WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE FRANCE - news journal UPDATE - (en) France, Monde Libertaire - ML Editorial No. 1870: Bad breezes (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 The world is changing, the wind is turning, words are being released,

but the wind, as we see with the weather vanes, sometimes changes
direction. The recent American elections have shown us, if there was any
need, that nothing is ever acquired and that all social conquests must
be defended. Constantly. And especially those of feminists. In the era
of #Metoo, while in France, the right to abortion has just been
constitutionalized, there are still some serious blind spots regarding
the condition of women, the rights of more than half of humanity. And
the advances won through hard struggle are threatened. ---- In many
places on our planet, girls are deprived of school, women are forbidden
to speak, to sing, to walk in the street. In our country, one dies at
the hands of her murderer of a spouse every three days. On public
transport, all of them have had to deal with a perverted groper or have
had to deal with sexist comments in the street. So much less paid than
their male counterparts for equal work... The Prévert-style inventory
could take up the entire monthly magazine that we would never finish
listing the crimes and inequalities suffered by women, our partners,
wives, daughters, mothers, friends, colleagues...

It is endemic, systemic and it will take more than one day a year to
eradicate this filth. Capitalism, which promises to manage everything
like a "good father", as we know, is intrinsically patriarchal. Built on
unequal power relations, it suits it, sexism, it feeds on it,
strengthens itself.

"And how many times can a man turn his head / And pretend that he just
doesn't see?" (and how many times can a man turn his head / And pretend
he doesn't see?) sang Bob Dylan in Blowin' in the Wind. So, what, guys?
Do we continue to wait, to procrastinate, to put things into
perspective, to play Sunday allies as long as it doesn't call anything
into question or almost anything? Or, finally, do we stop hiding
oppressions under the carpet of doubt or euphemism... And we listen, we
help, we believe. We support, we observe each other, we educate each
other...

We must attack sexism head-on, not give it any respite wherever it is,
women, men, non-binary, we all have work to do so that times that change
come.

https://monde-libertaire.fr/?articlen=8256
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