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Column by Sibylle Berg: My wish for the new year

2022-01-01T07:41:47.105Z


What if each just left the other alone? Then we could all be happy at last. Oh, it would be a nice year 2022.


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A new Year.

Congratulations on that.

As every December 31st, I was asked by powers greater than myself what I would like to see in this new year.

It has to be something realistic.

So there is no abolition of the transport fee or a fair tax for capitalists.

Let's do something simple: That no one in the world considers itself to be the norm, and that everyone leaves the others alone.

That sounds like a very small, humble wish, but the effects would be overwhelming.

Anyone could believe what they want.

Design the front yard as it wants.

It doesn't have to teach others.

Correct, yell around.

Wave your arms.

What a calm in the media when employees can get back to the good old values ​​like research and no longer provide agency reports with headlines begging for clicks, which very often evaluate and condemn.

People could walk around with their skin color without being classified.

Categories like men and women would no longer matter because all the attributions and sexist restrictions would have disappeared.

Because women no longer take place as deviations from the norm, just like queer people.

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Let's pause for a moment to make the matter more vivid.

Some time ago Madonna posted pictures of herself on her Instagram account.

How useful this is in general should be completely irrelevant.

At the same time, the sequel to the series "Sex in the City" appeared.

Twenty years later, or no matter how much.

Both of the world's major events were followed by an outcry on social and media and a debate (that is today when people get upset) as if North Korea had fired a few sound rockets.

The focus was on the age of the protagonists.

That wasn’t ok.

Presumably because male and female commentators have internalized the patriarchal view of the fuckability of women's bodies (neutrally) in such a way that it has robbed them of their minds.

Hardly anyone had the idea that a person who is read as a woman, on the one hand, neither wants to be mated nor, on the other hand, has an impact on their lifetime.

Organisms age.

Insane process.

If we stick to the bodies read by women, then, despite all the bodypositivity images and the allegedly courageous influencers who show the normal state of 80 percent of female skin, which has been defined as a disease, hardly anything has changed.

It is still a beneficial exception when female bodies are just there.

As in the examples of female artists, as a program showed very well, or the art of Teresia Vittuci on behalf of many - who just look like people who make good art.

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In 2022, everything that restricts our lives so incredibly will disappear. No one will have to function in the assumed expectations of others any more. Talk in ready-made sentences, people can wear what they want, they can put on make-up or leave it alone, and it doesn't matter what biological gender they were born with. Because no expectations can be derived from it. You can love whoever you want, or let it be. You can move as you like, do sports or not. Everything is fine, except to cheat, curse, insult others. Origin and way of life are sandwiches, they say nothing. The only thing that becomes important to another person is whether he or she is comfortable hanging out with certain people.When the bullshit about evaluating others is through, you can finally turn back to a proper topic. The class struggle, for example.

Happy new year.

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