The compliment sunset: from flattery to the example of macho violence | Chronic

By Fedra Abagians

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From April 8 to 14 is the International Week Against Street Harbadment, one of the most naturalized and widespread forms of gender-based violence experienced by 100% of women. The well-known "piropo", long considered socially as a compliment and suffered since childhood, is now considered a form of direct violence. & Nbsp.

According to a survey carried out by Observatory "Now that they see us" street harbadment suffers from 9 years. 100% of women reported having experienced street badual harbadment at least once, and 100% said they have strategies to avoid street harbadment, while 87% say they avoid dark or poorly visited places. 74% of them cross the street in front of a group of men.

Raquel Vivanco, the national reference Popular and dissident feminist tideAnd the president of the observatory, explained to Chronic What "Street harbadment is one of the forms of violence against women, of differences and dissent more naturalized by our society and more accepted as a joke and even a flattery for women." unwanted, perpetrated by one or more persons against a woman or a person who perceives herself as a woman, conducted in places or public spaces or accessible to the public, that directly or indirectly affect and / or disturb her life, dignity freedom, Physical and / or psychological integrity and / or free transit, creating in them intimidation, hostility, degradation, humiliation and / or offensive environment in public spaces, as long as it does not constitute a more severely punished crime. "

Street harbadment can manifest itself in a variety of ways, including shouting, opinions about a woman's body, clothing, physical appearance, and hissing. But according to the president of the observatory: "What configures street harbadment is the woman's lack of willingness to receive it and affect her in her freedoms".

"Street harbadment is one of the forms of violence against women, diversity and dissent more naturalized by our society. (…) What sums up is the lack the will of the woman to receive him and who touches her in her liberties "

For Vivanco "We must be aware that the compliment is harbadment and that women have the right to move freely in public without receiving comments we do not want, which is why we are calling for the urgent treatment of the national law against street harbadment. introduced plus national MP Victoria Donda for four years and who has not yet been put on treatment. "

A law in the city

The city of Buenos Aires was the first to dispose of Law 5,742 on street harbadment, sanctioned in December 2016. "A first complaint was filed by Lucia Cabrera against a taxi driver who harbaded her for three blocks whistling and shouting comments about her physical appearance." The first time, the police officer approached by Lucia did not know that there was the law and did not count the city of Buenos Aires with specific training courses on the subject for the person reported to attend "Vivanco added: "This law requires that training and education be effective."

Although the city still lacks training, training and tools for its implementation, there is no legislation in the rest of the country. "In 2015, National MP Victoria Donda presented a national project to punish street harbadment and has not been dealt with on the site, and we hope this year will be approved so that the state can start to solve the problem "badured Vivanco.

According to the survey conducted, street harbadment is considered a serious problem for women and should be taken in this regard, revealed that 70% said they received a comment about their appearance , 59% have received vulgar gestures, 51% have been the subject of a badually explicit comment, 47% have been publicly persecuted, 37% a man has shown his bads and 27% a Man is badd in front of them.

Vivanco advises, at least in the city of Buenos Aires where the law applies, to file a complaint against at least one security guard or police station in the rest of the country. "is not a crime, as far as there is badual street harbadment and not abuse"he concluded.

The pyrope is one of the many expressions of gender-based violence. The patriarchy that exerts its strength for centuries over women no longer has the same power today. Gradually, the macho reign, the violent abuses and the patriarchal culture that has unjustifiably subjected women, depriving the power to decide on themselves and their bodies, are falling. "The doors of the sky have been opened …", "The paper that envelops you …" o "As your mother will be beautiful …", are the beginning of sentences that today have a final sentence in a society that says enough to patriarchy and will soon fall definitively.