

Share of women in the real world: a good 50 percent. A share of women in the room when the CDU and CSU plan the future: zero percent. Even Ulf Poschardt, “Welt” editor-in-chief and notorious as one of the anti-west people of the FRG, tweeted, tweeted: “This photo shows (…) how few large parts of the bourgeois-conservative world have arrived in the present. Something is simply indisputable. And everyone should know that.” In his comments, some injured men’s souls try to discuss: “As long as nobody can show that women have been discriminated against in posts such as general secretary or state group chairman, I don’t care whether only men are sitting there,” it says.

And this unintentionally puts a finger in the wound of the presumed image of the Union. Because of course there are women in the CDU and CSU. At least some. And they also occupy higher items. Some will surely even be represented in the future government, perhaps as Minister of Education. Or family minister. Or women’s representative. But the real “decision -makers”, those who are now discussing the next four years – they are sitting here, and of course these are men. The ladies can later be added as decoration.

You know that. Maybe some still remember the Kohl era. Or pretty much every era in front of it. And when looking at this photo, it is almost noticeable how desperately the depicted time wants to have this time back. When men were still allowed to think that they were makers. Determer. Leader. And the pressure on women through society and politics was still great enough that they left the men in this belief, with invisibly clenched fists. Hach, it was nice. Back then, when you were performing uncomfortable emances, Article 3, Paragraph 2 of the Basic Law, if necessary, with dignified voice, but a tasty wink.

According to the law, women are now allowed to do everything! They only make it so rarely at the top because they are not good enough, don’t negotiate well enough, are not loud enough, are too loud, too loud, too girlish, too well negotiated, too well negotiated, we just don’t want to, we want to make dirty jokes, they should better take care of the children or prepare plates with hearty sandwiches.

The problem in the past is just: it is over. Today there is not only the Internet that is unscrupulously feedback on everything. People have also become more freely, more confident and attentive in the past thirty years when it comes to exclusion and inequalities. The unfortunate photo that Markus Söder shared so proudly with the world was of course not uncommented. “There are more doors than women in this photo,” mocks a user. “Why women allegedly vote mostly left -wing parties or the Greens, In A Nutshell“, someone else comments. And one put a” mouse, do you get us a coffee? “In the mouth.

A picture like this has a predetermined fate today: it becomes a mem. It quickly made the round on the net, with biting comments from the creators:

It is, admittedly, not surprisingly that a group of medieval white men wants to reprimand a world in which everything runs according to their wishes and needs. But especially in the case of Friedrich Merz, the feeling that it is not only the longing for supposedly better past times, alleged conservative ideals and dusty traditions that drives him is not only the longing for supposedly. Perhaps it is especially 16 years in which the country – certainly not perfect, but confidently – was ruled by its own conservative party … but by a woman. One that was respected worldwide and even referred to by foreign media as the most powerful woman in the world. And – who, as you know, did not think of him at all.