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Change is our choice

Mafalda, the moving character created by the Argentine creator Quino, staring at the ball of the world often said: “How bad

If we take a broad, long and serene look at our world, we realize the complicated and cruel situations in which we are immersed, especially if we see it from the point of view of wives.

Even though seventeen years have passed, we must not forget the war in the Balkans that took place in Europe at the end of the twentieth century. In that convulsive conflict, they kidnapped and raped women, the Muslim majority, to humiliate the enemy, to punish the men who were used as objects, thus demonstrating that we are still the second sex.

The media, moreover, say or write round lies, of course, with the evil of politicians.

When the attack in Afghanistan began eleven years ago, it was one of the excuses put forward by the United States Government to free its wives from the burka or save them from the men who had oppressed them. There have been bloody years of pain, of pain, of endless suffering, now all the inhabitants, including children and men, are living worse, if these penalties are not enough, in a bombing in which eight women were killed by NATO soldiers in the middle of last month, to say that it is by chance it has no credibility.

Violence against women is an old news that the media brings us daily, that only shows us the sad situation of the wives of Muslim peoples, but we are surprised, when we know that in such “advanced” countries as Canada, Australia, Israel, the United States... it also happens, we do not realize that a consequence of this socio-economic system in which we are immersed is physical violence, or psychological day. In addition, it occurs in any group, regardless of race, religion, socioeconomic conditions, educational level or age.

Biological inequality has created a senseless hierarchy between the sexes, giving priority to men. All of this does not lead us into a victimization. These are not sterile complaints, but deep causes of our oppression and rejection. We don't stay without doing anything, we've given our lives a thousand ways, we've stood up in front of our situation and we've built new roads over and over again.

However, individual struggles have been, above all, spiritual. Without neglecting these personal revolutions, we now have two options, among others: to develop our physical strength, on the one hand, to socialize it, on the other; to turn everything upside down.

Keeping old ideas is easier than changing. Working new paths, making transformations have never been easy. We don't know until a theory is carried out, sometimes we won't know if an idea is properly oriented when it's being made, we just have to invent pending lines.

If you look at the technology of this society, you realize it's a society that Leonardo da Vinci never dreamed of. We now have to transform interpersonal relations until the oppressors and the oppressed disappear.

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