Herr von Heesen, what is the price of patriarchy? There are two answers to this. The price of our system, which is still shaped, ruled and represented by men, can be seen on a small scale in millions of dramatic individual fates. And on a large scale to economic damage in the billions.

In your current book, you focus on the financial damage. Toxic male behavior harms everyone, girls and women, boys and men. We urgently need to talk about these individual fates. And for that to finally happen, I chose the language of patriarchy and capitalism: money.

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