Rebellious, Uncomfortable, Overconfident Women? with Tara-Louise Wittwer and Clara Fuhrmann

The list of “rebellious” women is long: witch, heretic, shrew, bitch, slut, whore, influencer, IT girl… feminist. What do they have in common? They don’t quite fit the mold. They’re too loud, too angry, too uncomfortable—or simply unwilling to conform. And so they’re labeled.

Tara-Louise Wittwer knows all about such labels. The columnist, speaker, bestselling author (Nemesis Töchter, Dramaqueen, Sorry, but …), and content creator, for example, uses her social media format #tiktoxic to dismantle problematic takes by men, speaking directly to the hearts of many women. Her perspective is contemporary, direct, and angry—and it strikes a chord with women who are fed up and no longer willing to put up with it.

Clara Fuhrmann looks at the “rebellious” woman from a different perspective: As a resident in psychiatry and a freelance artist, she explores the history of the pathologization and marginalization of rebellious women—from hysteria to heretical sects.

Together with host and journalist Özge Asanbayli, they examine the question of how “uncomfortable” women are treated—even to this day. When does resistance become madness, anger become hysteria, and self-determination become a problem? And who actually decides what behavior is considered “normal” for women?

A conversation about angry, troublesome, defiant—and overly self-assured—women—and about why the labels may change, but the mechanisms behind them remain surprisingly consistent.