EL SALVADOR The new males Julia Evelyn Martínez CONTRAPUNTO
FRIDAY, 11 FEBRUARY 2011 ;
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SAN SALVADOR - The new males come in different sizes, weights, colors and ideologies. You find them everywhere and anytime: in the Catholic churches and Protestant churches, in public places and talk shows, in classrooms
and political parties, in unions and
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in government, on facebook and twitter. All have in common a concern to adapt to new times and new discourses of gender equality, but ensure that the essence of the patriarchal society remains intact. As Miguel Llorente says: they represent a form of domination less noisy but like the old machismo, undermines equality. ;
The new males are afraid of being publicly identified as harassers, women beaters or spectra of the Middle Ages. They are comfortable with a speech that formally recognizes equal rights for men and women, but they oppose any affirmative action to boost the force to advance substantive equality. If you promote greater punishment for the murders of women, say it is discrimination for victims of homicide; if promoted political participation quotas for women, warn that it is an insult to women who could, if it promotes the use of inclusive language for women, saying it will react to what it leads to anarchy in the language and that as things are going to finish talking about the GDP and the IABP.
The new males exert all professions and occupations. may be lawyers, psychologists, economists, interviewers, columnists, MPs, magistrates, prosecutors, police, ministers, analysts, teachers, businessmen, doctors, journalists, presenters, comedians, military, rectors, priests or pastors .
One of its hallmarks is that often the first to react when women try to claim their rights, using the familiar strategy of "yes, but no." Freely admit that there is still discrimination and violence against women, and there are macho busadores that deserve punishment, but then clarifies that these cases are
exception rather than the rule, and therefore the correct way to address these problems should not be acting over the general but about the particular.
brave women scare them (in the terms described by Hector Abad) and prefer submissive women. So despised public figures who exercise violence against women and household weak, but they celebrate
other characters who use their power to disqualify women who claim rights to any voice . For these women, the new males are quick to remind them of their inferiority, to mock them and their struggles, and above all, to look down their progress.
A new males wants the left and right, center and edge. Any politician or official would like to have your service to a lucid new males allowed to object to advancing the rights of women, while is applauded by his speeches in defense of gender equality.
The new males embody the new face of misogyny: women complain that they are taking advantage of laws and institutions that protect them to pursue violence and discrimination against men, that they are the mainly responsible for machismo, and things in the country and the world would be better if women had more freedom to be with their families and less debauchery to engage in feminism.
are the first to raise suspicions about the women who report sexual harassment, implying that perhaps they sought him, or who make these allegations
as a way to justify their failure at work, or in the worst cases, are women with symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia.
However, the taxonomy of the new males is still in process construction, we can preliminarily suggest the following basic categories, which of course admit the possibility of combinations among themselves
illustrated
The new males: Learn more widely the existing literature on gender theory and international instruments national and promote the rights of women, and uses this knowledge to your convenience (or that of someone who hired him) to "talk a lot to do nothing" in regard to discrimination and violence against women. This type of new males has mastered the difficult art of being recognized for its commitment to equality gender, while its proposals undermines the institutional and political conditions that would allow real progress on equal rights between men and women. It is difficult to identify at first sight for the camouflage of gender sensitivity and political correctness that have learned to use, but as they are treated, are evident by his phobia of feminism (and feminists) and distinctive phrases, such as "we move from policy to promote the advancement of women to inclusive policies for women and men."
The new males: Learn more widely the existing literature on gender theory and international instruments national and promote the rights of women, and uses this knowledge to your convenience (or that of someone who hired him) to "talk a lot to do nothing" in regard to discrimination and violence against women. This type of new males has mastered the difficult art of being recognized for its commitment to equality gender, while its proposals undermines the institutional and political conditions that would allow real progress on equal rights between men and women. It is difficult to identify at first sight for the camouflage of gender sensitivity and political correctness that have learned to use, but as they are treated, are evident by his phobia of feminism (and feminists) and distinctive phrases, such as "we move from policy to promote the advancement of women to inclusive policies for women and men."
The new males confessional: He repudiates the existence of injustice and violence against women and adheres to any initiative to eradicate these evils, if they are framed in the foundations and tenets of the religion he professes. This classification are located in most (though not all) who are active in fundamentalist movements or neointegristas (as the charismatic renewal and Opus Dei) or in certain evangelical sects, whose beliefs inspire them to support those reforms for women are correlated to the exalted feminine virtues in their sacred texts and reject those other reforms that put into question the "natural inequality" of women established in those writings.
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The new males: Orienta proposals for gender equity in strengthening the traditional family and the role of motherhood for women. This type of neomachsimo dare not explicitly recognize the superiority of men and inferiority of women, but acts implicitly guided by this double conviction. It's the kind of politician who argues that it is important that a woman is president of the country but then says that "unfortunately the people are not ready for this development" or holding that "women are smarter than men and therefore prefer to focus in caring for the foundation of society, namely the family, and not go wasting my time in politics. " In the international version of the new males
The new males: Orienta proposals for gender equity in strengthening the traditional family and the role of motherhood for women. This type of neomachsimo dare not explicitly recognize the superiority of men and inferiority of women, but acts implicitly guided by this double conviction. It's the kind of politician who argues that it is important that a woman is president of the country but then says that "unfortunately the people are not ready for this development" or holding that "women are smarter than men and therefore prefer to focus in caring for the foundation of society, namely the family, and not go wasting my time in politics. " In the international version of the new males
right is represented by former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe publicly claim by Hugo Chavez at the summit that: "MALE AND STAY TO BE DISCUSSED IN FRONT" and as amended Creole another ex-President Tony Saca Salvadoran women by promising "never to be alone."
The new males left: Justify the struggle for women's rights as a legitimate struggle and necessary for the people, provided it take place within the framework of the construction of socialist society and only in this context. Believes that women in the struggle for their rights should be a symbol of unity and divisiveness reason never to benefit the enemy (imperialism, oligarchy, corporations, etc). Such new males take no problems with sexist attitudes or behaviors at certain times, because in return, put in place measures for gender equity to increase
presence of women in politics and / or improve their economic and social development. In its new males ligth this kind of identifies with Evo Morales
or Hugo Chavez and in its extreme version with Daniel Ortega. A memorable moment of the new males on the left is the swearing in by President Hugo Chavez of the members of Women Against the Bicentennial March 8, 2010, who called for "dismantling of capitalism, the birth, RAISE, BREASTFEEDING and strengthen the only way the salvation of the country, which is the feminist Bolivarian socialism. " The new males loquacious: Its distinctive feature is its tendency to political deception resulting from the lack of illustration on issues related to discrimination and violence, combined with its high propensity to talk too much or comment publicly on these issues lightly. The cult figure is neomachsimo such Silvio Berlusconni, casually saying no one in the 2008 campaign that "the left has no taste, even when it comes to women. Our candidates are more beautiful. "And more recently, the figure of Joseph Ackermann, Chairman of Deutsche Bank, who during the debate in Germany about the proposed minimum quotas for female participation in the directories companies, said that "there is no woman on the steering committee of Deutsche Bank, but I hope that some day management will be more beautiful and more colorful thanks to the integration of women."
Much of the success of the new males is not usually act alone, next door to the back or front of the large and small new males tend, in general, be a group of women consciously or unconsciously also serve the cause of patriarchy in this new stage of development. Some of these women made an active defense of new males while others choose to do so passive or covert
The first group emphasizes the First Lady of Nicaragua, Mrs. Rosario Murillo, who on the official website of the Presidency of the Republic remains hung a text called "The feminist connection wars low intensity "which makes a fiery denunciation of imperialist feminist conspiracy that exists in his country to counter the government of her husband, and which reads:" In its eagerness disturbed and political destruction of family disintegration, to the housekeepers of the oligarchy does not stop anything (....) This political and cultural activism, pro-European y norteamericano, se disfraza de feminismo, viste ropa de mujer, pero no conoce, nunca ha conocido, la sensibilidad del corazón de la mujer. Su lenguaje es visceral y vengativo, propio del egoísmo y la egolatría, que caracteriza al capitalismo profundo (…)
No tienen lazos familiares o afectivos estables; desdeñan esos dichosos y benditos vínculos del cariño incondicional, indispensables para el desarrollo humano (….) En los procesos revolucionarios y progresistas de América Latina, las mujeres hemos venido conquistando espacios de poder. Hemos asumido nuestras verdaderas demandas de justicia y equidad, trabajando con alma por una práctica política, económica y social, which we incorporated into our cultural diversity, and our essential freedom (....) that we can not stand and defend our idiosyncrasies, values \u200b\u200band customs that are precisely those who through history have allowed humanity, love , share, multiply, dream and work for a better Society (....) We will pray for them. Love is stronger than hate. Ask for your personal satisfaction. Ask to move from the suffocation and frustration that mad, to peace of mind, and ask for that calms the lead to recognize the good, and incorporate it into their lives. "
In the second group women are Rep. Carmen Flores, the MAS party (Movimiento al Socialismo in Bolivia), which recognizes a condescending manner that "would deny a reality that sexism does not accept to sit on the MAS, but it's part of our culture. However, it is noteworthy that President Evo Morales has a lot of confidence in the work of women and he believes that we have spaces. I personally have not met another man who is as fair as he is. At every meeting we always try to be the voice of women and demands and recommended that parliamentarians take into account our position. Women are always going to be obstacles but much depends on the personal work of each, we run around lagging behind. "
In conclusion, it is time to realize that patriarchy is changing his skin and there are new machismo, and consequently, it requires higher and refurbished feminisms.
(*) Professor and Columnist Counterpoint
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