[Bridie]

I only just read the first article...

Think of a neo-Nazi and you think of a man with a shaved head, pummeling a foreigner. But that image is outdated, some social researchers say. She may well be a woman -- and a feminist, to boot.

That should increase the credibility of NS then.

One worker at a mobile youth clinic in Ostprignitz, a depressed area of eastern Germany, took a shot at explaining the attraction young women feel toward such right-wing groups.
"The girls want to have fun, they are totally bored -- especially in the countryside," said the worker, who did not give her name. "They are looking for something really attractive. That is the far-right scene."
As part of the far-right, the girls feel strong. They can terrorize people, and have the feeling they are influencing society -- the same thing that draws young men, the worker added.

More propagation of the (patriarchal) myth that women are brain-dead sheep that don't really care about anything of importance like politics, economics, sociology etc. Just another attempt at disempowering women, and now indirectly disempowering right-wing politics via their new found association with supposed brain-dead sheep who are just trying to have a bit of fun.

Personally, I can't see what would so be fun about it. But then, I'm not a female German National Socialist. Perhaps National Socialism is just one big party over there (occasionally interrupted by terrorising people in order to feel strong ).



Really, when one considers the modern emergence of women as a powerful presence in the paid workforce, academia and politics, this throw back to portraying women as brain-dead, passive morons who follow men around in order to feel better about themselves, but never actually have an original idea of their own, is extremely outdated.

If women weren't capable of idealism, a decent standard of intellectualisation or caring about the society they live in then they wouldn't be excelling in these areas as they are today... often to a much higher standard than their male competitors or counterparts are. The proof is in the pudding, as they say.