When we were thinking about what Hondarribia's going to bring us to close the Alarde, looking at Irun's mixed company that opens the season, I came up with what are the men walking around, from all ages, from blue hair to boys. What is only justice, and yet it is something to see the privileged in favour of equality. In the anger generated by sexism, we have to remember that other part of reality, even when it is important, minority. And with some historical background.
There we have Bernart Etxepare in the poem of the Wives, although he has a rather indulgent and androcentric look. “The woman for the benefit of man is always,” he says, “governs the house, assures the succession of the species, gives pleasure... And because they are pleasurable, he responded to those who complained that women are kind, that would not be needed if men left them alone. In the following century, the serora Juana Inés de la Cruz addressed the same topic, which also attributed to men the defects of women. They were not feminists, neither of the Cross nor of Etxepare, but if one praises one’s reasoning, one cannot underestimate the other’s reasoning, because it would have cost both of them to go further in those days.
At the other end is Francisco de Javier, who advised confessors to never confess to his wife that the husband is the culprit, although his guilt is evident, so that the woman has nothing wrong afterwards. The ideas of the Navarro saint are all too often found in the men of now; and if it were not enough, every year there are girls' dolls in Hondarribia, disguised as black rage and turning their backs on parity. None of us is exempt from alienation, and there are those who choose to praise their oppression.
Thus, feminists must adopt paradoxical attitudes: to ask for a mixed alarm and to militate in non-mixed groups, knowing that the fact of being a woman does not necessarily guarantee a more plausible posture and, at the same time, to work self-defense against sexist aggressions. Without forgetting that if sex is not the appropriate criterion to measure the value of a person, it is not necessary that men, as men, be considered as natural enemies of women. To oppose the next oxime “Woman is a Man”, you can stand by: “Men are also people,” and some are very honest. It's not a finding, it's not gunpowder, it's just a desire to remember -- and there are the little remedies, the paradox and other miserable ones.
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