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The Women's Land Organization of Women (ToT) in Germany does not want to have anything to do with the sister organization of the same name. On Tuesday, she issued a statement. A separation agreement is in preparation. The conflict started in 2010 on Burkafrage. While TdF Germany is demanding a ban, the Swiss organization opposes it. The overflow cascade brought the current campaign of Terre des Femmes Suisse and Aidshilfe Suisse "Sex work is a job – for the rights of sex workers".
Prostitution is nothing but an intolerable exploitation of women, it sounds like Germany. Famous Swiss feminist author Julia Onken supports German criticism. A pragmatic ground of understanding, as TdF Switzerland seeks, does not exist for them: "The bans raise awareness that it is wrong," Onken says. Obfuscation and prostitution are simply incompatible with our social values.
Are there women who do it voluntarily?
Nadine Brändli from TdF Switzerland defends the deviant attitude. TdF Switzerland puts self-determination in its center: "If a woman says she prostitutes herself voluntarily, we can not put her away," she says. The same thing applies to concealment. It is clear to Brändli that it is an ideal idea that is far from being reality everywhere. But with a ban, you avoid women only in public life. Patriarchal structures could not be broken in this way.
For Onken, the opposite is true: "To speak of self-determination in this context is negligent, even discriminatory." Those who read the reports of the affected people quickly realize how much violence is behind both phenomena. We need a clear political signal that Switzerland rejects this. That TdF Switzerland, and with it many other political organizations such as SP women retract from this, brings them back to partisan blinders.
In Switzerland in 2019, there will be a vote to see if the full veil should be banned. Women, in particular, put it in an impasse: if they reject the popular initiative, they betray feminist values. If they agree, it soon follows that they have been instrumentalised by right-wing populists.
Behind the popular initiative for the prohibition of concealment, there is the Egerkinger committee, which is actually on the right. One can not dissuade Onken, even politically independent, to say: "Every woman who thinks independently must come to the same conclusions as me."
Brändli of TdF Switzerland rejects this hypothesis. The Swiss association is committed to women. In dealing with the facial veil, she considers that the path proposed by the Federal Council is timely. It wants to punish those who force women to cover themselves completely. In sex work, the association aims to improve labor legislation for sex workers
Who can keep the name?
The differences between the Swiss and German women's organization broke with the UDC in Switzerland in 2010 first required a ban on concealment. TdF Switzerland is distanced from this. TdF Germany stated its opposite attitude in the spring of 2018 in a position paper.
Organizationally, separation should not be a problem since both clubs are independent and financially independent. However, the name question is not clear. The oldest and most important German club – founded in 1981 with around 2,000 members – is entitled to the club, as reported by the German left-wing daily (TAZ).
Brändli does not want to anticipate the negotiations. She assumes that they will be factual. TdF Switzerland exists since 2003, currently the club counts about 350 members. Christa Stolle, CEO of TdF Germany, can not yet say until when the separation will take place. She should not end up like a mud fight, she points out. There are still a lot of similarities. But the way back is hindered: "We do not share basic feminist values anymore."
(Tages-Anzeiger)
created: 27.07.2018, 21:32
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