Germany has a holiday devoted to women doing whatever they want
Women's Carnival Day encourages women to assert their power through customs like snipping men's ties
(Credit: AP/Diether Endlicher)
This article originally appeared on GlobalPost.
Carnival festivities kicked off on Thursday throughout Western
Germany’s Rhineland region with a celebration of women:
“Weiberfastnacht.”“Weiberfastnacht,” or Women’s Carnival Day, marks an unofficial holiday in towns along the Rhine like Mainz, Cologne, and Dusseldorf, where ladies are given the key to the city by the Lord mayor and have free reign for the remainder of the day. Why can’t every day be Weiberfastnacht day?
Thousands of women in vibrant, multi-colored costumes descend upon town centers for the celebration. The popular event encourages women to assert their power through customs like symbolically storming town halls, snipping off men’s ties below the knot, and compensating them with a festival kiss or “Butzie.” International delegates at a conference in Dusseldorf wearing business attire were reportedly warned to be wary of women with scissors if they ventured into the streets, according to The Daily Mail.
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