“Woman: neither submissive nor pious, I love you beautiful, free and crazy,” at one point in history someone uttered this phrase making her message mark the times. Unfortunately, it is still necessary to remember this today, and it is also certain that we still have a long way to go to get the message to more and more people.
It’s not about being a woman or a man, it’s about having respect for everyone, and in this case for people, we have to put aside stereotypes that feed that a woman shouldn’t exploit her body, which she should ignore. their needs and sacrifice themselves until they become exhausted.
- It is essential that we stop feeding this idea of women as complacent beings without expectations or needs.
- Today’s woman must be proud of her status as a woman.
- Abandon the belief that sometimes women themselves have to be inferior and claim the right to live.
- Your life as you see fit.
As Alicia Giménez Bartlett says, “Women today don’t need anyone to support them. “It is true that being a woman in a world of men is sometimes no easy task, because we have strong ideas rooted in society that hinder personality to excel from prejudice.
Women and men are equal in their conditions as unique and independent people, but patriarchy appears in countless gestures, words, images, values, ideas, and beliefs that form the basis of physical and emotional submission.
Still, today there are thousands of men and women who fight because they believe that equality is everyone’s right and that even if men and women differ, everyone deserves the same respect and affection.
Unfortunately, even with all this, there is still a huge burden on women, a symbolic weight because this patriarchy legitimizes certain discourses that impose meanings on each of our female behaviors.
Living subject to the beliefs of a society that is not yet fully aware that there is inequality with everyday consequences, gender-based violence and cosification of women, makes us vulnerable to problems such as extreme anxiety, depression, substance abuse, poorly adapted syndromes, etc.
Therefore, the best method of defense is to cultivate common feelings with all women, to increasingly assume the ideal of women, and not to believe that the only legitimate female bond to be protected is that of the family, which is a context. so sacrifice even our identity.
No more guilt for not trusting us in tasks that we do not like, more than not trusting our values and abilities, no more giving us time to relax, no more ignoring our feelings, more accepting the obligation to lower our heads, doing the impossible to change our bodies and adapt to stereotypes.
Let us begin with ourselves and stop being passive, resignation, obedience, both in service and in the care of others, in the administration of the home, in the affairs of children, in the image of a good wife, in the objectation of our bodies, in repression and patience?
Let us seek freedom and our personal identity, abandon what is expected of female identity, and assume the actions, attitudes, expectations, and judgments we want and desire, not what determined us because we were born women. Let us be free, hermosas. de hearts, like all men and all people.