07/18/2021 8:21 PM
Clarín.com
Opinion
Updated 07/18/2021 8:48 PM
“I never use a condom, until one day I thought it was weird that I didn't get any girl pregnant for all this time. I'm going to always start ending up inside without any kind of problem ”. When his interviewer asked him if the girls never said anything to him, he very loosely replied: “Yes, but I tell them, 'Don't worry, I'm sterile. I have had surgery to not have children ', I tell them and that's it. And when my son comes to me, blessed be ... ". With
27 million followers
on Tik tok,
Naim Darrechi
is the most popular on that social network in Spain. He is also the protagonist of this dialogue, which unleashed a wave of repudiation, led him to lose thousands of followers with a stroke of the pen and reached the court: “Ejaculating inside without consent
is abuse
”Said the Spanish Minister of Equality.
The behavior that Darrechi boasts
is irresponsible
, reveals ignorance - the condom not only prevents pregnancies but also
sexually transmitted diseases
, which are on the rise throughout the world -, it involves
lies and betrayal
and is of a
nauseous
machismo
.
And it has aggravations.
One is that, when the repercussions exploded, the tiktokero apologized saying "I wish that had been cut, and it had not been on the air."
Deep down he
did not regret what he said
but that this had transpired.
The second aggravating factor is that Darrechi is 19 years old.
Young generations,
old prejudices
, archaic mandates with proven validity.
The Mallorcan influencer is not an isolated case. You don't have to raise your hand to exert violence against a woman. The
forms of abuse
are sometimes very subtle. And infinite. In many cases they come from those who should ensure that such abuses do not occur, or from those who would have to guarantee that, if committed, any abuse receives its corresponding sanction. Something like administering justice. Something like this also like not reversing the burden of proof, slipping
suspicions over the victim,
forcing her to almost prove her condition as such, holding her responsible for what happened to her or using arguments and elements of judgment more
typical of the Inquisition
than of the 21st century.
This is illustrated very well by a case, days ago, when the Supreme Court of the province of Buenos Aires reversed a sentence and ordered a trial
"in accordance with the law
and with a
gender perspective
." Faced with the request of the Prosecutor's Office for 15 years in prison in a case for
attempted femicide
, the Court of Cassation had confirmed the sentence of first instance that reduced the sentence to nine months for “
minor injuries
” of the man against his ex-partner, and let him go free.
In the file can be read, for example, how the man had taken her
arm, pulling her toward an open field in full route to hit to throw it
to the ground, trying to
choke her
as she shouted "fucking bitch,
I'll kill
you , I'm going to bleed you out, I'm going to make you suffer, bitch, I'm going to smack you on the head and
I'm going to bleed you
slowly ", or" Now
I'm going to set you on fire, you
fucking bitch and I'm going to make you suffer ", and other situations of the same tenor that appear in the story, until the police finally appeared and the man was arrested.
The prosecutor considered it an attempt at femicide.
The Criminal Court No. 1 of Zárate-Campana rejected that accusation and requested nine months for "minor injuries."
Cassation confirmed this last sentence.
The grounds for changing the accusation read, for example: "
The victim was not convincing
- beyond being accompanied by an extremely distressing story and an incessant crying that
failed to moisten the testimony's cheeks
...". Or "the actions described do not sympathize with that of a person who - physically handicapped by being a woman compared to a man with a robust build ..."
Cases such as that of the tiktokero make clear the importance of tools such as the
Comprehensive Sexual Education
Law
, today of uneven and incomplete application. Faults such as the aforementioned reinforce the need to educate with a gender perspective in all levels of Justice. That is what the Micaela law is for, although it seems that it is not enough. Meanwhile, violence against women continues to fulfill, punctually, with its macabre ritual.