'A Leap into the Void' by Jaume Pla Forteza
It seems unbelievable, but here we are. Just like the winter time change, they intend to take us back twenty years with no option to recover them with the change of season. Part of our society watches in astonishment the denial of the inconvenient reality that being a woman entails. Even with the fortune of not having been born on the bad side of the world, as Pau Donés Cirera sang in El lado oscuro (The Dark Side), in our country, they remain in a clearly inferior position to men. The figures point to our planet as a scenario in which the givers of life are, basically and to summarize, "cannon fodder." Therefore, one questions whether combating that situation should be counterproductive, since we are clearly getting worse. The semantic battle distorts thoughts and confuses infinitely.
Every word must be measured and it seems that the family will be the manger that harbors sexist violence. At this point, we also don't know—although we can imagine—what model of family will be the, never better said, blessed one. Contemporary to the opaque gender mask, the official structure for treating equality in general, and that of women in particular, is being systematically and gradually dismantled. In this new omissive dialectic, the specific concept of sexual violence is increasingly distant, along with the sexist one, which can certainly be suffered and endured within the family, but also outside that fashionable sphere.
The truth is that the official figures of female victims, for the sole fact of being women, are terrible. Of the nearly thirty women murdered in Spain by their partners so far this year, Ilham's life was taken in the presence of her twelve-year-old son, on the second Sunday of July. Subsequently, her partner—the aggressor—committed suicide. Now three new underage orphans will remain. The event, which occurred in the Valencian town of Antella, was the subject of divided institutional condemnation the next day. In the Valencian Courts, we could observe the majority of political groups behind a banner that literally read: "LES CORTS CONTRA LA VIOLÈNCIA MASCLISTA" (THE COURTS AGAINST SEXIST VIOLENCE).
The president of the institution, present at the act of condemnation, showed her disagreement by separating herself from the majority message. While I cannot understand her sexist denial, I wonder how many liters of women's blood will need to be shed for them to change their mind. I also don't understand the level of profitability of that position or how one is capable of reaching that vision. That staged division generates a sterile and unfocused debate that, in the long run, only harms women.
Source: Diario de Mallorca | Acento