When we women get sick, we still have a double burden.

I'm leaving the play. Women of Radio, written by playwright and screenwriter Cristina Clemente, and I get emotional and can't stop thinking about Gisela, the fantastic woman who died at 51 from breast cancer. And how she would have loved the play and how we would have peed ourselves laughing together because the play also makes you laugh a lot. Because just as the women the play is inspired by say, the important thing is to laugh at yourself, even in the worst moment. Gisela avoided support groups, but I would have convinced her to see it and she would have agreed 100% with everything explained: the experiences of three women going through breast cancer. A play with three female protagonists that is absolutely universal. And although it shouldn't be pointed out, I want to, because when this happens, when there are three women on the bill talking about a medical issue that almost 100% affects women, there is a tendency to classify it as fiction "for women." And no. Stories with female protagonists are just as universal as, for example, a play like The inheritance in which all the protagonists are men and the problems only affect them as a homosexual collective. And no one considers that The inheritance It's a play "for men."

There are brilliant moments in the play, like when it says enough is enough with the pink ribbons, that breast cancer isn't a Barbie cancer. Or that you don't fight cancer, you live it and have it. Because there are no winners or losers. And that all too often women who suffer from breast cancer encounter incomprehension and even abandonment from their male partners. Because too many men, when their partner's illness strikes, flee in the form of depression and demand to be the caretaker, or literally leave home. This is a painful but very real fact. With breast cancer and with so many serious health situations, women often can't afford to be the ones taking care of them. And it's a fact that is reflected both in the testimony of women who have experienced it and in surveys. There are always positive experiences, but the inequality between how men and women deal with serious illnesses in their partners remains quite brutal.

Because we must continue to remember that when women get sick, we still have a double burden. That of the illness and that of living it as women. Because there is bias when it comes to treating us (ask, ask about the subject of breast reconstructions, for example), when it comes to living it (hey, we are sick, but we have to look great and stand up for ourselves and continue taking care of everyone) and when it comes to communicating it, it is World Breast Cancer Day.

I fell in love with the three leading women in the play, brilliantly played by Àngels Gonyalons, Sara Espígul and Sara Diego and directed by Sergi Belbel. I fell in love and I will always remember them.