This March 8, several media have pointed out the division of feminism as a result of the segregated marches that have been convened in different cities of Spain under the terms “inclusive feminism” and “abolitionist feminism”. At first glance, anyone would prefer to be part of the so-called “inclusive feminism & rdquor ;, but do we really know what is hidden under the slogan of the diversity of the ‘queer’ theory?
Remember that feminism is a movement for girls and women, who are in a situation of inferiority with respect to men. Feminist theory, whose foundations have been laid thanks to the struggle and thinking of many women, starts from the widely-verified premise that girls and women are oppressed because of their sex.
feminists fight against gender stereotypes that keep women in a subordinate position; For example, they have noted that the fact of assuming that women are naturally better equipped to assume emotional and caregiving roles has kept them confined to the domestic sphere and, therefore, away from public spaces and positions of power in which the political and economic decisions that maintain this structural inequality are made. For this reason, feminism underlines the need to abolish gender, conceived as a cultural mandate that turns the conquest of equality into a chimera.
In other words, from feminism it is defended that being a woman or a man is a biological reality, the rest of the cognitive, emotional or social characteristics that are associated with both are the product of cultural constructions that are transmitted generationally –gender–. This view is supported today from neurosciencethanks to researchers like Gina Rippon, Daphna Joel or Cordelia Fine, who are dismantling the neurosexism that has conditioned scientific research for so many years.
In contrast, ‘queer’ theory sees gender as an identity that can be freely ‘performed’. Gender ceases to be conceived as an imposition and becomes a personal choice, getting rid of its negative character. If each person can choose the gender, why are stereotypes negative? In addition, from the ‘queer’ theory, sex ceases to be a material reality and also becomes a social construction –like gender–, therefore, the root of the oppression of women is totally blurred. How can feminism be articulated from this point of view? Rosa Cobo rightly explains that ‘queer’ theory is a theory about sexual dissidence, but this does not make her a feminist. What this theory does is try to explain with unscientific arguments the situation in which some people find themselves and generalizes it to all human beings.
The feminist agenda has been changing depending on the injustices that women have been facing at each historical moment, but thanks to the analysis of the origin of inequalities, some basic axes have been established, such as the fight against sexual and reproductive exploitation. The ‘queer’ theory, from its neoliberal vision of free choice, not only ignores these precepts, but also manifests itself in favor of them.
The acceptance of this theory, innocent as it may seem, endangers the feminist struggle and the achievement of real equality between men and women. We cannot lose sight of the fact that advances in equality are based on the feminist conception of the sex-gender binomial; for example, how else can we prevent, detect and act against sexist violence?
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Feminists are used to being labeled as crazy, exaggerated or hysterical when we point out an injustice or potential danger to women. Accepting diversity is very laudable, but that inclusion cannot engulf the movement; If it harms girls and women, IT IS NOT FEMINISM.