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March 20, 2016 2:57 PM Subscribe
The Tough Legacy of Ulrike Meinhof
“I think there’s a very common narrative about women being motivated by sexual or emotional dependence on men,” Katharina Karcher, a research associate at the University of Cambridge, told me. She was “shocked” at similarities between media coverage of Meinhof and Beate Zschäpe, a member of the far-right National Socialist Underground that committed a series of murders of immigrants between 2000 and 2007.
In 1968 the feminist movement was roaring ahead in Western nations worldwide. Women in America were protesting beauty pageants, burning bras and marching for equality.
Historical accuracy note: Bra burning is a myth.
posted by jedicus at 5:18 PM on March 20, 2016 [6 favorites]
Historical accuracy note: Bra burning is a myth.
posted by jedicus at 5:18 PM on March 20, 2016 [6 favorites]
2,000 words of groping and gawping and the blind man still can't adjust to the fact of the elephant: She was a fool.
posted by Diablevert at 7:08 PM on March 20, 2016 [4 favorites]
posted by Diablevert at 7:08 PM on March 20, 2016 [4 favorites]
The black of her open neck and thick, matted hair contrast against dead, cornsilk skin. It is, perhaps, a postmortem render of the Manichean worldview that Meinhof had killed for in life. Her true identity, however, is not so black and white.Mein Gott. It should be a crime to torture prose like that.
posted by Halloween Jack at 8:55 PM on March 20, 2016 [6 favorites]
Pretty much horrible article. Not very well fact checked.
Just one example: the photo the author describes in the bit Halloween Jack quotes is, I'm pretty sure, Gudrun Ensslin (Warning: Photo of dead people) who used a speaker cable to kill herself, hence the open neck.
posted by ojemine at 2:03 AM on March 21, 2016 [1 favorite]
Just one example: the photo the author describes in the bit Halloween Jack quotes is, I'm pretty sure, Gudrun Ensslin (Warning: Photo of dead people) who used a speaker cable to kill herself, hence the open neck.
posted by ojemine at 2:03 AM on March 21, 2016 [1 favorite]
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