jueves, 2 de junio de 2011

What is Feminism? What is Machoism? What is right or wrong?



We could define "Feminism" as a collection of movements aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights and equal opportunities for women. People have often called it differently, thinking that the movement was composed by a minor group of crazed women who had stepped away from their rightful path, often called "lesbians" or "tomboys". There's no doubt lesbians and tomboys were between them, but that's not the correct definition of Feminism. Feminism simply wants the woman's status to increase, settling it at the same hight as the man's. Everyone knows there are radicals, like in every group of people, but one should not settle for something like that. The idea here is that women want to be seen with the same importance as man... what about the men?
Machoism, sadly, comes from the Spanish word "Machismo", "Macho" meaning "real man", "strong man", "the right kind of man". It's defined as: prominently exhibited or excessive masculinity. Just that? I don't think so...
Machoism leads to certain dangerous believes like the one where a woman is an inferior being and should be kept "at home" at her "rightful place". It's strongly linked to the Christian Church model of "existing" in order to "clean", "make food", "have children" and little more... But, again, it hurts me to say we do not only find that in the Christian Church, but also in the Jewish community and the entire Arab world. It may not be so radical, these days, in the first cases, but we can still find a lot of it in the third. It's sad that so many different cultures have the same opinion about women... the Femenin Goddess... Mother Earth... The Moon... what is wrong with her? Isn't she beautiful? Are you scared?
Finally, "Igualitarism" is a word which I decided to translate roughly out of Spanish's "Igualitarismo", meaning "egalitarianism". If you don't mind, I'm going to define this concept myself: there's a Yin and a Yang, the opposites, Moon and Sun... and they are completely different... but which one is better than the other? No one knows... It's impossible to know... There's one only solution here... Should they be better than the other one, necessarily? Or could we just see them as the same? Igualitarism is my utopia and I'm going to fight for it. Neither Yin nor Yang deserves to be run down... for there would be no Yin without Yang and no Yang without Yin.

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