Men’s consultant: “The car is like knight armor around the man”

For some people, the car has been an enemy image for a long time: too loud, too big, too dangerous, especially in the city, the criticism. Hardly anyone speaks about the gender issue in the problem, says Boris of Heesen, economists and men’s consultants from Germany. Because it is especially men who dominated the streets with their oversized bodies. And not only there: also in transport policy and in the automotive industry, the threads are still mainly drawing, writes von Heesen in his new book Man at the wheel: How the Patriarchate blocks the traffic turnaround.