Trouble's brewing in Germany. No, it's not the euro crisis; it's the good kind of trouble: Feminism is finding new life in networked voices online. Last week, a German blogger named Maike Hank put out a simple, defiant call to end harassment and daily sexism with her post, "This Is Not Normal." It resonated deeply with many on Twitter, and people like Nicole von Horst started sharing their own stories: "The doctor that patted my ass, as I lay in the hospital after an attempted suicide." That's when Anne Wizorek, founder of the blog kleinerdrei and digital media consultant (and, disclaimer, a very good friend of mine), recognized what was happening, and suggested a hashtag to capture the stories: #aufschrei (#outcry). And then all hell broke loose when an article came out in the magazine Stern stating that Rainer Brüderle, Germany's minister for economics and technology, had allegedly sexually harassed a journalist.
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