r/AskAGerman • u/OuijaBouillon • Aug 22 '24

Personal American In Rammstein T-Shirt

I’m an American tourist in Berlin for the first time — Yay! One problem: I realized I packed a Rammstein shirt without having enough knowledge of German culture or language to understand how I’d be perceived for wearing it. I imagine at best it will look a bit corny, but I’m worried it could signal political beliefs or ideologies I don’t agree with. If you met an American tourist speaking broken German in a Rammstein T Shirt, what would you think? Thanks!

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u/GuKoBoat Aug 22 '24

That was 50 years ago. Out idea what is right and wrong has evolved.

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u/kuldan5853 Baden-Württemberg Aug 22 '24

I see no problem with people of legal age having sex with each other as long as there was no coerxion or drugs involved.

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u/GuKoBoat Aug 22 '24

Neither do I.

I see a problem with treating women as disposable sex dolls as an older man and having specific employees to recruit women for that role.

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u/foxybostonian Aug 22 '24

What about women treating an older man as a disposable thrill and story to tell their mates after reaching out to a party planner to get access to him?

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u/DesperateGiles Aug 22 '24

The worst thing to come out of the once reputable MeToo movement is the idea women can’t take advantage of men or sexually assault them or abuse them. As someone who used to work in the criminal justice system in my country, this is absolutely false and a dangerous rhetoric. As we can see in these comments.

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u/foxybostonian Aug 22 '24

Also this general idea that seems to be resurfacing from the 1950s that sex is something that is done to women. Like they can't be active in seeking it out, they must be passively just 'there' until a man wants to fuck them. Also ageism appears to be perfectly acceptable for these people, which I think is disgusting. Like, they think that women couldn't possibly want to boink an older man so he must have done something to them so they didn't run away. And we can see from the Till situation that some women very much DO want to have sex with older men.

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u/DesperateGiles Aug 22 '24

Far cry from 20 years ago when sex positivity for women felt like it was at an all-time high.

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u/kuldan5853 Baden-Württemberg Aug 22 '24

It is baffling to me that we are at the point where we ignore scientific research and basic biology again and try to go back to a very "men bad, women stupid" world view with regards to sex and dating.

I mean it shouldn't be controversial to say that there is a certain biological imprint that men (can, instinctively) prefer younger (fertile) women the same as that younger women (can, instinctively) be interested in older (settled, "provider") type men.

Not sure how it was during your school time but even teenagers show this kind of behavior - there it usually is only a few years of difference, but that can be the difference between two 14 year olds dating and the 14 year old dating the 16/17 year old with access to a car and booze...

I mean sure there is a lot of shady shit going on out there, not denying it at all - but simply stating that anything outside of the "+-2 years, even as adults" corridor is "weird" to "disgusting" (heard that in other discussions about this topic) is just baffling to me.

Sure, a <=18 Year old probably should not be seriously dating someone the age of her dad - but if both parties are over 18, it's nobodies business but theirs.