Go outside, by Mar Calpena


go outside are a lot of things. On Tuesday, I would dare to say, there were 15,000 of them, as many as participants in a demonstration. Some even conflicting. Feminism is an increasingly mighty riverand sometimes jumbled, and even painfully bifurcated, but which converges on the need to abolish a system that oppresses us. To us, mainly, but also to the men, because machismo impoverishes and brutalizes the whole society. That is why you have to remind yourself, often, that in a demonstration sometimes the most important thing is the photo that will be taken in wide angle, and the number of people that will be seen in it, or else we would not support keep two meters away from any of its participants. Everyone who makes their own blacklists, and includes me in them if they want; in the list of my ‘mani’, the name two formation policies that They bet on degrading the labor rights of many women, who the photo they were looking for was more of a close-up portrait. And yet, I understand that his presence there in the background is a good sign, because it indicates that common sense, hegemony, is that it is no longer possible to stay at home.

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On Tuesday there were in the streets silent women for ukraine and women who danced Rigoberta Bandiniwomen who demanded fair pensions and others that they will not be harassed in video game forums. The gender gap, chemical violations and the dictatorship of aesthetics were protested. It is difficult to understand that feminism -like other social movements- is not a monolithic bloc, and it seems that an unacceptable purity is demanded of it, and that it listens to the opinions and complaints of those whose privileges it questions so as not to be branded as who knows what, and that harbors very diverse visions and degrees of commitment. The sorority it is the heroism that allows brotherhood with someone you deeply disagree with, even for a day, to achieve something better. And the patriarchy does not enter the head.


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