Overview
- Diakonie practitioners report more young men in school workshops and counseling identifying with Manosphere influencers who promote rigid gender roles and downplay violence.
- Fresh BKA figures show women-hostile crimes rose 73% in 2024, with additional increases in trafficking for sexual exploitation, sexual offenses and domestic violence.
- The organization links these patterns to a normalization of antifeminist attitudes that leads to crossed boundaries, verbally and sometimes physically, said Landespastorin Annika Woydack.
- Diakonie calls for stronger prevention and outreach targeting young men alongside consistent gender-sensitive education in schools.
- The appeal was issued in Hamburg around the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and cites official statistics to underpin its assessment.