This is a picture of the new German ministry for interior and "heimat" affairs and their state secretaries. See how there is not one woman?
WTF.
#heimatministerium #CSU
@pinkprius
To be fair, you don't know from a picture how they identify.
@frankiesaxx @pinkprius I don't know all of them, but they are doing regressive conservative politics and I don't care about their identity. That's just not the issue here, its about politicians making decisions that are harming other people.
@0x11de784a
Sorry, I must have misunderstood. I thought you were talking about gender representation. Which, in my defense, is understandable given your OP didn't actually mention anything else. ;)
@pinkprius
@0x11de784a @pinkprius
I also think conflating conservativism with man people is toxic to women people. The expectation that just by having more women people it will somehow fix toxic conservative politics puts that burden of change on the women people.
@frankiesaxx @0x11de784a
The way I meant to say it was, that in this ministry, through patriarchic structure and oppression and not by pure chance a ministry is filled with macho men. And I don't like that.
@pinkprius @frankiesaxx @0x11de784a over here in UK when Thatcho was MP her Cabinet reduced many rights/benefits to women and families, Theresa May is no better and she is only in power due to a pact with Arlene Foster who is a conservative Christian (so very likely to try and promote traditional gender rôles, even if she doesn't want a hard border after Brexit). Also the right wing across Europe target (cishet) women by arguing "the migrants are competing for resources with *your* children".