Many in the audience thought it should be a performance on micromachismos. At the Tantaka TV show event, I participated in a bilingual colloquium among the three journalists. We were a man and two women. Before we started, we assumed that the two girls were nervous, because he publicly understood himself worse in Spanish and I didn't feel sufficiently skilled. And the man said, “But I jump without realizing between the two languages.” By its intonation it was noticed that it was of foreign origin, that is, Euskaldun berri. And yet, from a young age, we had more confidence in their linguistic ability than the two girls we were bilingual.

This observation was the first sign of his vanity. He sat in the middle, with his legs very open, spoke higher and longer… I prefer to talk about daily experiences, so I told what I learned in Pikara (paw). The guy stabbed me in the face. “I haven’t come to talk about ‘my book’.” The poison of the sting fueled my patriarchal voice. Although I speak in public every week, that voice always boycotts me. It is known as “Impostor Syndrome”: In the words of Eneida Iturbe, “they are convinced that they themselves are not so good and wait for people to realize.”

Both women and women have learned that the public space belongs to men. Euskaltzaindia has added this year the “plazandre” post, a very important word that feminists used long ago. Misogynists believe that they can leave us out of play easily on the tablate or in front of the cameras. He did not succeed, but he managed to add another fear to those who came from home: “Have hundreds of people looking at us thought I am a narcissistic?” When we got off the stage, the other journalist approached me vividly and I couldn't hold my tears.

Many journalists have confessed to me that finding women willing to participate in the media is very difficult, and one of the reasons is that confidence in language skills is lower. The experts who analyze the relationship between these two movements (Lorea Agirre, Idurre Eskisabel, Mari Luz Esteban, Bilgune Feminista…) have stressed that feminism has taken from feminism the concept of “empowerment”. Jakin magazine, UEU and Euskaltegi Gabriel Aresti are organizing a course on this subject. In the second session, researchers Aizpea Otaegi and Jaime Altuna analyzed the impact of gender on the processes of Euskaldunization. Among other things, women are the majority of Euskaltegis students and, however, show a more negative self-perception than men when asked about their relationship with Euskera.

The participation of the people enrolled in the course has been low: few women have dared to give their opinion in a room such as the Kafe Antzokia in Bilbao. In the third session, two men spoke, as well as criticizing feminism. The only woman who spoke out loud was the journalist and writer of literature in Basque. I wrote my question in a post.

It is interesting that empowerment in English – empowerment, empowerment – has succeeded among the possibilities of translating empowerment into Basque. “We can, we can,” we must remind ourselves at all times, in our patriarchal but higher voice, and in many languages.