Prior to the last general election in Germany, there was a Q&A type format with candidate, now chancellor, Olaf Scholz, regular citizens get to ask their questions. Pensioner from a rural part of East Germany comes on, loves his little garden, gets his probably once in a lifetime chance to ask future chancellor the one question that is really, really important to him - turns out it’s about gender neutral language and that he’s really afraid to speak freely because of that. I was left there wondering what kind of impact this really has on his everyday life,what he thinks might happen to him, not working anymore, sitting in his garden, probably not publishing any academic papers anytime soon.