category: Germany
Karin from Netherlands/ Germany: “Be like the tick in an animal’s fur: keep biting, so that we don’t forget you’re there!”
Sarah from Germany: Unconsciously, I tried to convince others of my “male” characteristics and of the fact that I was not such a “girlish” girl. I reinforced a world view that presents males as being superior over females.
Natalie from Germany: I sometimes change direction, if one is forbidden. But not the way: I throw my short life into all the folded arms that cross my path.
Irena from Germany: I was born in 1962 in former East Germany and grew up in a small town called Sangerhausen. It was there that I spent a wonderful childhood…
Hannah from Germany: “If you spoon me from behind, I feel like a woman. And I don’t know what I should do with my right arm!”, he says.
Anonymous from Germany: When a client groped me in his presence, and I was too shocked to defend myself, he did nothing. Afterwards he told me that he thought it was awful, but that the customer was weird anyway …
Bianca from Germany: Many men are surprised by the returned compliment. Some laugh, others are confused. Some men find out at that moment, maybe for the first time, how it feels to be reduced to one’s appearance.