I am living there and I agree with you 100%. I also would like to stress that no, there is no huge, scary mob of brown-skinned men harassing women here all the time, as some commenters on here claim. I have only ever been catcalled and harassed during my time in Eastern Germany, in a city with hardly any immigrants at…

They’re just going to keep filing delays until they can credibly claim that Cosby is to ill to be tried.

So rather than dealing with male violence, let’s tighten borders. Right.

lol at you both coming here to troll jezebel and instead just arguing amongst yourselves

Omg yes!

Sounds like a Star Wars villain. Looks like Virginia Woolf after a bender.

from my perspective, it’s always the same comment: two things can be true at the same time in our reality.

Based on the reliable reports I’ve read (BBC, Guardian, Der Spiegel), the perpetrators are not believed to be recent refugees, but they were mostly north African men who have robbed and pickpocketed commuters in the past. They used the cover of a large crowd to molest women. Most of the sexual assaults were of the…

If you are an expat you should learn the language of the country you immigrated to. That’s not an aggressive demand, it’s kind of normal to expect that. I had to learn English to live in New Zealand and if I move to Japan I will have to learn Japanese. And if you need to take a break from language learning because of…

If you chose to live in a country it’s only decent to learn the language of said country.

Very well said and I hope this gets ungreyed! I wish they would change the clickbaity and factually wrong “1000 men did this!” headline but, well, it’s Gawker, so probably won’t happen.

In the light of events, Cologne’s Mayor Reker thought this would be a good thing to say to the media today, to try to defend Cologne against understandably queasy visitors deciding to cancel their plans to attend the city’s upcoming carnival days.

I know everyone here will go on on about how it’s the same everywhere and all that, but it simply is not true.

It’s not actually 1000 offenders. 90 women have come forward, and the offenders came out of a group of roughly 1000 men that were throwing fireworks at each other on the plaza in front of the station. They don’t know how many offenders there actually were, but it’s not 1000. Being from Cologne myself, I have followed…

Hi, normal lurker, first time commenter, and German.

At some point (hopefully) we’ll seriously start talking about why men are fucked up.

This isn’t an immigration issue; this is a male issue. See also: rape culture; patriarchy; misogyny; domestic violence; crime statistics; sexual assault statistics; gun violence statistics...

I genuinely hope she started wondering was hasn’t gone into his butt. A much shorter list, I am sure.

Amen, sister. Almost 32 and still baby-free, thanks to my fear of penises as a teenager, and a free supply of slut pills as an adult. THANKS OBAMA.

EXACTLY. Once you’re old enough to both have careers and lives before meeting I can see having things in common and to talk about.