We live in a permanent trivialization of violence. A trivialization that acquires its most immediate and fulminating dimension in one of its drives: violence against women. An invaluable support for a concrete oppression, of power and submission, derived from a hierarchically exploitative social structure. For the culture of dehumanization of women to be legitimized, it is necessary to dominate their gender condition and normalize violence and its exacerbations. A degraded way of transforming victims into perpetrators, and sexual violence into connotations of shared responsibility.
From different sectors of ideological and authoritarian masculinity, women are denigrated, stating that they are provocative, insinuating, and deliberately flirtatious “beings.” A kind of religious “amantis”, who with her arts of seduction controls the testosterone levels of the male in heat at her whim. That was the narrative assumed by the defense of the former Barcelona and Brazilian national team player, Dani Alves, sentenced to four and a half years in prison for rape and sexual assault of a 23-year-old girl in the bathrooms of the Sutton nightclub. The violence and denial with which the victim was objectified led her to express her desperation: “she raped me, but who is going to believe me?”
That’s how it went. Much of public opinion was infected by the toxicity of suspicion. From that congenital machismo that is practiced with much more fervor than critical consciousness, the victim was discredited from spaces of political and social representation, maintaining that conception of women conceived as a mere object, reduced to an always available, disposable body. The Provincial Court of Barcelona considered it proven that Dani Alves “vaginally penetrated the victim, despite the fact that the complainant said no, that he wanted to leave.” Still, it wasn’t enough.
The extreme right and part of the international alternative right maintain the widespread discourse of using the disqualification of the victim to defuse accusations of gender violence and minimize progress in equality. This new ultra right, so harsh, so inhuman, of lead women who “moralize politics so much” have ended up politicizing morality, with the false language of victimized hate, which is the hate that sells best. The “muses” Giorgia Meloni, Victoria Villarruel, Marie Le Pen, Díaz Ayuso and Patricia Bullrich, form, among others, that international “patriarchy” that has fully entered into the battle for the dominance of sexuality. That extreme right that makes us believe that by going backwards we advance. They want to take us to the 18th century, to the universe of Voltaire who wrote with irony: “When a lady says no she means “perhaps”, when she says “perhaps” she means yes, and when she says yes she is no longer a lady.”
In the face of every disappointment we always have the hope of amassing a new world, a better, more egalitarian, more understanding world, a social space of intimate and collective growth, an instrument of dialogue, consensus, shelter and tomorrow. After all, we have all come into this world through the body of a woman.
2024-02-29 14:35:06
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