Mariana Iglesias
08/13/2021 18:28
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 08/13/2021 6:28 PM
Aníbal Fernández
did it again
.
Two years ago, the former chief of staff said that rather than leaving children in the care of María Eugenia Vidal, he preferred to leave them with the femicide Ricardo Barreda.
Now he tried to defend Alberto Fernández with a convoluted argument of gender violence.
For days the president has been criticized for having held meetings in Olivos when
no one could meet
due to the
mandatory isolation
due to the pandemic.
And this Thursday a photo of the birthday celebration of his partner Fabiola Yáñez was added, celebrated on July 14, 2020. In the image is the couple with
nine more people, all without chinstraps
.
The celebration of Fabiola Yañez at Quinta de Olivos during the strict quarantine last year.
Faced with the silence of the president,
the former chief of staff sought to come out to justify it
.
And he said: "If she made a birthday in violation of sanitary regulations, it is a problem that does not concern the public function. Ready, it's over. There is nothing else. They want to put the complication because the lady made a meal, which can be open to criticism. "
Then she asked: "What is the husband going to do, as in the Middle Ages, 1,200 years ago,
arrive and screw it up
because he made a mistake of these characteristics?
How is it resolved?
The husband arrives at the house, the woman organized a birthday and the husband takes her to the room and
hits her with two pineapples
because she made the mistake. "
And he continued: "Fabiola is not a member of the public service. She was wrong and well ... know how to apologize. You want to make this a phenomenal thing and it continues to be something that
the President's wife
did
that he is not going to solve like millions did. years with a
domestic sanction
. The handsome men who were waiting for the mines under the lamppost died in 900, "added Aníbal Fernández.
Did the former chief of staff
think it was modern and progressive to say something like that
? Did you assume that your argument had a gender perspective? Her defense strategy - Aníbal Fernández is a lawyer - is to
blame her
. And then a crossroads opens: punishment or submission. As there was no "domestic sanction", that is, the president chose not to "screw it up" or hit "two pineapples", he became a victim. And then it is not your fault. The reversal of guilt is a resource of the violent.
The proposal is extreme.
Aníbal Fernández resorts to the worst argument
, that of gender violence, the resort of blows as an option.
But Fernández is not so obvious or linear, and in a play on words he
tries not to sound "macho"
and that is why he refers to the "Middle Ages" and the "handsome men of 900".
For what?
If we are in the 21st century and that should no longer happen ... What is the point of this resource?
Is the president to thank for not hitting his partner?
The worst thing is that
gender violence persists
and there are still many "handsome" in the 21st century.
There is a femicide every day, and hundreds of complaints of abuse and mistreatment.
"During the strictest months of the quarantine in 2020, the rate of violent crimes on public roads decreased notably, but
the same did not happen with femicides.
Throughout the year the number of femicides and transfemicides and the number of requests for Assistance linked to gender-based violence remained as high as ever, "
Natalia Gherardi, head of the Latin American Gender and Justice Team (ELA)
, tells
Clarín
.
"I find it frustrating that with all that we believe we have advanced, people with public responsibilities and opinion formers
continue to trivialize violence in couples in the context of comments that seek to explain the inexplicable
. It is unacceptable, among other reasons, because that is the violence that precedes the largest number of femicides that have occurred in Argentina since we have official data, which the State began to produce because we demanded it from civil society in 2015. Before, we had no data. Violences, yes, before and after, "he adds. -. That is why it cannot be trivialized: because it is far from being a problem of the past. It remains a current and urgent problem despite efforts being made to address it. "
The women in the cabinet were silent. "Marital punishment is despicable behavior, typical of the stereotype of those who see
men as institutions and women as subjects of their power,
" Aníbal Fernández wrote hours later in a tweet regarding the rejection of his phrases. In any case, the trendic topic throughout the day was not Aníbal Fernández but
#Fiambrola
: that's what the opponents on Twitter call Fabiola Yañez disparagingly.