Analysing feminist responses to the (mainstream) media coverage of the sexual assaults of New Year’s Eve 2015 in Cologne, this article shows how a theoretical concept that is used to frame feminist arguments can influence the strength of those arguments. German-speaking media extensively reported on the large number of sexual assaults against women that happened during that night in Cologne. The dominant narrative in those media reports dwells on the circumstance that the arrested suspects all had a refugee or migrant background, which assisted right-wing politics in re-creating a racist stereotype about male refugees and migrants being a threat to western women. Feminist responses to that media discourse insisted that rape culture was a cross-cultural phenomenon and that media as well as political analyses of the assaults need to take into account an understanding of intersectionality. Based on a content analysis of twenty-five feminist texts about the events of ‘Cologne’, I argue that the application of the concept of intersectionality created contradictions and argumentative voids within the – otherwise strong – feminist arguments because it conflated sexist and racist dynamics, which were both present in the context of ‘Cologne’ but not always intersecting. I further argue that these contradictions unintentionally aided the right-wing co-option of feminist demands concerning ‘Cologne’ and I suggest that the theoretical concept of femonationalism is better equipped to analyse events like ‘Cologne’.

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“科隆”关于交叉性的教训：加强反对右翼联合选择的女权主义论点

本文分析了女权主义者对（主流）媒体对 2015 年科隆新年前夜性侵犯的报道的反应，展示了用于构建女权主义论点的理论概念如何影响这些论点的强度。德语媒体广泛报道了当天晚上在科隆发生的大量针对女性的性侵犯事件。这些媒体报道中的主要叙述集中在被捕嫌疑人都有难民或移民背景的情况，这有助于右翼政治重新创造关于男性难民和移民对西方女性构成威胁的种族主义刻板印象。女权主义者对媒体话语的回应坚持认为强奸文化是一种跨文化现象，媒体以及对袭击的政治分析需要考虑到对交叉性的理解。基于对关于“科隆”事件的 25 篇女权主义文本的内容分析，我认为交叉性概念的应用在女权主义论点中产生了矛盾和争论的空白，因为它将性别歧视和种族主义动态混为一谈，它们都出现在“科隆”的语境中，但并不总是相交。我进一步认为，这些矛盾无意中助长了右翼对“科隆”的女权主义要求的选择，我认为女性民族主义的理论概念更适合分析像“科隆”这样的事件。