At some point, March 8 turned from working woman’s day to women’s day to feminism day. Since it is not well known today what it is to be a feminist, the date, which has replaced May 1 in prestige in the liturgical calendar of the left parties, has become a matter of debate. And it is for these kalends that many (and many) are asked a question that hides, under an innocent rhetorical disguise, an immense porcupine:
-Are you a feminist?
I keep thinking about my answer to a question that could make me as stiff as Buridan’s ass. For me, equality between men and women – the core thesis of feminism – is not, as Ortega would say, an idea I have, but a belief in which I am. I find it unnecessary to go back from faith to the idea of stamping the idea on a T-shirt. You would even mock the feminists who fought for the idea that the few should believe that the majority is (#muchtododo suggests that those women did little). So the question only makes sense if it refers not to the undisputed core of equality, but to additional proposals open to discussion among right-thinking people.
There are men and women who know that the pay gap exists, but doubt whether the cause can be traced entirely to gender discrimination; who want the state to protect women from violence from which they suffer far more, but who do not believe in unilateral statements or criminal justice asymmetries; that they sympathize with the woman who sues, but not so much as to render the test unnecessary; who think that the machismo of certain language use does not extend to grammar and gender formation system; that there are places and times when the compliment is not harassment; who share household responsibilities as a fruit of love, not a union obligation; who support abortion as a right, but do not believe it is abnormal to spend resources on its prevention; that they are open to discussing whether there are ways to regulate surrogacy or prostitution that are not demeaning to women; there are men and women who know that the line between culture and biology is blurred, but it exists; who have reservations about whether any disproportion amounts to discrimination and, in short, see no machismo where others do, and whether they are right or wrong, they deserve to be heard without disqualification or excommunication.
It will be easier to be a feminist if talking about all this is not forbidden.
Source: La Verdad
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