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March 20, 2016 2:57 PM

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.

posted by frimble (5 comments total)

synchronous coincidence: last night i watched children of the revolution (2010), which interviews meinhof's daughter and the daughter of japanese red army member fusako shigenobu.
posted by p3on at 3:45 PM on March 20, 2016 [2 favorites]

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]

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]

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]