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The hate spills through the Internet. The goal: Conchita Wurst - the drag queen from Austria, who won the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 with the song "Rise like a Phoenix" . A woman with a beard ? Many can not handle this and try to destroy this fake figure with caustic comments. One would like to be ashamed of the ground, of the wickedness and stubbornness of these people.
Red light, a golden radiant dress, coal-black shiny hair, a look from fantastically intense eyes - and the dark full beard . It was an impressive sight that Conchita Wurst offered at the ESC. And the moment in which Europe began to split: the people who can not stand the sight of Conchita, those who do not care about her appearance, and those who like this very well-done provocation and applaud her loudly.
Hatred and malice spread on the internet
"I find it a joke that something like this may appear on public television. Little children see something and a world collapses for them. They do not yet understand the bizarre art of travesty. "This is just one of many nasty comments that gather on the Conchita Facebook page. And it is one of the most hypocritical. If anyone cares if Conchita Wurst wears a beard, it's probably children. As a rule, they are not as deadlocked in social thinking patterns as adults. Children can find the look just as nice or ugly as adult people. But they are more seriously disturbed by the sight of man-eating monsters, fierce wolves with red-hot eyes, and witches with glaring eyes and bony-clawed claws.
"Come down, you hater, " you want to call. It is almost unbearable in what a shameful way so many unbelievable people hack at this person who deliberately chose to act as a man-woman. Privately, Conchita is a young man. Tom Neuwirth is just 24 and actually much too young to carry as much anger as he obviously does. It is this anger that brought Conchita to life. And this anger has arisen because young Tom was so despised and cut down by society for his homosexuality that he found no other way to deal with it. When we see his art-i conchita, we look into the manifestation of hatred and fear in our society.
It is fearful that deviations from norms will collapse the overall social construct and thus our livelihood. We look into the eyes of a young man who fortunately was strong enough to turn all the injuries into a personal victory. Which is of course a provocation, for all the people who do not dare to stand for who they are. Hide the alleged blemish like flabby bellies, unsightly skin or hair on the back shameful, so as not to attract attention and be killed by the mob.
Yes, all that is difficult for a child to explain. But children are probably better off not learning about how bad people can become insecure. Especially nice is this comment of a mother to the point: "My daughter asked me at the beginning of the performance, why this Conchita looks like (apparently she was also unsure) and I said:" Apparently you like the style. My daughter shrugging: "Aha, well, if you like it." And that was the end of it. I wish that my children go through life without prejudice. I do not want them to judge purely by visual criteria at the first meeting, I want them to ALWAYS look behind the façade in everything and everything - maybe sometimes carefully and cautiously, but always question it. I want them to be independent thinking people. And I admit, I'm bursting with pride that they've evolved that way and reacted quite unconcernedly to Conchita's performance. "
Really bad are the effects of intolerance
Dear Hater, get together, tell your children that Conchita Wurst wears a beard and dress because she likes it so much - and be happy that a young man is fighting for your freedom to show you more the way you actually do are. And as your children get older, explain that it can be that a man feels like a woman and a woman as a man, that men fall in love with men and women in women. And that's nothing bad about it. Only the effects of the intolerance of the people are bad. Love, let love and rejoice that so much more is possible these days than a few years ago.
Video: The performance of Conchita Wurst at the Eurovision Song Contest 2014.
