AfD and feminist women's demands?

“The AfD surprises with demands that sound almost feminist. A ‘poisoned offer’—against the backdrop of a truly reactionary image of women and families, comments Simone Schmollack on Deutschlandfunk Kultur. The cultural segment on the radio.”

With demands for more rights for women and girls and protection from violence, “the party is trying to put on an emancipatory facade: Look, we are paying attention to women and the vulnerable, we are modern, progressive, feminist, and completely different from how some media and parts of politics portray us.” According to Schmollack, this can easily be exposed as a lie.

Statements from AfD politicians, such as “Feminism today is cancer,” convey a very different impression. The image of women presented by the Saxon AfD is also revealing (link below in the comment). It is telling that “the AfD sings the praises of women’s rights the loudest when it comes to defending the blonde German woman against alleged assaults by refugees or migrants, especially when they have a Muslim background.” And, of course, there’s the outcry against the supposed gender madness.

“All the calls for female care may resonate with some AfD supporters. (…) But the time of the alignment of children, kitchen, church—the misogynistic 1950s—is largely over today,” says Schmollack.

Viktoria Koenigs from NDR is also examining the image of women in the far-right party.https://lnkd.in/eyymDgjW

“The AfD expresses clear ideas about the ‘native’ woman in its basic program: she should be traditional, have many children, and be able to take care of the family full-time. There is little room for individuality, as it is said to ‘undermine the family as the value-giving basic unit of society.’ For the AfD, family necessarily means: father, mother, children (nothing to do with queer or patchwork).

Increasing the birth rate in Germany is a core theme for this party. Koenigs states: ‘German families without a migration background should have German children.’ See campaign poster.

Abortion? The AfD calls for a ‘welcoming culture for newborns and unborn children,’ asserting that pregnancy counseling should not be open-ended but should aim for ‘affirmation of the child.’

Gender pay gap? If there is one, it is due to the career choices and part-time work of many women. And the AfD finds a women’s quota ‘humiliating’ for women.”