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Green MP Henfling: "Now is not so bitchy"
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How many times have you heard sexist jokes in your career?
Anyone who asks this question to politicians from different parties from different regions of Germany will get very different answers.
Many people have their own ideas about what sexism is - and what a joke is.
A CDU city councilor from Saxony says: She can laugh at jokes like Christian Lindner's.
Lindner had said when the FDP General Secretary Linda Teuteberg passed that they had "started the day together" about 300 times during their term of office.
And after a break from art, he added: "I talk about our daily, morning phone call about the political situation. Not what you think now."
Lindner later apologized.
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Linda Teuteberg, Christian Lindner (April 2019)
Photo: Britta Pedersen / DPA
An SPD mayor from North Rhine-Westphalia says: She is already too old for sexist slogans.
A CSU member of the Bavarian state parliament says: In parliament, she only ever received compliments.
A young CDU politician from a federal state in the east says: Of course she has heard sexist sayings, but she does not want to speak openly about them.
Then her political career would be over.
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