Then close your blouse

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Then close your blouse. An outcry against the mania for equality is a non-fiction book published by the journalist Birgit Kelle in 2013 at Adeo Verlag . The book was preceded by the highly acclaimed column of the same name in The European .

column

On the occasion of the sexism debate #aufschrei on January 29, 2013, Birgit Kelle published the column Then close your blouse in the debate magazine The European ! It said, for example: “Perhaps we would have been spared this whole debate if it was not Rainer Brüderle but George Clooney who had been standing at the bar on this ominous evening [...] the whole act gets a whole new twist when men approach fertile soil falls. Then it might have been the story of a hot flirt and Mrs. Himmelreich could have given a real Clooney to her friends for the rest of her life. [...] Where personal sensitivities appear to be a sufficient yardstick to define sexism, the term degenerates into arbitrariness. ”According to the weekly magazine Werben & Sell , the column was the“ Social Media Phenomenon of the Year ”in 2013. The article Dann close the blouse , Kelle then used as the basis for her book published in August 2013.

Contents of the book

In her book, Kelle criticizes the instrumentalization of sexism . Among other things, she rejects so-called "gender politics" and women's quotas . Kelle calls for more masculinity and the recognition of the housewife . In her opinion, there is a need for social improvement in the entire educational policy and in dealing with feminism .

reception

Danuta Szarek wrote a review for Focus Online : “It reads as the title 'Then close your blouse' suggests: entertainingly provocative, polemical, sarcastic. And with a good deal of anger in the stomach towards the Alice Schwarzers of the nation, who punish everyone who 'does not go along with the liberation of women or at least with what they think it is' ”.

Alexander Wallasch wrote in the taz : “'Then close your blouse' has what it takes to enliven a debate dominated by Alice Schwarzer, Bascha Mika or Elisabeth Badinter - and actually become a bestseller. A long overdue one. "

On the private news portal kath.net it was said: “Now Birgit Kelle is deepening her theses in a book that is likely to be bestselling. She doesn't mince her words because she is tired of constantly having to justify her life as a woman and mother. In her opinion, the sexism debate only scratches the surface of the real problem ”.

In Die Presse , Anne-Catherine Simon said: “Now the German has published a book under the same title. The question of sexism plays a secondary role here, the main topic is another. Kelle has four children, stayed at home for them for a long time, had 'incredibly good years' with them - and is tired of apologizing for them. 'Because feeling at least a little bad is the minimum for a housewife and mother in Germany'. "

Barbara Rohrhofer reviewed in the Oberösterreichische Nachrichten : “In her book, Kelle is also directed against the 'dictatorship of feminism', against the 'gender madness' and the 'quota forced happiness' - and receives applause from like-minded people. The result of all their considerations: 'In 2013 we are not getting any closer on the gender issue either. We are still sitting perplexed between the chairs. Men are different, women too. Even several decades of gender mainstreaming cannot change this truism. '"

Dana Schülbe commented in the Rheinische Post : “Kelle keeps coming back to feminism, which she believes has led to the craze for equality. How little she thinks of Alice Schwarzer and her fellow campaigners can be felt on every page of the polemic. The book is thought-provoking, even if you don't want to agree with the author in every point, maybe even in a few places. "

Award

In November 2013, Kelle received the Gerhard Löwenthal Prize for Journalists, published by the Foundation for Conservative Education and Research (FKBF) and the right-wing conservative Junge Freiheit , for her journalistic work .

literature

  • Birgit Kelle: Then close your blouse. An outcry against the mania for equality . Adeo, Asslar 2013, ISBN 978-3-942208-09-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birgit Kelle: Then close your blouse! In: The European , January 29, 2013.
  2. ↑ Christian Gehl: "Then close your blouse". The social media phenomenon of the year . In: Advertise & Sell , February 5, 2013.
  3. ↑ Publication date http://www.adeo-verlag.de/index.php?id=details0&sku=814209
  4. ^ Danuta Szarek: Publicist takes into account feminism and family politics. "Brain or butt - women have to decide what to emphasize" . Focus Online , August 30, 2013.
  5. ↑ Alexander Wallasch : Plea for being a housewife. Mummy makes mobile . In: taz , September 6, 2013.
  6. ↑ Bestsellers suspicious new book: "Then do but the blouse!" . kath.net , August 29, 2013.
  7. ↑ Anne-Catherine Simon: "housewives, ceases to apologize to you!" . In: Die Presse , September 8, 2013.
  8. ↑ Barbara Rohrhofer: New plea for the "only housewife" . In: Oberösterreichische Nachrichten , September 14, 2013.
  9. ↑ Dana Schülbe: The anger of a housewife and mother . In: Rheinische Post , October 23, 2013.
  10. ^ Thorsten Thaler : Birgit Kelle and Karl Feldmeyer receive the Gerhard Löwenthal Prize . In: Junge Freiheit , November 23, 2013.