I assume that this might be something the C's called "more crazyness to come". The Hashtag #allmaletreesaretrash already tells it all. The article is in german.
The headline:
In vielen Städten stehen vor allem männliche Bäume. Das ist ein Problem. Besonders für Allergiker und alle, die etwas gegen Sexismus haben.
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In many cities, the trees are mainly male. That is a problem. Especially for people with allergies and those who have something against sexism.
far left newspaper article against male trees
the article:
Masculinity can be problematic, toxic: dominance behaviour, exclusionary power structures, the assumption that everything that is not male should be subordinate. Masculinity is particularly problematic when it occurs collectively. Many of us men have recognized this. Things are only slowly changing. At least we're talking about it.
But what about trees? We've learned that..: They talk too. This goes beyond scent messages and mushrooms, which run through the ground like a kind of fiberglass net. Some believe trees even have a memory. A tree expert told the Osnabrücker Zeitung: Trees have their own problems. They can solve them together. I say: trees have at least one problem that we have too, and that is sexism, botanical sexism. Do trees talk about it? Or is what they're doing down there in the ground some kind of loose room talk?
It is often the case that discourses spill over from the USA to Germany. That's the same here. The US-American gardener Tom Ogren has created the theoretical basis and found out We humans are to blame for sexism, even botanical sexism, and we suffer from it.
One day Ogren went for a walk in Sacramento, California. The weather was certainly good, and Ogren, whose wife suffers from asthma and bad hay fever, looked at the trees. Startled, he stopped (perhaps) and realized: All men!
The thing about trees is that they can be male, female or both. Female blossoms turn into fruits, male blossoms take care of pollination.
Ogren researched: In the 1940s, the US Department of Agriculture recommended planting mainly male trees in cities because they made less rubbish (i.e. seeds and fruit) - easier to clean up the streets. Especially after the great Dutch elm disease at the end of the 1960s, the empty spaces were filled with male trees.
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If you ask me, the article shows clearly the lefts problem to acknowledge what nature truely is. They cannot see it through their veil of ideology. But if you are able to open your eyes you will realize that nature is by no means nitpicking, it is lavish, gives in abundance - and it works out. They don't see this.
And another thing to read from the article: The unwillingness to look for causes. Not once the question WHY so many peeps are allergic to pollen, just the simple fact that they are justifies killing all male trees for them. Which is a craziness in itself I do not need to explain.
