BEATRICE FRASL IM GESPRÄCH MIT KRISTINA LUNZ

"De-romanticize yourselves!" Book premiere - Literature LIVE

Hardly anything is romanticized more than romantic love ...Love - for centuries it has been passionately sung about in songs, praised in literature and glorified in films, even in its most toxic forms. Despite its volatility and usually relatively short duration, we have made romantic love a central model of social organization. Romantic love is what is constantly hammered into our brains from an early age as an indispensable component of happiness and fulfillment. Yet its reality is anything but romantic - especially for women.

... hardly anything deserves this romanticization less! Heteroromantic relationships form the framework for women taking on two thirds of unpaid work, earning less and slipping into dependency. Unmarried women without children, on the other hand, are the happiest and healthiest population group. They have a higher life expectancy than married women, while married men live longer than unmarried men. Romantic relationships with men harm women: healthwise, emotionally and economically.

A provocative rant from a feminist perspective. In this great essay, Beatrice Frasl addresses these injustices and pleads for a rethink. After all, romantic love is a patriarchal indoctrination campaign whose narrative has prevailed for centuries. How good that we don't need it. That we can decide for ourselves what love means to us.

"Entromantisiert Euch!" will be published by Haymon Verlag on 24 April 2025, 150 pages