Since I made the effort to translate an entire article from El Pais I'll post. Sexism is and how "in the very Catholic Spain" seems to have a better idea about it. The translation I did for fellow South Feminism (sometimes quarrel with that as well), and probably find it there. In the case of blunders correct me.
Tribune: Amparo Rubiales
The Neomaschilismo
We never thought, when he chose to build our democracy, of all the principles of freedom on those and equality, which for us would be more difficult to achieve the second, and that the fear of freedom that Erich Fromm wrote it was nothing compared to the fear of equality, most widespread and entrenched.
Those who defended the "values" of patriarchal society, as they did in so many ways, they were collectively called "sexist". These began to be judged in a negative way, and those who described themselves as apparently began to fall. But since the exchange rate has begun to give more concrete, they have begun to formulate new arguments that apparently do not question the principle of equality, but I question the application, with ideas that, in some instances, may even seem reasonable. Differs from that in spite of always, ultimately, aim at achieving the same result: the subjugation of women.
Miguel Lorente, in a book entitled Los nuevos hombres nuevos. Los miedos de siempre en tiempo de igualdad , argues that the male gender has hatched new plots to defend their position of power, based on alleged problems that the incorporation of women into working life would bring, especially in the context of family relationships. This new strategy gives the name of postmaschilismo Lorente, as established in the context of postmodernity, and for maintaining, from its early manifestations, some distance from the classical positions of sexism or patriarchy.
Nevertheless, it is considered to be absolutely correct in every argument, I think it is more correct to call this new form of thinking as neomaschilista, as is increasingly turning into a new ideology that is spreading and is characterized In particular, for fear equality. It is a new way of supporting the positions macho as ever, but through new discourses and new content. For example, in the same way, no one today would declare openly fascist but it is clear that for some there is now a new way to be, and they are called neo-fascists.
neomaschilisti I equate feminism, the machismo, trying to confuse something that is very clear. In fact, sexism and feminism seek opposing goals: first, the predominance of the male and the second equality between men and women. The difference is so obvious that it would not be worth explaining, if only the male will not attempt to muddy the waters in order to maintain most of their new positions, which, like always, to question the rights of women, their autonomy and 'who have achieved independence. I neomaschilisti, so they say, do not call into question the equal, but the consequences of its application, are against gender violence but said repeatedly, for example, that there were too many cases where these allegations prove false, without adding that if so, we would be in front of an offense which, like any other, should be denounced.
There is some judges whose statements are really scared - I will not name names because I know that the person would gain satisfaction - but there are, unfortunately, too many theorists neomaschilismo - and among them also a few women - that every day come to the fore and it is our duty to expose, as in the past we have done with the macho.
They consider equality as a threat, not for them but against the social relations and exacerbate the relationship between the sexes at the extreme gender-based violence. Feminism has always been ridiculed and now returns to be so hard. So the talk of revenge neomaschilisti gender, feminism affected (frustrated), dogmatic or radical, with no intention of again being "demonization."
are manifestations of this "fear of equality" that seeks to create in different neomaschilisti ways: for example, "sanctify" breastfeeding, blaming the mothers who can not practice it, the responsibility attributed to mothers of minor problems with the theory of "empty nest" (we might say "mother absent" or educational deficiencies ), and abortion will not speak, seems to be done on a whim. None of them said openly to be against equality, but assert that, on the contrary, we are those women who are building a company with serious problems of coexistence, this as a direct result of our need to be free and equal. They fail to understand that equality without freedom can not exist, or that the Is it real or is not equal and that democracy requires both the.
We women have always had to take things to which men were entitled by birth and we relegated to the reality of private and are able to obtain - through the efforts of years - parts of public space, but always at the cost of our private lives. The men, who were intended as their own public realm, they maintained, and their integration into the private reality of it is being realized in a much lesser extent. Hence the resistance to gender that remain - despite the many advances we have made - particularly in developed countries, since in many others, however, continues with the burka , the major symbol of discrimination that women are forced to suffer.
We must do away with all burka the world face the same decision knowing the old issues and these new - and more subtle - the neomaschilismo.
Amparo Rubiales es profesora de Universidad, abogada y Consejero de Estado.
Amparo Rubiales is a university professor, lawyer and state councilor.
