If we analyze it correctly, its more of the same: the value of a woman is given largely by her body, not just by how it is conserved (we better be a size 0) but also by how it is used. The morality of a woman has little to do with compassion, kindness, integrity or ethics and everything to do with kissing and penetrations. In fact, I remember a chat I received in school - the one I attended to be educated with values - but in which they compared women with roses. According to the lecturer, every time a woman has a partner she loses a petal and if she is to have many partners before marriage, the only thing she will have left to offer her husband is a leafless stalk. Obviously, going to college, to become qualified, integral, successful, interesting, funny and a good person is completely secondary, you must be chaste before anything else.
Unfortunately, being good, chaste, pure and dignified means a complete restriction of our freedoms, not only as women but as human beings. Women should not party a lot, have many male friends, talk openly about sex, drink a lot, speak very loudly or dressing with a plunging neckline. The feminist author Jessica Valenti, said: "Apparently, the word "slut" can apply to any activity that does not include cross stitching, praying, or sitting still [...]" [1] That is, there are a number of rigid standards and expectations that women are supposed to comply with, at the minimum deviation of this our morals come into jeopardy.
How many of you have felt inhibited to upload a photo, make a comment or even kiss a guy out of fear of being judged? Still in my 22 years of age, I have friends who make themselves "difficult" to win someone that interests them. Because, of course, an indecisive woman must be convinced and ultimately turns out to be a reward for the lover who courts, this is far more attractive than a determined woman who knows what she wants and does not need anyone to form an opinion for her.
Almost by inertia call of romance to the idea of love proposed by Ricardo Arjona (the great scholar of our time!) In his song "Dime Que No", in which the woman is clearly designed as a trophy for her Romeo, who is more attracted by the challenge that the woman assumes than by herself. We have to become aware of what is behind our prejudices and how much freedom and lacerate the feelings of others. The word "slut" has no other purpose than to humiliate women and empower avoid all dimensions of their lives. Too often we confuse an independent woman and confident with an easy woman, not worthy of being respected as a human being let alone one couple.
We are in a social and cultural period in which the struggle for gender equality have gained much height. But while most people focus to achieve more tangible gains, silent threats we are consumed socially. We have worried so much to revolutionize the structures that we have ignored the most important transformation: the thought. Whenever women are assessed and valued for their appearance, in the broader spectrum of the word, its true essence, who they are, will be relegated to oblivion. Will do little to We'reach gender parity statistics, if in human have not changed the power relations that govern us. Change begins with each of us.
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