Right now there is again a lot of the supposed division in society of speeches: compulsory vaccination or not, SUV or bicycle, New Year’s gluttony or calm at the turn of the year? Are people really so implacably facing each other, wedged in verbal trenches? I don’t know, to be honest.
But there are things where society is really divided. Or at least neatly separated along one basic characteristic: biological sex. We learn from an early age: the pink shampoo is for girls, the blue for boys (a good hundred years ago the color drawers were still swapped: boys wore pink, for girls it was sky blue). And at some point it was said: Young women put on make-up, young men don’t. Does it have to be like that?
No, says Manuel Ahlemann, and: “There is no gender for make-up.” The 20-year-old is a trained hairdresser, is currently training at a cosmetics school – and is doing his own make-up in such a way that strangers often, no: actually always mistake him for a woman. This confuses many, the young man knows that too, and therefore makes it clear: He is a man who likes to put on make-up, who likes to have painted nails and long hair. No drag, also no transsexuality. I met Manuel Ahlemann for a portrait – and got to know a person who found himself with make-up, became self-confident and rightly asks: “Why should I hide, dress up, not stand by who I am? ” (SZ Plus)
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