Rachida Dati: Excitement about the French Minister of Justice
Well, I just do not get it: A woman rushes through the road at last, full of checkers, women's rights activists have been struggling through the thicket of conventions for decades - and this evacuation squad is blowing into group wedges. Since French Minister of Justice Rachida Dati bravely romped through her first postnatal office day just five days after the birth of her daughter Zohra last week, she is being bombarded with the heaviest cannon women have to disassemble a sexmate in the depotShe was a) an emotional cold career machine, b) a bad mother and c) a traitor to the women's movement. Respect, so concentrated, the cargo rarely comes!
At the same time, it was agreed to find Dati unrestrictedly great, even celebrating it as a symbol of successful emancipation. For example, because before her no French stateswoman has laid down such a fast-paced laundering career - from the problem area of the suburbs right into the center of power of the Elysée Palace. Or because she kept the father of her child a secret, despite the pressure of the public. "I have a complicated private life," said Dati only - just for this sentence, my single-girlfriends would like to invite you as a guest of honor for the next party.
But now another wind blows. Because it works - Attention! - no more about making children, but about childbearing and about educating. And on this issue, the public condemnation machinery is traditionally really hot. "Dati undermines the fight for maternity protection and makes other mothers a guilty conscience," accuse her French feminists. And the German midwives association Unkt: "This can have dire consequences for mother and child ..."
Girls, relax! Firstly, Dati and her daughter are certainly better off than the majority of single mothers. And second, despite her ministerial post, Dati is still a private person. As such, she may - in consultation with her doctor - decide for herself how to shape her pregnancy and motherhood. "My stomach is mine" - was not that the slogan?
But I had to laugh the most at the pangs of conscience that Dati supposedly causes among all the other mothers. Was not something confused here? "WAAAS? SOOO, you want to work again early?" My colleague M had to listen to, for example, when she was back at her desk after five months (not days!). "I would NOT expect my child to do that!" Eventually, M. was tired of the constant justification and only stranger to strangers, she had "exposed for about a year" ... Me as a not-yet-but-maybe-sometime-mother makes Dati in any case courage. "Pregnancy is not a disease," she once said. I really hope so: motherhood also not.
