However, the women’s rights activist directed the conversation towards social media influencers who, in her opinion, engage in propaganda. “The young women hang on their every word for eight hours a day. (…) They’re totally stupid,” he complains Alice Schwarzer (83) and is from Sandra Maischberger captured: “Well, of course they see it differently. So the young women who are also influencers say that we are also emancipated.”

Alice Schwarzer: “They’re heading straight into the dead end”

According to Schwarzer, the influencers who earn good money from this are “also relatively emancipated”. Then share it Women’s rights activist Not only against the influencers’ followers, but also against what they see as false ideals of beauty. “The girls who hang on their every word are heading straight into a dead end. They don’t learn to take life seriously. What is the meaning of life? Yes, what is that supposed to be, the meaning of life: to have smooth skin? We know that it will pass one day. When you’re in your mid-40s you throw a cloak on it. Then it’s no longer of great value.”

“They look frightening,” says Schwarzer about certain ideals of beauty

The moderator slows Schwarzer down again and raises the question of whether women can’t “have injected lips and still see life intelligently.” “Probably yes. But it’s not nice,” replies the 83-year-old. Schwarzer repeats that she finds these ideals of beauty “terrible”. She also has the feeling that some women have lost their sense of reality: “They look frightening! You can’t eat properly, you can’t kiss properly. It’s all nonsense. No, as a young woman you can safely assume that you are attractive with your natural lips.”

When Maischberger reveals to her that men also inject themselves “in their lips, in their cheeks,” Schwarzer reacts irritably: “Is that true? That’s depressing. That’s really bad. If we even make men a joke, then we’re lost!”