Five years of the first march that marked a milestone in the world, in our country in the lives of millions of women and femininities. And while many things happened in these years, the struggle and claims remain almost intact. The historic march that placed Argentina as a feminist spearhead in the region had a main claim that was to preserve our lives. After the brutal murder of Daiana Garcia, the streets were filled with femininities with a joke and fear, Daiana we were all. But from this time to this part, there were more than 1500 Daianas. Victims all of sexist violence, all killed at the hands of a man who still believes that our life belongs to him. A strong and shocking number, a violent femininity every 26 hours. More than 75% of these deaths are perpetuated by couples or ex-partners of the victims. At all casual, the system raises us in this way, romantic love, jealousy and private property function as a bastion of machismo that still reproduces in our cultural consumption misconceptions about the bonds, in general, between cisgender and heterosexual males and women. While the jolt happened to us five years ago, feminist movements have long standing. From the French Revolution (and even much earlier) to today, entire decades of women fighting for rights that seemed unattainable, were advancing our history. Let us think that a hundred years ago we could not even vote, we did not have the parental authority of our hiers and we lacked any kind of civil right as caregivers. Until very little ago street harassment was considered pyropo and consent, key and fundamental to begin any kind of sex-affective bond, a distant concept. But the constant debate and sharing of feminists on television, networks and mainstream consumption show a breakthrough in just five years. Advance achieved by force of exposure, deaths and explicit violence. Resistance over basic and fundamental rights such as deciding on our own body, winning the same as our peers and not being discriminated against because of our gender status. This June 3rd the march is virtual as the pandemic paralyzed the life of an entire country. But in addition to the key slogans of this particular date, from Filo.News we invite the boys to reflect on it. The role of cisgender man in the feminist struggle is fuzzy and is never entirely clear. Millions of men ask over and over how they can collaborate with the struggle towards a more egalitarian society, but apparently few answers. For decades, feminist movements challenged and challenged femininities all because it is main and predominant that we are the ones who activate and go out to fight for what is ours. But in these years of dialogue and deconstruction, many men understood that equality is a necessity and that it is time to also begin to change almost all their social interactions. Because those men who murder, abuse or violent femininities are bosses, managers, strikers, CEOs, doctors, nurses, dentists, office workers, traders, programmers, theater directors, officials. All of them, in turn, have friends and surely one of those friends, be you. And if you are sure that you are not, that from any point of view you are a friend of a violent male, we invite you to rethink responsibility within the micromachisms that are millions and of which you are a part. 76% of household chores are continued by women even though we are one of half of our country’s labor market. The mental burden of care tasks is still ours. The jokes, the comments and the understatement, the discrimination in the office, the sexism in your whatsapp group with your friends, do not want to use condoms, delete you if the piba with which you are has a back, do not pass the food quota or not respect its negative in any sexual circumstance in which they are, are many of the violence that reinforce the same stereotypes that later end in femicides.
The first #NiUnaMenos mobilized and changed the lives of millions of femininities in our country. After the femicide of Daiana García, the squares throughout the country were filled with a clear slogan: Stop killing us! In addition to a lustro, a lot of things happened. And while even one woman dies every 26 hours in Argentina and violence, unequal wages and gender discrimination continue, progress is undeniable. The visibility of bullying and the denaturation of sexual abuse are some of the changes that our society is going in the direction of a more just and equal world. While for decades and specifically in these five years, feminist movements challenged femininities, we believe it is time for men to start reflecting on their responsibilities. Changing all the spaces where men exist is also a way to change this unequal and sexist society. There are many men who always ask what they can do for feminist movements: in this video @yofermina gives us some clues to how they can start to get involved. • * The images of the gear “Not a minus 2015” belong to UMMO Films and Eugenia Lasso #NiUnaMenos #VivasNosQueremos #niunamenos #niunamenos✋ #feminismo #luchafeminista #FiloNews #Efemerides
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The idea of this note and this video is that you understand the responsibility that exists and that exists on your shoulders. Because machismo is a social structure to which we belong to all. We are going to continue to fight for the right to a life without violence, but we need you, from your spaces, to start acting immediately. It’s not enough with a sign, it’s not enough with a hug. Males must live up to events, reflect, listen and modify everything in their power to make this world a better place.
