There's no shortage of problems in the world right now.

That doesn't mean that you shouldn't create new ones - in order to be able to forget the others better.

That's why we're pulling up a message today that actually lacks the necessary relevance.

It's about the Munich Oktoberfest, more precisely about the motif on the festival mug, which the Oktoberfest hosts have now presented.

The comic-like representation essentially consists of the jugs of the marquee, which are carried by a woman who, because of her décolleté, emphasized by the dirndl, would have been described as “buxom” in the past.

Timo Frasch

Political correspondent in Munich.

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Christian Schottenhamel, spokesman for the Oktoberfest innkeepers, finds the motif "cheerful, optimistic and life-affirming", but the innkeeper reckoned without the innkeeper.

In any case, the “SZ”, which is not entirely unimportant for Munich, wrote that it was “hard to imagine” that the idea for the motif designed by illustrator Rudi Skukalek came from a woman.

It is condensing into a traditional role model that "hardly anyone would have taken offense at in 1962".

Quite different in 2022: the green Wiesn city councilor Anja Berger said in a “personal conversation” with the “SZ” that she would like “that this deep décolleté is not always taken, but maybe something more diverse”.

It's about "that women are treated with respect at the Wiesn and that this is not carte blanche because I believe that the waitresses also have certain experiences there".

Discrimination or body positivity?

Respect is, as we say today, “right and important”, just as right and important as the “unity and determination” of the West, also when it comes to feminism.

But we have always understood feminism to mean that it would be even nicer if women now had to hide their décolleté just so that men and possible aggressors of the opposite sex do not get the wrong idea.

Of course, you could also have a very thin woman in a dirndl advertise the Oktoberfest, or even a man - but aren't they pampered enough on the catwalks and in real life?

A completely normal woman with a double chin is finally presented on the Festkrug, whose rosy facial expression radiates body positivity through and through and who seems to understand her body as a sensual being - and then again it's not right.

The critics should rather take a look at the current European Women's Football Championship: We have - with enthusiasm!

– followed almost all previous games and only saw young, athletic bodies.

Which image of women should be conveyed in a beautiful way?