Vacation notebook for the feminist man

Welcome to the club of those who defend that two plus two equals four.

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21/08/2025
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2 min

Introduction. Welcome to the club of those who defend that two plus two equals four. Most of us women belong to this club, and have for a long time. We're glad you're here. The more men there are who embrace the word feminist, but not to tie and look good, but de facto, there will be fewer who embrace the word sexist, to flirt and... whatever. So, go ahead, and now I could tell you, sit down and get comfortable, but no. No one here is yours, we have jobs, and as you've already seen, we didn't come here to be comfortable either. And you'll say, dude, and what's the club's advantage? Infinite. Not looking like Elon Musk. Or Donald Trump. Or Margaret Thatcher, or Ayuso, or Abascal. Or Koldo and Ábalos. Or Dani Alves. Or Errejón. Or Bertín Osborne. Or Rubiales. Or Saúl Gordillo. And also being more free. If that's not enough, go to the complementary activity you'll find at the end.

Activity 1: digital interactions. In the "Somlhostia" chat of the eighth-grade alumni soccer team, in the "Comméscosinsmésendins" chat of cousins and second cousins, in the "SenseelManel" chat of coworkers without Manel (their sales manager), and in the "WarriorsoftheUnivers" chat, in each person's message, you detect a shitty sexist message. "Sorry, but that shitty sexist message is unbearable. This is not the place to spread patriarchal shit. Anyone who's a patriarchal shit should just hold their messages and not send them." Block everyone who gets you started on making money by calling you a weakling, a sellout, a traitor, and other delicacies that the newspaper wouldn't let me (and shouldn't) publish. Assume there will be chats where you'll be alone, or almost alone. Thank me for this happening and for sparing you from interacting with unsavory lunatics. Take advantage of your free time by stopping interacting in all those chats by thinking about the family's menus for the entire month, making the grocery list for the entire month, and going shopping for the entire month.

Activity 2: face-to-face interactions. Keep doing what you already do: share mental and household chores with your partner (if you have one, of course), refuse to participate in any public or social event where the majority of participants are men who speak or command, intervene in any situation of sexist violence even if the idiot in question is your colleague with whom you play siblings and cousins to see if they can't make it at the family dinner at the end of summer. For example. If you have doubts about whether it's necessary to do any of these activities, go to the complementary activity.

Complementary activity. Copy the sentence a hundred times "If you're not a feminist, you're a sexist." From the much-missed Itziar Castro. Yes, it corresponds to Activity 1 in the Non-Feminist Man's Workbook. But you're a feminist, and I suppose you don't need one, right?

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