There is an age from which, we have been told, women stop being relevant. We disappear, we become invisible just because we have stopped being fertile. Reproduction or death, tied to the imposition of the duty to be pleasing to the eyes of men. We don't feel that way, of course, it's how they continue to represent us in high-impact media: series, films, advertising. The idealization of youth (to which many of us wouldn't return even if crazy), the creation of needs derived from the desire to preserve it at all costs, and the lack of women's voices telling us the real and honest experience of what it means to grow old create a terribly cruel imaginary for those of us who are still alive past forty, fifty, sixty. Smear yourself with creams, exercise, starve, mutilate yourself.

We commemorate March 8th again this year, with almost the same demands, or even worse, insisting that we don't want to take steps backward. Feminism seems like Sisyphus trying to push a boulder uphill over and over again. Today, one of the reasons that makes progress in rights and the consolidation of those already achieved more difficult is the digital world. Because it's not just that it has a sexist bias, but that by its very nature it amplifies and multiplies it. As we explain in today's dossier, the examples are numerous and the reasons obvious. One is that the digital universe is dominated by white heterosexual men, both the owners of the main companies in the sector and those who program and work in these companies. These men train the algorithms with the inherent gender bias, based on their interests and concerns, and they don't even find it strange that this bias exists, nor do they know how to detect it.

It's not that they don't address her formally; it's that they treat her like an idiot. Or worse, like a little girl. She, who has lost count of the decades she's spent working, striving, constantly adapting to a changing reality, has to put up with this pair of idiots who show her cowardly contempt. Yes, cowardly, because they certainly wouldn't confront someone with their same vitality, or even a man, no matter how big or tall. It's ageism, but also sexism, forming a repugnant mixture that falls like sticky tar on the women who suffer it. Imagine being sixty, seventy, eighty years old and having these young guys come along and lecture you. Or worse: telling you things as if you didn't understand, or as if you didn't touch, or as if you had no idea how the world works. Back then, you did enough educating the men around you, patiently and pedagogically showing them how they should treat you and other women. Putting them in their place, dodging them, and avoiding them when you sensed they were dangerous was something, but now, now that it's been so long since you took to the streets to protest the criminalization of adultery, now that you've stood up and, along with so many other women, entered offices, political parties, universities, government offices, and other institutions to win your own independence, now that it's been so long since you won the right to be a person, these pathetic fools come along and treat you with such contempt. Don't they have mothers? Don't they have grandmothers? Has no one ever taught them how to behave in society? It's not that you've become invisible, as they say happens when you get older. I wish they wouldn't even see you and would just leave you alone, but it's even worse. You bother them. You can tell by the way they look at you, the way they wrinkle their noses. It's not so different from what used to happen, when the burdensome nature of this non-reproductive stage turned you into a useless old thing worthy of being relegated to a corner. They laugh, like skunks, if you mispronounce a word when they serve you in any establishment; they speak to you slowly and shouting as if all old women were deaf and slow-witted, they tell you grandmother Without being able to answer "Grandma Auntie" because they'll still think you're crazy. If they have to come fix an appliance at your house, prepare yourself for a lot of explanations full of technical jargon, all to pave the way for the exorbitant price they're going to charge you. The last idiot who came addressed you in diminutives: "See that little snail, Grandma?" What should you do? Bite your lip and walk away, or you'll spend the whole day arguing and getting indignant. "What a disappointment," another one writes when you demand that he fulfill his obligations. Ageist and sexist emotional blackmail is what these kids often practice on you, because they think they have the right to take advantage of older women like you. Even more so if they find you alone.

Gender issues have been present in human societies since long before the Paleolithic era. And they remain very poorly resolved.

This week we commemorated November 25th, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. While the most explicit forms of male violence dominate the headlines, it is worth remembering that gender-based violence takes many forms, some more subtle but equally deplorable. Therefore, I want to mention the Manifesto of values by Women for Quantum (W4Q), which challenges us on how scientific and academic environments reproduce dynamics of exclusion and symbolic violence that render women invisible.

Reality repeats itself to the point of boredom, and that boredom can be a deterrent when it comes to writing about what's wrong, what's unfair, what's discriminatory. That's why, much to my chagrin, we need to be tiresome.

I read the letter published by Quim Morales completely denying the comedian Carlota Palà (Charlie Pee) in Critical (who accused him of sexual and workplace abuse). Regarding workplace treatment, she says that at the beginning of the season she "realized" that another employee was being paid more for the same work. Morales clarifies that, "the months that Joel Díaz reduced his participation in the program, the €600 per month in which his remuneration was reduced was distributed equally among the three collaborators of the program, at the rate of €200 per month. So, although Mrs. Palà earned more than one of these colleagues (5 the same amount as the other collaborators, Mr. Xavier Pérez Esquerdo and Mr. Jordi Ramoneda.

Gender inequalities emerge very early. Children are already aware of this at the age of 10 and 11 and have some things to say about it: among their proposals is the end of violence and discrimination (especially sexism and racism), equality between people (including between boys and girls and also at school) and ending aesthetic pressure. This is what they ask for in theChildren's Agenda, a document prepared after consulting more than 5,000 children in Barcelona, ​​​​which includes 11 demands, 30 proposals and more than 100 ideas from children to improve the well-being of children.