Sexist men and women shape and perpetuate a backward and unjust society. These attitudes, often brazen or camouflaged in conventional micromachisms, are based on authoritarianism as rusty as it is harmful. a doubt, everyone’s responsibility.
Victor Hugo said that the first equality is equity. It has been almost two centuries since this thought and many more since Mary Wollstonecraft, Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir or Emilia Pardo Bazon gave their testimonies of “Wake Us?”And let’s move on on to the same subject. Equality and freedom. However, many times it seems that we have just crossed the exit line to analyze the achievements achieved.
- The United States.
- For example.
- Is led by a man (elected by popular vote) with a very clear and categorical opinion on women: “Women are.
- In essence.
- Aesthetic objects.
- “We live in a society where any scenario is ideal.
- To sexualize women and put them in a lower position.
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- We are in a world where laws often continue to produce the same chauvinistic.
- Authoritarian and patriarchal essence that persists from generation to generation Legislature after Legislature.
We know that our system has great obvious flaws and prejudices, renewing this psychological, social and political substrate is not something that can be done overnight, to achieve this it is necessary to change the mindset, and something like this can only be achieved in one way: with the determination and collaboration of all, or at least a good majority.
Every day we can find sexist men and women in our daily lives, they are in our family, in our jobs and among our friends, in addition, we can even be one of them, one of those people who practices and perpetuates machismo without realizing it. That.
Our actions, comments or ways of responding may contain clearly micromachic manifestations in their “DNA”. These are the consequences of our education. They also reflect the influence of a culture that shapes us silently, persistently, and studied. Furthermore, we can openly denounce inequality and violence against women; however, most people can fall into the traps of machismo when they least expect it.
Therefore, we have to look very clear, sexist men and women do not come into the world with these attitudes, it is not something innate or fruit of a brain connection that, at some point, leads us to be and act in So just as we learn to read, bike or memorize irregular verbs in English, people are also sexist. We just follow a pattern and internalize it.
Sexist men and women are the result of this pattern of male supremacy that they have inhaled, absorbed and integrated into them throughout their childhood and adolescence. We know, for example, that gender stereotypes are presumed from an early age. starting to feel less bright at the age of six.
The fact that they think they are less intelligent is due to the context in which we raise our children, it is the result of what they see in their day to day and what we transmit to them, children, on the other hand, are educated (often) on the basis of the affirmation of individuality, we face this fundamental feature of machismo where a sense of strength and superiority prevails , a shell that must be maintained at all costs, where the only legitimate and permitted emotions in the masculinity club are sexual authority and libido.
It is not easy to get rid of the bodice of dominant and dominant masculinity, however, movements like #MeToo have given visibility to what happens in the shadows for many years, on the one hand, these viral phenomena respond to a They provide social support to women encourage them to speak up, to have the courage to speak up, to assume responsibilities, to know that they are not alone.
The second aspect that is achieved is also interesting, consciences are awakened by denouncing injustices to give presence to a reality that has always existed, discrimination, violence against women, sexualization or lack of sensitivity in our legal codes are facts that become apparent. there is no doubt that there are sexist men and women, but the voices that highlight their attitudes and behaviors multiply.
We will all win if we get rid of the machismo bodice, we will breathe better and we will have more freedom, so even if there are those who think that there is a lot of equality in our day to day, we just have to look around with a little more empathy to realize that this is not the case. Existing attitudes are everywhere. In the words a man says to his partner, in the way a mother raises her child, in advertising. In this song where we dance to, but who never pay attention to the lyrics?
In conclusion, let us remember that change will only be possible if we are all aware of this terrible patriarchal substrate, moreover, it is not enough to be able to feel, see or feel, consciousness is useless if it is not accompanied by action, if we are not able to create a society based on equity, respect, freedom and true justice.