Melanie Brinkmann is one, Luisa Neubauer too and Annalena Baerbock anyway. The virologist, the activist and the foreign minister are women – at least in the comment columns of online media and social networks. If displeasure is expressed about something that (not only) these three women express, sooner or later the term, which was once meant to be respectful, will appear. Of course, provided with one of the most important ingredients of digital communication at all: outrage laced with sarcasm.
“Well, the lady is daring!” It is said, for example, when Brinkmann pleads for stricter measures to contain the corona pandemic. The competence of the “nice lady” Neubauer is questioned as regularly as she speaks up publicly. And for some, Baerbock is “the lady who corrected her CV” when she is not being given diminutives that are probably intended to demonstrate superiority, but thanks to her lack of creativity they shake even the harshest critics of Baerbock’s politics.