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\nLet\u2019s start with a fanciful supposition: what if the government decrees by law that all men between 15 and 20 years of age have to be circumcised. It\u2019s obvious that this is inconceivable, on the one hand, because in an obscure and undisputable manner the supposedly laic country in which we live assumes the mandates of the Catholic Church, and a phobia of Islam or Judaism. Secondly because there are very few cases in which the lawmakers, principally men, legislate against themselves if it is not in the form of a common good. That is to say, they can raise taxes so that the state has more resources; but endure physical torture simply because it\u2019s \u201cright\u201d? I\u2019m afraid not. <\/p>\n

But let\u2019s carry on playing the impossible and imagine that the law will be passed. There will be furious protest demonstrations, and no doubt there will be many women in these. From mothers anxious about their sons, brides, brothers and worried friends, to women against ablation and defenders of civil rights. It would become patently obvious that the law made no sense, and that the option of being able to take decisions about one\u2019s own body is a universal right that ought to be inalienable.<\/p>\n

In contrast, the abortion law has led to the phenomenon that as women we’re more than accustomed to: the famous “this has nothing to do with you”. Standing at the bar, beer in hand, going into a tirade about the bastard Gallard\u00f3n, that it\u2019s worse than in Franco\u2019s time… many men don\u2019t have a problem in showing their solidarity and commenting amongst colleagues that it\u2019s an unjust law. What they don\u2019t see is that it\u2019s unjust for them. And even more curiously they still struggle to put two and two together and understand that if their girlfriend ends up pregnant by surprise or by accident, they\u2019ll also have to take care of the infant (or ought to). A little kid what\u2019s more that might have spina bifida. But the worst thing is that they have no conception of how the abortion law also infringes their rights as citizens, because it limits the right to choose for oneself, and that in any case, the limitation of the rights of one group of citizens is a limitation of society in general, an impoverishment in any egalitarian political and social system. <\/p>\n

I had this same impression not so long ago visiting the exhibition of the Guerrilla Girls at the Alh\u00f3ndiga in Bilbao (extended until 19 January) that Leire Vendes Aldabaldetreku talked about here<\/a>. GoogleMaps indicates that there are 750 metres of the Alh\u00f3ndiga at the Museum of Fine Arts in Bilbao and 950 at the Guggenheim. Well, the majority of the people who visit, manage, legislate and coordinate these two centres stroll through the exhibition of the Guerrilla Girls with a carefree grin on their face and that expression of \u201cthis has nothing to do with me\u201d. The fact that the Museum of Fine Art has not dedicated even one of its 48 individual exhibitions in the last ten years to a woman, or that at the Guggenheim only 9% of the pieces in the collection are by female artists, has nothing to do with the Guerrilla Girls. The gentlemen in charge of such honourable centres will tell you that they are completely different things. If you ask why, their deep reply will probably be that each place is different, that New York is another world and that here what is valued is (sacrosanct) quality. Or something similar. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m sorry to say this, but women aren\u2019t subjects of society for all these gentlemen who consider that abortion is our problem, that invisibility is our problem and that being treated as incapable is our problem. We are not social subjects because if male chauvinism affects 51% of society and as a result of these attitudes or lack of positioning by the remaining 49% (my apologies to the exceptions) that it\u2019s still not considered a social problem, it must be because we aren\u2019t part of this society. Eliminate the problematic object eliminate the problem. At this stage any other explanation seems to me incomprehensible. Up to what point will we let them eliminate?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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