Everything, absolutely everything, can be analyzed through a gender perspective. Why? Because society is divided, just for now, between men and women. Social relations, politics, economics, consumption, cultural phenomena and even pandemics can, and should, have a gender approach, especially when dealing with the different problems that a sexist society like ours drag with you. Coronavirus is no exception. Right now there are hundreds of thousands of femininities around the world locked up with their assailants, isolated and quarantined. If the situation in the daily day is already complex for women living in a violent bond, the pandemic and seclusion sequence fatally violates the lives of them and their children. While in our country a violent man murders a woman every 26 hours and machismo is very similar to a pandemic counting drops (slower, more entainted, quieter but, above all, more violent), the quarantine situation offers an extraordinary scenario and very particular in which sharing a roof with the one who assaults you can be even more hellish.
But just as the government works to stop the country and defuse the virus, from the state there are tools to combat gender-based violence and help females who are locked, literally and metaphorically, in sexo-affective bonds Violent. One of those fundamental and key tools when it comes to talking about public policies that fight machismo, is line 144. This line, which works 24 hours a day 365 days a year, is anonymous, has national reach, attends 70 thousand calls per month and almost 5 thousand of those calls are for situations of sexist violence. There, an interdiciplinary team covering areas such as advocacy, psychology and social assistance, are available to the person in a situation of violence to accompany and advise them according to what they need. From Filo.News we talk to Veronica Misseri, worker and delegate of the line about what to do if you are an isolated femininity with your aggressor during (and not during) this pandemic. 1- Call in a moment of calm and loneliness
While this number is a key tool when it comes to gender-based violence, contact, they recommend from the line, it should be done when the person who needs help can dialogue, explain and detail what happens. “A lot of communications come up in an emergency, but the line works 24 hours a day, so it’s best to call when you can talk quietly,” Misseri explains.” It is key that he is not ahead of the person who is exercising violence. One possibility is to call from a friend’s or a family member’s house,” she says, adding, “It is also recommended that if you have children, you have your documents always on top and, in addition, that they are not present during the talk. The reality is that you have to ask questions and out there the answers or maybe the story is difficult and it is always prioritized to take care of them children that they may be listening to,” she adds. 2- Always have something to score
At the time of the call, having a scorer and a birome is necessary since the specialists diagram options and tools for each particular case.” Always keep in mind to have something to write down, to be able to record the information and sort it, because sometimes during a crisis and in the story it is difficult to hear or remember what is said on the other side,” says Misseri.During the end of the call , to understand and know the steps to follow, the workers take a tour of the situation and repeat in an orderly and clear way the steps to follow. “At the closing of the call, we worry about going back and detailing observations and we went clean to give her the options or diagram her that route, so that she can incorporate it,” Misseri says. 3- Line 144 is advisory and not complaint
“The line is intended as a first level of care where women can contact some state body, in this case the 144. Here you start thinking or diagraming a critical route that the victim will travel to get out of that situation of violence,” says the specialist. The first communication aims to accompany in a comprehensive way the person who communicates and each worker in the area consults, if necessary, with other colleagues in order to be able to address each case in particular effectively. “The accompaniment, which also seeks to help anyone who calls in that situation, is that whoever is in a violent relationship can get out of there and also not re-form that kind of links,” he adds, referring to the prevention needed to cut off spiral of aggression in this type of problem. Well. Ready. This is where I’d finish this note if everything worked out. But that’s not the case with 144. Because this line, which works non-stop all year round, has many conflicts. The situation of the women workers of this, which is one of the state actions battle horse against violence, is complex and the almost 100 people who serve in it are precarious and the company, outsourced.” We need to be recognized as state workers and not a private company,” demands delegate and ends: “At the same time, a wage recomposition and rotation of tasks (there are colleagues who are attending since 2016 and we understand that the attention violence are not tasks that can and should not be sustained for so long.””
