homo teutonicus simplex

Quota for women vote in German parliament next week.

Good Lord, we had to pick this up because it is such a dogged debate, it is truly democratic.

German politicians have been debating about gender equality for a while, and there are the common complaints about unequal pay, about not enough women in top jobs, and so on.

What makes this upcoming vote so interesting is that the current government is a conservative coalition of the free marketeers FDP, the junior partner, and Ms. Merkel's Christian conservative CDU.

Both parties have for the longest time called for self-regulation of the economic players. We know that some examples of successful self-regulation exist, for instance, out of Dickensian and just post-Dickensian England.

There, private industry became a fervent advocate of public sanitation projects, yeah.
The problem with this was, we exaggerate only a little, that so many people were dying that industry was running low on that most prized human asset.

The German social democrats and the Green party may or may not have been aware of the low point at which self-regulation typically kicks in. In short, they ran out of patience and submitted a law that makes quotas for women binding. It also just so happens that general elections are due in September.

With the CDU and FDP in the majority, you might think they will defeat the motion.  But there are some members of the coalition who came forward stating they want to vote in favor of the bill. There might just be enough of them to pass the bill.

The most prominent one is the minister of work and social affairs, Mrs. Ursula von der Leyen.

In the simple world of the German constitution, a member of parliament has free choice of his or her vote, guided only by their conscience. 

The CDU and FDP whips are desperately trying to reign in the free conscience rebels in favor of a free of conscience vote.

And the German mainstream media are licking it up. We checked what the normally decent conservative Frankfurter Allgemeine has to say. The reporters are unfazed, but what a delight the reader comments are:
Treason, says one.
Quota before quality, says Mr. Short'n'Snappy.
Women should advance through performance, not by law, says the next.
Looks like women are just not good enough in their jobs, another one tops this.
Back to the USSR and old East Germany, says male number 5.
A palace intrigue where Ms. von der Leyen is trying to take over the job of Ms. Merkel, says a little voice.

It is maybe too late in the game for the K-landnews to be able to sway the vote towards the endangered German male, homo teutonicus simplex, but...

Here is a slogan we suggest as a rallying cry for the anti-quota movement.

First they came for my penis, now they come for my job. Vote NO on the quota.

[Update] A reader suggested there might be evidence of homo teutonicus simplex being related to homo aryanus exitus or homo aryanus penalis americanis based on cranial morphology with a pronounced tendency to a cube shape (formerly block shape). That's bullshit, really. Now, just read the post, leave us a Happy Click Meal, and get out of my bytes.