My friend sent me a text Adela maravilloso.Pertenece Argentine writer and journalist Eddie Abramovich, who can learn more by visiting the following comments on this page and its cool website.
"Today I want to be a woman for a day" Eddie Abramovich
Being in Darfur and to know what my body feels when it is war booty Sudanese troops.
be in Kosovo and know how it feels when a UN soldier, well paid and fed, I demanded my body in exchange for a ration of food for my children.
Login to court as a lawyer and feel the humiliation of being a secretary's ass look at me instead of my eyes. Log
with my overall health of the cafe> a hospital and check my male colleagues have the most vulgar jokes and stories when I am present. Being
pubescent daughter of a shepherd in northwestern Argentina and hear the boss calls to my mother that I delivered to him tonight.
fifteenth birthday gift and ask my parents silicone tits and see how they grant me without trying to persuade me otherwise. Understand why all my friends also seem to be unhappy, undervalued and neglected until they get their new silicone breasts. Meet
any age over 50 and found out that my husband has out there, between laughter, I'm a fat witch, and try to understand why he never took to tell me that I had become a fat witch. Try to remember when was the last time I bought some nice shoes or praised me, or realized that it had changed my hairstyle. Or at least, the last time you told me a book, movie or news of the day.
Want to go to school to learn to read in Equatorial Guinea, Ghana and Burkina Faso and know how it feels when I say no, I do not need to read to meet with my bare hands every year tillage less profitable.
Go to a police station to report sexual abuse and know how it feels when you doubt my word or I become suspicious.
Go to another police station to report that my husband or boyfriend beats me to ground and try to understand why I wonder if I fell down the stairs. I
one day be a Bosnian woman, or Rwanda, or Juárez (Ciudad Juarez, remember?) or one of the fifteen thousand girls expelled from schools in Tanzania in just three years to get pregnant. Or one of the twenty percent of women admitted to the 27 European Union countries that suffer from some form of domestic violence. Or a U.S. worker or clerk employed in the Japanese automaker that invented the 'total quality control' to experience what it's wait ten years for my union help me in a lawsuit for harassment.
one day I want to have women's eyes to look from there the grotesque poverty of machismo.
nothing I can do this, clear.
I can hardly imagine, and so much horror, so furious outrage that provokes me, I think that only women can have the courage and the guts to resist this, if they survive, move on.
is neither necessary nor useful, nor, I imagine being a woman for a day. Women are, in other women equally brave enough voices authorized. All this is said, reported, collected, documented, recorded. All this has been time and again called on governments, international agencies, democracies, autocracies and theocracies.
second thought, I now prefer to be Galicia.
Yes, Galician, because I've heard that in Galicia has formed an organization of men, the first dedicated to combating and eradicating sexism. Gallegos, the jokes, shaggy eyebrows and accent ranger, were pioneers in groups and forums against the machismo which is then replicated throughout Spain.
around here I have a peer group of men, we could go today with that sign that says 'do not be macho, be a man' I saw on television in marches in Lugo and Santiago de Compostela.
I want, within a year, on March 8, the list of victories for women's equality is, once and for all, much más larga que la lista de agravios.
Hoy no seré mujer, ni siquiera por un segundo. Pero me sentiré cerca de cada mujer. Y de cada hombre que se sienta cerca de cada mujer. Muy cerca.
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