Hello how are you? Indeed, I just heard that I was presented
as a man who sought to unlearn what we have incorporated,
with what we have socialized. This phrase, which initially have here,
seeks to locate what I will express and share in this short time with you.
Obviously, you do not need to be a woman to defend the rights of a collective
to which one belongs. You do not need to be poor to try to
subscribe ideas of social incorporation. The problems that have to do
with violence against women and with patriarchal society,
they concern us all and patriarchy is a disease, if you will,
that we have built socially in history that we are on time
to begin to disengage, to unlearn and stop reproducing systematically.
A trigger that seems important to place us in structural terms
and that is present in this chart.
These quantitative or hard data allow us to locate something painful,
which is how globally, in the data framework of global organizations
linked to the theme of women, are present today.
For example, of the total hours worked in the world, women work
52 hours and men 48. Of money in property, if we grab
all the GDP, all the money in the world, 90% is held by men.
And 10% have women.
If we think the land in property, it is 99% to 1%.
This is the result of history.
And not from a whim of history, but from decisions after decisions
that were shaping this reality.
If we think about agricultural credit, which has to do with tenure
from the earth, it’s 98% to 2%.
If we look at the totality of the world’s poor, which are roughly a third of
the world population, 67% of all the poor are women and 33% are men.
If we think about literacy, 70% of the world’s illiterate are women
and 30% are men. As for the undernourished,
80% of all undernourished are women and 20% are men.
Children out of school, 67% women and 33% men.
Parliamentary positions, 83% male and 17% female.
Ministerial posts, 84% men and 16% women.
Finally, economic management positions in companies, 86% and 14%.
These numbers are a photograph of a story
that comes to show us this reality.
We have to do something with this.
Because these numbers are the makers of feminicide.
How do we get from these numbers to gender violence?
Holding the idea of the woman’s weakness, subscribing
the models of socialization and education that we build boys and girls
which imply putting women in a place of deep weakness and vulnerability.
This means the reproduction in our house constantly
when we not only divide by colors of blue and pink, but when we give
sexual rights to live men who have many sexual relationships
they are bright babies and we are limiting, or blaming the sexual life of
the teenage girls in the future.
The feminism that seems to be only something that bears the woman,
in no way is it a women’s issue.
It is simply the theory that developed in the last 5 centuries
and that ultimately seeks the dispensing.
What is the dispensing? The fact that it does not matter
if one is a woman, male, if she has certain sexual desires or choices,
if you have certain genitalia or others, if you have such a body shape or another.
We must do without that to evaluate people.
People are what they are beyond their sexual bearing,
of its genetics, beyond any of those elements.
To get to that, there is a theory of the emancipation of women
that has a lot of route traveled that has to do with feminism
and many men have to start learning that.
It is necessary to start learning after seeing those numbers,
because if we continue reproducing the model that sustains that vulnerability
of women, that symbolic, material, family, sexual violence reproduced
in society, we are not only responsible, but in the case
of the males, we are accomplices in the privilege framework, because
Given the numbers I showed, we men suffer much less,
proportionally, or have, at birth less likely to suffer
those vulnerabilities that we talked about.
Terminology is very important because it locates us.
Machismo is the theory that seeks to place women in a place of inferiority.
The hembrismo is exactly the opposite.
It is important that we know these words.
What does hembrism mean? It is the belief that women
they are per se superior to men.
What is misogyny? The hatred of women, which is very present
in our societies in many ways. Some more subtle and others more profound.
What is feminism? The theory of the emancipation of half the world.
And what is feminism? It is the terminology used by those
actors that are in a place of privilege that can not stand the existence
of feminism because the loss of privilege harms them.
Feminism is not the opposite of machismo.
This is usual and it is necessary to repeat it until the satiety.
Feminism is a theory of the emancipation of half the world.
Machismo is the theory, the carrying and the practice of the oppression of that half
of the world.
We must end this fear of the word feminism because it seems
that feminism is always a hatred of men.
The new masculinities assume the reality of the numbers that I showed them
and they show that we can not remain oblivious to that reality
and those inequalities.
We have to take charge and for that we need to build another form of
masculinity that does not imply ceasing to be male and does not imply the sexual option.
Within the framework of the new masculinities there is a very important current of
heterosexual men who see the material evidence of
these vulnerabilities and they say “I do not want to participate in this logic of oppression of
nobody, I do not feel comfortable “and, at the same time, in that process the possibility
to build another way of being men that does not need to be a provider of anything,
stop crying or showing weaknesses, showing their vulnerabilities, etc.
The new masculinities is the form currently assumed by the search
by many men to subscribe to the theory that it is necessary
more feminism to build equality in relation to the world and women.
And this is very important: feminism is not assaulting men.
Feminism is to stop being its victim.
Feminism is the possibility of becoming aware of structural numbers.
To put it in numbers, we can also say it in social practices.
I’m going to tell an anecdote about my daughter, who just turned 17, Aitana.
It said: “Pa, how difficult is this, I want to travel when I grow up and I’m
permanently afraid of being passed on to the things that happened to the girls
in Ecuador, who were raped and murdered a short time ago. “
How different it is to be a man with respect to being a woman, because my other son, Emiliano,
He thinks about traveling and is not aware of this situation as a real potential
for the portation of a genre. That is, without a doubt, the situation to which
We come in the everyday of the girls have to be aware with whom
They return to the night or with whom they are surrounded.
This does not necessarily happen with males.
It is very important that we understand it, and that a male says so
It is doubly important. That’s why I asked before how much
of men and women had enrolled in this TEDx.
And, always, women, who are the victims of this patriarchal model
are the most willing to listen to this and the males have
more difficulty, more fear to face the new, which is to unlearn,
leave aside many of the things that our parents bequeathed to us.
Many of those were good, but some included
certain sexist logics that are deeply naturalized, incorporated,
that comes from the Latin “made body”, in us and that costs us severely
unlearn and that when these things appear on a coffee table
among boys it seems that anyone who is aware of these processes
of inequality actually has an intention to get up girls by
the feminist discourse and / or actually disbelieve or is a gay disguised because
You can not defend the rights of women being heterosexual.
I’m sorry to disappoint you. The reality is that it is necessary to assume
the responsibilities that we have as half of the world, and I also mean
to men, to subscribe to all the struggles that imply the possibility
that women do not continue to be murdered and violated.
In micromachismos, in the literature they are called, the processes
systematic that are naturalized and that involve from the humorada
among men about certain deficiencies of women
or the public journeys that imply the permanent fear of harassment on the part of
of males, that which is vulgarly called saying cute things to girls, etc,
and that many women feel it as a form of symbolic violence beyond
of words that are used because a woman does not know when it starts
by a compliment and when it ends in a symbolic or material aggression.
There are many myths in relation to masculinities, which is important
unravel, understand that masculinity is a historical format and that of it
way that our parents and grandparents formed masculinities
and that were different from ours, without a doubt, that of our children should be
surpassing what we are in generational terms.
And in order to be truly superior, we must set aside the model of
symbolic violence that involves the relationship between boys and girls and that includes
that we can not do a lot of things together. Still many of us
we are part of family reunions where at a certain moment they separate
men and women to talk separately. It seems that we talked
of different things or there is a thematic segmentation as if women
they could not talk about politics, football or other things and men we could not
talk about clothes and if any of these conversations would destroy our
masculinity and / or femininity. You have to start breaking that kind of thing
There are many things we can do together, men and women, because that is what we do together
is going to build, in some way, that need for equity and from that point
end of arrival relevant and necessary that has to do with the dispensing.
I insist on what is the dispensing. It is to consider the other beyond
of the place of desire, of the couple, of the taste in terms of affectivity
and intimacies, but I mean in the world that people are not
chosen for a job if they have the potential or not to get pregnant
or if they have logics of cultural functioning of women different from men.
I think thinking about new masculinities includes taking this chart.
Machismo is a developed, historical, incorporated and naturalized form
very unconscious, which is present in many of us, the males,
of submission of different forms of women.
Feminism seeks equality and hembrism is a doctrine of rejection
that of so much violence suffered many times by women it hits the turn
and generates contempt and disvalue to the different forms of masculinities.
I put it on purpose before finishing the chart so that we become aware
that this is not just numbers. These are people.
Billions of people who are included in a destination format
crossed by its genre. We have to come to a society where
sexual choices, biological portrayals and sex do not
the difference for a job, for a link, etc.
That women and men can relate beyond the body
that we have.
The places of development of inequality, of inequality and of
systematic exclusion in relation to women have to do with education
the language is deeply marked by machismo and the forms of contempt,
just think about the insults and memorize them.
It will catch your attention to know that most of them are feminine.
And bad words have a feminine charge because the language
It also has history and has been built by social subjects
that they have loaded into the format of words and communicational forms
the machismo that we inherited. The form of sexuality, of which
I gave an example, which has to do with what we form with different rights
in sexuality and sexual pleasure. Sexual pleasure has been systematically
occluded for women until the 60’s generation, 40 or 50 years ago, and still
many of the women approach sexuality from a place of guilt
and they are visualized and stigmatized by many men from that space.
Work and the economy, where we see in the numbers that we mark, that like
work, women earn approximately one third less in Argentina and this is
more or less similar to different parts of Latin America and the world.
The couple, and the issue of care, which has to do with the woman
in the interior of the house, she spends the most time caring for children,
relatives, etc. and we men become quite the idiots.
It implies an unpaid work that we believe is due to a biological issue
to the woman.
The citizenship. Now we are working in Argentina, 50% men and 50%
of women, a law that I praise deeply, because if it is not for measures of this type
women will never be able to take place, but it still exists in that model
a pathetic circuit of leaving us places to silence them afterwards.
Finally, reproductive health, where women have a central place,
and that refers to continue thinking and discussing safe abortion, especially
for the poorest, who pay the most for linked health problems
to those issues.
To finish, this as a provocation. A rapist is not a sick person, he is the son
healthy patriarchal model that we subscribe many times.
And this wonderful sentence by Angela Davis: “Feminism is the radical idea
who maintains that women are people. “
Nothing else. Thank you very much.
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