I'm sick of the word 'feminism' or 'feminist'. And I haven't lost my mind
This weekend was March 8th, I'll say it or I'll explode: I'm sick of the word feminism either feminist either feminismsI wish it wasn't necessary. I haven't lost my mind. The word feminist It is part of my life, it is part of me. But it is tiring to be a feminist. It is tiring to demand. It is tiring to have to be alert. As the great Moran says (yes, Caitlin), women always have one more job and no remuneration: feminist activism. You can be a writer and a feminist. A president of a ladder (yes) and a feminist. A cultural activist and a feminist. A screenwriter... and a feminist. #Whatever... and a feminist.
And it is tiring because at this point in the film it would not be necessary. I already know. The extreme right. The white walkers of fascism that threaten to freeze our hearts. And so many countries where without the Trumpist extreme right, women continue to be subjugated (much more than here) and annihilated. Afghanistan? Who remembers... That is why it is tiring and exhausting. Because things are moving at a global pace that is too slow despite the also real feeling of achieving important advances.
Lately I've been thinking about how this word is used and what its use means. Don't ask me how it happened, but I ended up attending a round table of female lawyers as an audience member and they all talked about the need for justice to be feminist. And the same thing happened in the debate before the play. Dirty, by Bárbara Mestanza, together with the author, the great lawyer Carla Vall and the immeasurable Irene Montero (#Monterofan). There they also asked for justice to be feminist. And I agree, of course! And the same when talking about medicine and also about education. In a series of debates organized by this newspaper with the Department of Feminisms in which I participated, the great clamor was for a feminist education.
Every time I feel it, my brain short-circuits, because, let's see, justice, health, education and the world! are either feminist or they are not. Because when we talk about feminism, let's say it once and for all, we talk about human rights. Of demanding that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights be fulfilled. The compass that guides what is justice throughout the planet (or what it should be). Therefore, if it is not feminist, it is not justice. If it is not feminist, health care does not cure. If it is not feminist, education does not educate. Let us stop adding the label and let us enforce a mandate that is not ideological but universal. Because for me the mistake is to consider feminism a mere ideology and not what it is, the right to equal living conditions for half of the population. It is not an option. It is not a leftist thing. wokeIt's not the obsession of the annoying people on duty. IT'S AN INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZED RIGHT, IOC. Forgive the capital letters, but on the 9th feminists are at their limit. With the batteries of sisterhood charged, but fed up with our fight being only ours. But if you join us soon we will finish it. Seriously, not in a word. Are we there?
