Echoes of the Third Reich
German women should be encouraged to "stay at home and bring three or four children into the world". Born female, this is their destiny. It would certainly solve some state problems. Which was likely what motivated the Nazis in their ideology to construct the perfect human and the perfect human community, through the perfection of a systematized gender-perfected social contract.Above all, members of both genders should represent the body beautiful. Perfect Aryan specimens; with broad muscular bodies, blonde hair and blue eyes. The very antithesis in aesthetic appearance, in point of fact, to Adolf Hitler. Who, in his wisdom, thought how appealingly useful social engineering would be in constructing the perfect society.
To that end he was concerned with healthy living -- no alcohol, no tobacco, no drugs, no illicit liaisons, respect for authority, and a circumscribed lifestyle for law-abiding Germans on their way to perfecting humanity. He would not have approved of fast-food for its nutritional deficiencies leading to obesity and other indices of poor health.
"Kinder, Küche, Kirche" was the ideal condition for women in the Third Reich. Women to be tethered to the home, spending their time exclusively in the kitchen preparing wholesome foods for the many children they would bear; leaving home only to attend church. Which institution in fact, the Third Reich didn't seem all that fond of, to begin with.
So isn't it rather amusing that the Roman Catholic archbishop of Cologne, Cardinal Joachim Meisner, 79, now advocates that very same pertinent line of reasoning. That is his statement, that German women should be advised to "stay at home and bring three or four children into the world", rather than relying on immigration to increase Germany's population.
Germany now boasts Europe's lowest birth rate. In an effort to attract more workers it has turned to countries hit by economic crisis to augment its failing skilled labour workforce. And how's this for a response to the avuncular churchman's views: "Age doesn't always bring wisdom", commented Annegret Laakmann, president of the Catholic group Women's Dignity.
Labels: Germany, Sexism, Social-Cultural Deviations
posted by Pieface @ Saturday, May 25, 2013
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