{"id":154428,"date":"2016-02-26T23:00:31","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T23:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.honeybadgerbrigade.com\/?p=154428"},"modified":"2016-02-26T09:06:02","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T09:06:02","slug":"the-situation-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.honeybadgerbrigade.com\/2016\/02\/26\/the-situation-in-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"The situation in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello Badgers, Cassius here again.<\/p>\n

I’ve told you a few things before about\u00a0my experiences with feminism and men’s rights in Spain, but now I would\u00a0like to paint a broader picture for you, in case you are not familiar with\u00a0the situation: Feminism is mainstream, it is a must for every political\u00a0party and to disagree with a feminist is exposing yourself to lots of\u00a0“machista” insults (“machista” being some kind of “misogynist”: male\u00a0superiority, basically) and social isolation.<\/p>\n

Domestic violence is a term\u00a0that is almost never used, the preferred one being “gender violence” or\u00a0even “machista violence”. The movement is very strong here, and as I said,\u00a0unanimously defended by all major political parties. Most women that I know\u00a0consider themselves to be feminists, but they also insist that feminism is\u00a0“gender equality”, I think they never really reflected on what the data\u00a0says, they just go along with the current.<\/p>\n

We even had a Ministry of\u00a0Equality (now it’s part of Public Health and Social Services) that\u00a0basically made feminist propaganda and fought “sexism in language”.<\/p>\n

The law\u00a0against domestic violence has solved nothing and has created dozens of\u00a0false reports of rape and violence (according to a documentary that was\u00a0never aired in Spain, 400 false reports a day, most of which are never\u00a0prosecuted and therefore don’t count as “false reports”, officially.<\/p>\n

Male\u00a0suicide triples female suicide, and the marital status has disappeared from\u00a0suicide reports, because so many of them were listed as “in process of\u00a0divorce”. Associations of divorced parents try to do what they can to raise
\nawareness about the “express courts” that judge and sentence men accused of
\ndomestic violence.<\/p>\n

Boys are falling behind at school and nobody gives a\u00a0damn.<\/p>\n

We’ve been bombarded with propaganda for breast cancer lately:\u00a0campaigns, Facebook profile pictures, official races, pink water bottles\u00a0and egg cartons. November is just a silent month. Nobody gives a\u00a0damn about prostate or testicular cancer either.<\/p>\n

But yes, feminism fighst\u00a0for equality, and they are oppressed, not a powerful lobby. You also know\u00a0what happened when the police (or to be more precise, the “Guardia Civil”)\u00a0tried to publish an inclusive poster on Twitter, showing both a man and a\u00a0woman as possible perpetrators of domestic violence: they received so much\u00a0criticism that they had to remove it. No concern for male victims: Movember\u00a0and the International Men’s Day receive no coverage whatsoever, while a\u00a0major demonstration against “Machista violence” takes place in Madrid, and\u00a0any journalist or politician who makes minor criticisms about it gets the\u00a0“misogynist” treatment. They even invented now the term “neo-machista”,\u00a0which basically means anyone who tries to oppose their views with\u00a0arguments. That would include MRAs. As you see, it’s still a powerful “tag”\u00a0that nobody wants to wear.<\/p>\n

They insist on equating “women” with\u00a0“feminists”, and “anti-feminist” with “misogynist”. Victim blaming,\u00a0mansplainning, manspreading… we’ve got everything here. They did their\u00a0homework, we even have our local version of #KillAllMen: “Al var\u00f3n,\u00a0castraci\u00f3n” (Castration for males) and “Machete al Machote” (Machete for\u00a0machos).<\/p>\n

Fortunately, not everything is lost. Some journalists (men AND\u00a0women), some writers and some political figures are starting to move and\u00a0defy feminism and their extreme views; A Voice for Men is getting\u00a0translated into Spanish, and we have help from Spanish-speaking countries\u00a0in Latin America, as well; in many feminist journal articles, I see more\u00a0and more comments from men and women destroying their arguments and\u00a0exposing them as what they are: radicals and fanatics.<\/p>\n

But it’s still very\u00a0Orwellian: I have to carefully choose with whom I talk about these things,\u00a0of course. For now, only my mother, my father and my sister (my sister is\u00a0an ardent advocate now, and heaven knows that she can have much more\u00a0influence than I can), and a male friend of mine. You have to be careful,\u00a0as this is a quick way of losing friends and work opportunities; I have to\u00a0bite my tongue every day, I can’t share, I can’t discuss, I can’t raise\u00a0awareness. For now.<\/p>\n

YOU are making it possible I think that until something\u00a0changes in America, Canada and other countries, nothing will really change\u00a0here. So carry on, you are doing great work \ud83d\ude42 I loved your video on Male\u00a0suicide an mental health, it was just beautiful and insightful: I’m\u00a0considering translating its main points for my father, who is starting to\u00a0fall into depression, I’m afraid, and would benefit from it.<\/p>\n

Lastly, I\u00a0wanted to share with you the text of a picture that a female friend
\npublished today: “Love advice: Choke your prince until he becomes blue”.
\nNice, isn’t it?<\/p>\n

Cheers, Cassius<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"reddit\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>by <\/span>\"feather\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hello Badgers, Cassius here again. I’ve told you a few things before about\u00a0my experiences with feminism and men’s rights in Spain, but now I would\u00a0like to paint a broader picture for you, in case you are not familiar with\u00a0the situation: Feminism is mainstream, it is a must for every political\u00a0party and to disagree with a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":152795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"libsyn-item-id":0,"libsyn-show-id":0,"libsyn-post-error":"","libsyn-post-error_post-type":"","libsyn-post-error_post-permissions":"","libsyn-post-error_api":"","playlist-podcast-url":"","libsyn-episode-thumbnail":"","libsyn-episode-widescreen_image":"","libsyn-episode-blog_image":"","libsyn-episode-background_image":"","libsyn-post-episode-category-selection":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_thumbnail":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_theme":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_height":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_width":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_placement":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_download_link":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_download_link_text":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_custom_color":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-explicit":"","libsyn-post-episode":"","libsyn-post-episode-update-id3":"","libsyn-post-episode-release-date":"","libsyn-post-episode-simple-download":"","libsyn-release-date":"","libsyn-post-update-release-date":"","libsyn-is_draft":"","libsyn-new-media-media":"","libsyn-post-episode-subtitle":"","libsyn-new-media-image":"","libsyn-post-episode-keywords":"","libsyn-post-itunes":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-number":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-season-number":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-type":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-title":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-author":"","libsyn-destination-releases":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data-enabled":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data-input-enabled":false,"libsyn-post-episode-premium_state":"","libsyn-episode-shortcode":"","libsyn-episode-embedurl":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[767],"tags":[30,40,73,79,220,282,885],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honeybadgerbrigade.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154428"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honeybadgerbrigade.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honeybadgerbrigade.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honeybadgerbrigade.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honeybadgerbrigade.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.honeybadgerbrigade.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154429,"href":"https:\/\/www.honeybadgerbrigade.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154428\/revisions\/154429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honeybadgerbrigade.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honeybadgerbrigade.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honeybadgerbrigade.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honeybadgerbrigade.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154428"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honeybadgerbrigade.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=154428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}