Former ZDF presenter Gerster on gender anger: "It's actually the old white man"

The mini breaks after job titles with which she moderated were too much for some: the journalist Petra Gerster talked about experiences with men in her age cohort.

Frankfurt - Anyone who currently wants to break up a previously peaceful dinner party should throw one of the following topics into the group: climate protection, new mobility - or gender.

Dispute is guaranteed.

A language that makes men and women equally visible is still the slightest problem of the three for many Germans.

A current conversation between the Catholic News Agency (KNA) and TV journalist Petra Gerster is therefore interesting.

She changed during ZDF presentations with an audible pause in speaking.

And therefore received “bitterly angry” letters.

By whom?

"90 percent of them were men, and of them, I would say, around 90 percent were over 65 years of age," the KNA quoted the 66-year-old who previously moderated the "heute" journal (ZDF).

Hate letters about gender: "It's actually the old white man"

“It is actually the old white man who fears for the last remnant of his privileges and sees his skins swim away,” Gerster continued in the KNA conversation.

Men also benefit from gender-equitable writing and speaking, she is convinced, because it makes society “more open and colorful”.

The conversation with Gerster took place on the currently running Frankfurter Buchmesser.

Gender equitable language is also discussed in publishing houses.

Writer and critic Elke Heidenreich (whose recent appearance on “Lanz” caused a sensation) fueled the debate in the summer: “This is all lying shit,” she said in a podcast at the end of May.

She couldn't stand "messing up the language like that".

This “feminist fuss” is “hysterical”.

Current survey on gender: "There were a lot of verbal derailments"

According to a recent gender survey, the majority of Germans reject gendering.

In the representative survey 2398 people nationwide were interviewed.

65 percent felt that “the current gender debate was not well conducted”.

More than three quarters of all over 40-year-olds would “find an official gender guideline wrong” - around half of those questioned still agreed with this statement among younger people.

The group with the most women in favor of gender is female, lives in West Germany with a university degree and is between 30 and 45 years of age, reports Rüdiger Maas, head of the study.

“During our survey we received a lot of hostility.

There were a lot of verbal lapses in the comment fields. "