The rule of law is being continually violated in our country by the media when the so-called “television punishment” is exercised; it is mainly applied to politicians or other celebrities. In that elusive thing called “the networks” and whose owners, (we should remember this more often when we use them), are characters that fit the super bad guy in a comic, the penalty is applied to normal people. This is called lynching. And it goes against everything that supports the defense of freedom.
Concepcion Arenal one of the most important personalities of the 19th century and one of our precursors, established a series of principles or values on which the penal system should be based, which have not been surpassed. From the proportion and limits, in time and intensity, of the punishment, to respect for the dignity of the criminal and of course the measures to avoid punishment of the innocent.
These days I have read or heard things that have left me stunned and very worried. Women on the left declared feminists, saying that “we must end the presumption of innocence,” to guarantee, it is assumed that any statement by a woman is true in principle, because if before they were not reliable witnesses, now they are incapable of lying.
Only someone who has not lived through a dictatorship and does not have that empathy that is so requested today and a mere knowledge of history can say something like that. These days it happens that I am writing about Anita Sirgo and the coal women, what happened “when you were guilty until you proved your innocence” the beatings at the police station so that you would recognize, denounce, accept that original guilt.
When I see the condemnations in the media and networks, of any person, in this case it concerns men, but also adolescents who suffer bullying, as before, slander destroyed the credit or honor of any woman who deviated even slightly from the norm, I am It seems terrifying that “the sambenito”, the “pilory”, the “scarlet letter” has returned to the public sphere of democratic countries in that harassing digital agora, which has important and terrible consequences in analog life and now I do not use real life because both are real for those who communicate in them.
Decades of fighting to launch violence observatories, special courts, and a long catalog of resources to protect victims, so that we celebrate a mechanism already used by the inquisition, anonymous denunciation and conviction without evidence.
I have read comments congratulating that there is a virtual space directed by a journalist so that women can anonymously report men, with first and last names of course, who have attacked them in some way? Decades of fighting to launch violence observatories, special courts, and a long catalog of resources to protect victims, so that we celebrate a mechanism already used by the inquisition, anonymous denunciation and conviction without evidence. These will be obtained or not.
I have also heard of “feminist sex.” Who would determine what and how it develops? Sexual freedom implies that there is no normative sex. That human relationships, not just sexual ones, are exactly that, relationships, that is, there are always two or more people involved, each with their personal history and expectations.
And all relationships can cause pleasure, well-being, satisfaction, happiness or pain, discomfort, frustration and a long list of intermediate emotions. It’s called living. And women have the freedom, responsibility and ability to choose how to do it in the circumstances in which we find ourselves, we have given it to ourselves by building feminism.
And I end as I began. Another terrifying phrase that I have read these days “fear is going to change sides.” No, we have worked to live in a world without fear, it is not resentment, spite, or revenge, it is the dream of a world in freedom that makes us declare ourselves feminists.
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