“Now I can vote null without regret”, wrote a participant in a feminist chat on July 4; and finished: “
The story comes from afar and I will try to summarize it by differentiating two currents within feminism. Although they agree on many things: combating gender violence and the wage gap, recognizing care as work, defending the right to abortion…, there are important differences between the currents that we can call equality and diversity. The first considers it essential to abolish the industries that use poor women as merchandise and degrade the dignity of all: prostitution, pornography, renting wombs. It also fights against the sexism inherent in religious fundamentalisms. In all these matters, the feminism of diversity is much more nuanced, hesitant or, if you like it more, contradictory. He is much more comfortable with the LGTBI agenda.
And what does Summar say? His program goes all out on these topics. Regarding prostitution, just a passing mention: socio-labor insertion plan for those who practice it, but without questioning it; about pornography, surrogacy, or the rights of all women, no matter what religion they (or their families) belong to, not a word. The reason is very simple: the parties that make up the platform do not agree with each other. Inspired by postmodern ideologies that resemble neoliberalism like two drops of water, some advocate that women, invoking “freedom”, rent out their vaginas or wombs and produce children to sell or give away, or in the name of “diversity”, subject themselves to such an oppressive religious fundamentalism, even if it goes by another name, like the one against which we Spanish women fought under Franco.
The trans issue has emerged, in this dispute, as a new battle horse. Public opinion believes that only the rights of a minority are at stake, so small that their legal status will have no consequences for third parties. They don’t see that the problem is one of concept: if we accept (and this is how the trans law enshrines it) that it is a woman who claims to be one, this has two effects that are real Trojan horses for equality.
First, sexist stereotypes are enshrined: a woman is no longer the person of the female sex, who hopefully is free to behave as she wants, but consists of “becoming the object of men’s desire” (Elizabeth Duval dixit ).
Second, policies cannot be made in favor of women, because it is not clear who she is. When Sumar demands, in its program, “gender parity”, what is it referring to? In their lists, biological men – converted, without any requirement, into legal women – occupy positions intended for women; and one of them displays, as I said at the beginning, the representation of feminism, without any experience of what it is to be a woman, nor any feminist trajectory. It’s like appointing a bullfighter as Minister of Culture.
For all these reasons, I will not be taking the Sumar ballot on July 23. Which one then? Although there are two feminist parties (that of Lidia Falcón, and the recent Feministes al Congrés), neither of them is present. And although I understand feminists who defend abstention or a null vote, it seems dangerous to me as things are.
I have almost always voted for the PSC-PSOE, because it is the party that has approved the laws on abortion, equality and against gender violence; because he declares (even if he doesn’t prove it much) against prostitution and surrogacy; because he has in his bosom (even if he has belittled them lately) very valuable feminists. I know that in this legislature he has put feminism between the horses’ legs, to please his partners. But I also know of another party that, if we don’t stop it, will give free rein to its people to destroy us like Àtila’s horse.
