2023-04-24 22:00:16
Innsbruck (OTS) – Women at the rifle remain taboo among the shooters. The reasons are difficult to understand from the outside. Ultimately, however, the issue concerns us all. In any case, Tyroleans should reconsider the values they represent.
Women march with the Tyrolean riflemen. Not just in the literal sense, when sutlers walk ahead of the officers on festive marches. Female members have one vote in decision-making bodies and chair associations. They are only allowed to put their hands on the gun in a sporting context. That’s a problem. After all, the traditional clubs have taken up the cause of representing a generally valid Tyrolean identity. Apparently, even in 2023, this will still prevent equality between men and women. Shooting volleys during disengagements remains taboo for “they”. Do Tyroleans want to be represented like this? A question that the newly elected federal marketer Kathrin Platzer has to address with her announcement of a “modern role model”.
There is no question that the riflemen make a valuable contribution to society with their 235 companies. However, women are primarily involved in “feminine” areas – supply and catering (marketers with schnapps barrels), looking following the offspring (young shooters and young marketers), care of home, customs and values (from serving at festivals to monument preservation to a flawless appearance in traditional costume) .
The justification for this kind of defensiveness is weak. State commander Thomas Saurer referred to the military origins of rifle shooting in “Tirol Live”. But history teaches us that women always took up arms – they had to. Even in the Austrian Armed Forces – following all, the official partner of the riflemen – women shoot live. It is possible that of the 1,105 sutlers and 508 young sutlers, as Saurer says, not a single one ever expressed the wish to be allowed to march along with their armed male comrades, like their male comrades, in order to be able to experience the feeling of a volley being fired exactly. Would they express this desire at all? The outgoing federal marketer Franziska Jenewein confirms that women don’t want that and “it will always stay that way”. Clear command. Giving women military functions and at the same time making male sutlers socially acceptable once more would not endanger the values of the shooters and would even fuel the much-vaunted openness. The tradition would be maintained more truly than ever – historically both sexes have filled all roles in times of war. With real female shooters, the shooting system might not only grow in terms of its number of members.
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