Definitely, the social emancipation of women is the most significant structural change of the 20th century after millennia of patriarchal domination that has permeated all social institutions and continues to lash out. It was not a liberating change granted from masculine power but ripped from the feminist movement and his fight continues new rights and equal spaces. Since the postwar period, after six decades of progress, when it seemed that gender equality continued to progress in a linear and cumulative logic (albeit with ups and downs) we have suddenly entered a new regressive and gloomy scenario. The UN recently denounced that there has been no progress in eradicating prejudice against women in the last decade. The cause of the setback is the “anti-gender movements well organized and with many resources& rdquor;.
The irruption of a resistive and aggressive counter-feminism has entered the ‘mainstream’ of public debate since 2020 at the hands of the global authoritarian right of which they are a part Vox and the most fundamentalist sectors of the religious right within the PP. It is a new Crusade opposed to what called gender “ideology” and the equal advancement of women and full recognition of affective-sexual diversity. Moved by an evangelizing and redemptive spirit, the new reactionary machismo She presents herself as the victim of a feminist “totalitarianism” with excessive freedoms for women and the new affective identities that are offensive to them.
Your underlying enemy is women’s freedom and individual self-determination, both achieved in the secularization process that accelerated in May 1968, an icon they obsessively combat. In her retrotraditional ideology, the only subject of power must be the man, normalizing the subordinate role of women as a sexual object without rights. The one who can touch her ass, kiss her or assault her without the need for consent. It is the reaffirmation of masculine and authoritarian power that returns us to the Old Patriarchal Regime, although adapted in the midst of the postmodern era of technology, screens, ‘fakes’ and alternative truths.
Rubiales continues to naturalize female inferiority as a defining part of his macho-identity and his primitive, uninhibited virility. He does not understand that it is already something unacceptable and reprehensible outside of his closed circle of power and impunity. Society has changed and no longer admits the old machismo so typical of the world of soccer that intersects and is armored with scandalous salaries, privileges and excessive luxury.
He King sport has to do one antisexism catharsis and act as a pedagogical and educational space for equality between men and women. In the recent past, it has already done so against violence and racism, prescribing the values of respect and racial anti-discrimination on and off the field of play. Now it’s her turn to act as a coeducational and anti-sexist agent both from the base sport of the lower categories and in the elite competition and in their own power structures.
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It should be noted that the reactionary anti-feminist wave began to emerge in Spain years ago, when the fundamentalist right, the PP and the bishops ranted against the educational reform of the LOE (2006) and they ended their coeducation programs and the subject Education for Citizenship. As always, the first triumph of the extreme cultural right is that an official and hegemonic right like the PP buys their story. It is the Trojan horse to fanaticize its electorate to reject feminism and assimilate it to a destructive and diabolical ideology.
The Rubiales case has fermented on a fertile ground in recent years by the religious fundamentalist lobby infiltrated in the right-wing parties. Too many sects and fanatical currents of extreme intolerance. It is time to reinforce egalitarian and coeducational policies, but you also have to combat the sexist indoctrination practiced by the ultra-religious and anti-gender lobi, applying unconstitutionality to it that for other matters is applied without so much hesitation. Attacking human rights and returning to the Middle Ages is not only unacceptable, it is condemnable.