In one of the articles I came across on a Spanish magazine
regarding “piropos”, questioning two women if flirtatious remarks to women are
actually a praise or harassment. Both women are professionals and in their
40’s. One of them completely against them, calling upon the feminist lobby to
take care of this pending issue and the other one considering an exaggeration
and waste of time in something that she did not consider to be a big issue.
It was brought up in the article about a new law in Brussels
where verbal assaults are fined and that it should be considered to do that all
over the world. Throughout the whole article, the behavior of man reactions
towards the physical appearance of a woman is judge and criticized, considered
by one of the woman as a downgrading of woman by her physical appearance.
While reading the article, there was a program on TV1
regarding college parties in Spain, where hidden cameras showed young women on
podiums in discotheques and public parties getting drunk, dancing and getting
undressed in front of hundreds of people.
So my question would be, aren’t we all a little distracted
on the small details and leaving the wider picture out? Shouldn't we be looking
more inside the homes, where the values and education are first taught? We all
want to punish, to fine, to criticize or judge one gender or another. Then lets
fine parents that don't teach their kids public behavior, civic education,
values, lets start at the core of the problem. Or do we want a society afraid
of expressing themselves, living as robots where no expression of any kind can
be shown without being scared of a fine.
Please, can we speak now about positive reinforcement to our
kids, about love, attention and teaching them the best way for them to express
themselves and how to become better citizens of the world.
SVS
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