The strategy of silencing women

Mariana Iglesias

08/12/2021 18:10

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Updated 08/12/2021 18:10

“Put misogyny and feminism in the ortho. Both x the same, and without Vaseline ”. "Thanks to little balls like this, they treat women like idiots." "Decadent are feminists like the one who writes #FeminazisNO", "What an idiot this note, typical of the gender inquisition court ... But look for an honest job, you barked !!!", "Alperovich repeatedly raped his niece and everyone, including you, they shut their mouths. HYPOCRITES ”.

 (Some comments on Twitter from the opinion column I wrote about the misogyny of deputies Fernando Iglesias and Waldo Wolff: "The authentic decadent").

Now that the demands of the feminist movements are massive, 

the resistance to an egalitarian world is fierce

and is fought from the most rancid violence.

Silencing women is the strategy.

In the private sphere it is to blows: so far this year there have been 160 femicides, in addition to thousands of complaints of violence and abuse.

In the public sphere it is with insults and disqualifications

. “At this hinge moment, in which women around the world use their collective power to express themselves and amplify their message through social networks, the lack of action of Twitter to guarantee respect for human rights and face violence and abuse does not help women use their voice to generate change but rather

pushes them towards a culture of silence,

”said an Amnesty report in 2018. And it got worse.

"Petera, asshole, fat, falopera, boluda, fat, chorra, troll, mare, idiot, hollow, thief, Mughal, asshole, black, frigid, feminazi"

.

In 2019, more than 85% of the candidates suffered sexist violence in social networks according to a monitoring of political violence by Fundeco, Copppal, Anap and ELA.

"You deserve to be raped in a herd and then dismembered," they wrote to Ofelia Fernández.

Tired of the attacks, the young legislator 

closed her Twitter account

.

She was not the only one who chose to protect herself.

Raising your voice comes at a huge cost to women.

The first note about the complaint 

against Alperovich appeared

in this newspaper on November 22, 2019. It bears my signature: "You have to put a name and a surname on the monster."

There were many more.

It is not worth answering insults, it is worth highlighting lies.

A UNESCO report warns that online

attacks on women journalists "are inextricably linked to disinformation",

and that "

consequences are devastating ”.

In 2019 the UN launched the

Plan of Action against Hate Speeches

: "They have a negative effect on democracy because they

silence voices

."