on 8 March commemorates the day of working women throughout the world and in our country (and the world) this date grows and grows. The streets were filled for the fourth time at the national level of women who went out to fight, go and demand their rights.
Even though it was full of cis and non-cis women (remember, cis is who is recognized with the gender that they assigned at birth), there were also men. Men who were accompanying their partners but also men singly or in a group.
The presence of males in the March for women’s day, lesbians, shemales, Trans and other disagreements, particularly bothered me. Such discomfort expressed it in Tuite and as the tweet climbed, I received hundreds of aggressive comments on this issue.
Many angry men and some women also. All asked for explanations with an argument that is repeated: I have the right to fight for the rights of women because feminism is equality and if we are equal I also want.
Many male yesterday in the March for the 8 M. How cuesta les men not be part of the story, isn’t it? -Paula B. Giménez (@YoFermina) 9 March 2019 but what pushed me to make this note was a message from my mom saying that she had read that put men and did not like to think so. At that time I called her, explained why men should not be in these marches and he understood it.
So we are going to explain it here also, as to see if what happened to it, happens to someone else.
1 is the day of the commemoration of this day working women not only implies a March but also the cessation of activities of all the women in the world. The idea is to show how, if we, the world stops. After generating these gaps in our places of work, take to the street.
The forcefulness of these marches has to do with our union. In a world that always told us that we were enemies and mascarons among ourselves, show strength and organization is part of our claim.
In addition, particularly on this date, that is remembered is the death of 23 textile workers in a fire in United States. Also 3 men died, it is true, but that work, as well as many others, is culturally feminized.
The women are the ones who are behind these trades which, moreover, are very bad payments.
2. the perpetrators are men this point seems key to try to understand why it is better that males do not participate in these demonstrations.
Suppose that I am a victim of sexual violence and go to feminist marches to denounce and enunciating this conflict. Suppose that while my manifesto I come across who I violated, assaulted, hit or violated. Suppose me agonising and suppose then that already these spaces are not comfortable places for my.
We must not forget that they are men who commit a femicide every 31 hours. And while vos, well-intentioned man, never do any such thing, any of your friends or acquaintances, Yes.
Open the door to males from entering these areas is dangerous because it does not care for the victims.
3. once in the history science, discoveries, politics, creations, sports, most of the professions, books, poetry, music, cuisine, art, have men as protagonists.
All historical events on the planet Earth, except for small occasions not listed in books, were pushed or immortalized by men.
Unless we talk about stories of love, women, invisible but active participants in history, always they were located alongside, wives, but never in front, never as a main subject policies.
Until today.
In the newspapers, in museums, in songs, in the networks. Women everywhere are demonstrating and saying that years ago the world should listen but now just calls.
Feminism fights for decades by this space and so that these marches are filled with women claiming their rights.
There are many things that you, as a male, you can do in the comfort of your home, in your neighborhood, in your group of friends without the need to appear.
This movement does not need you in the street but backwards, you need inside, Deconstructing yourself and cross-examining you or your friends how make life a little easier.
What cis males during the stoppage and mobilization of the 8M?
thread Institute masculinities and Social change � � pic.twitter.com/XG4MSMLvrz – Lucho Fabbri (@LuchoFabbri) March 7, 2019 4.
