Hungarian video to promote having children sparked controversy
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Recently, an infotainment video sparked some controversy on the internet. In the video, Katalin Novák, Hungary’s Minister for Families, tries to provide an answer to how women could be successful and what they should not do to achieve this.
The video was produced by a pro-government social media community, Axióma. It is evident that the video targeted women to promote families having children, as it is the government’s goal to try and counteract the ageing society by encouraging people to have more children.
There might be some issues or rather ambiguous statements in the video, however, that might be easily twisted.
Katalin Novák starts the video by making the parallel to life not being a recipe saying: “I like baking. I rarely diverge from the recipe, […] if I mix the ingredients the appropriate way and order, I consistently get the same results. […] Sadly, life is not like that”. The depiction of the first scene behind the Minister for Families is the kitchen and, according to Human Rights Watch, it is misogynistic propaganda that aims to “drive home the ‘your place is in the kitchen’ message for women”.
Katalin Novák then proceeds to make suggestions about what women could or rather should not do to be able to become successful and to have a fulfilled life. She highlights that everyone’s lives are different, and people living in different conditions have different desires and skills.
The Minister for Families said that “Women should not believe that they have to constantly compete with men and spend every moment of their lives comparing themselves to others, to men.
Women should not need to work in the same position and earn at least as much as men do, and they should not need to choose between having children and their career. Women should not believe that they cannot choose freely and that women cannot achieve fulfilment as a mother by living to care for their families”.
Victorinus Orbanicus the Caveman must be very proud of his minister for primitive life Novák ( I’d rather say Starák… )
Welcome to Orbanistan, the only country in Europe, perhaps in the world, whose government politicians still live in Stone Age.
According to Katalin Novak. If she practiced what she is preaching she should quite her job, give it to a man and go home, go home, get pregnant and stay there and raise hier kids.
Is this woman going to show the good example by practising what she is preaching? I.e. is she going to quit her highly remunerated ministerial post to work exclusively within the perimeter of her kitchen? Obviously not.
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