A-Infos (en) Spaine, CNT, #433: Submissive by vocation - Cristina Cobo Hervás (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Be careful what you drink, they are not going to throw something at you", my 
mother told me when I started dating, more than 30 years ago. Because psychosis 
is intergenerational. It is the presupposition of the existence of an entity, 
abstract and evil, a slave to its drives, crouched at a bar counter, waiting, it 
is the bite that paralyzes the victim to the point of anaphylaxis, it is the 
absence of will, all wrapped up in a clear, resounding and cruel message: BE 
AFRAID. ---- Women, obsessed with occupying the public space that corresponds to 
us, receive contradictory messages regarding the place where we can and where we 
should be. Because the difference is subtle, but poisonous. Patriarchy delimits a 
fence to blur the certainty that, in reality, we live in the fold of what is 
correct. And so we don't forget, he shakes the plowshare and, on occasions, 
shoots to kill. The media spread the seeds of terror, be careful, BE CAREFUL, and 
we learn that what happens to us is our responsibility for going out alone, for 
enjoying ourselves, for wanting to cross the fence. And it's been like that since 
I can remember. And the Alcasser murders come to mind, and the lesson we learn 
from so much tabloid rubbish: they came out ALONE, because that's how the 
patriarchy wants us to feel, alone in a herd, and it wants us at home, and I 
remember Laura Luelmo, murdered for going out for a run alone. And the focus 
continues to be on us, and I review the newspaper library and find that nine out 
of ten campaigns designed to raise general awareness about crimes by chemical 
submission affect us: purple coasters, hair scrunchies that become lids, 
specially designed narrow-mouthed glasses and straw, and I feel like a rescue 
tied with an invisible rope, unable to offer resistance and waiting for the blow 
I deserve for transcending the limits of what I already knew was not allowed.

We have normalized the "do not steal", "do not hit", as a direct warning to the 
executing person. However, in the case of chemical submission, the message tilts: 
"don't let yourself be drugged." And it is necessary to recover the subject of 
direct action, because the opposite is to remain permanently attached to 
self-defense courses, because it is our obligation to always be alert and 
prepared for the next blow. And meanwhile, we read that most of the complaints 
about needlesticks do not report toxic substances in the bodies of the women 
attacked. So what is all this information maelstrom? Who is orchestrating a 
campaign of aggression whose sole objective is to sow terror? What is the pawn? 
Is all this a side effect of the hysteria that is attributed to us women? Crazy, 
crazy, manipulative, HYSTERIC. And us while looking at our phone in hand down the 
street, and confused because in reality NONE OF THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE HAPPENING.

Dying Light (George Cukor, 1944).
The film takes place oppressively inside a house where Ingrid Bergman, unable to 
react, walks between rooms surrounded by Charles Boyer's undaunted eyebrows, 
while the lamps in the house oscillate in a perfect analogy of psychological 
abuse, stealing her light, haunted by the conviction of her own folly. I shift on 
the sofa, uncomfortable before that relentless certainty, because underneath the 
smoke, the crush dependent on her, that subtle abuse captured in an impeccable 
black and white photograph, lies the crushing and deadly reality: he is VIOLENT. 
And that is the starting point, that and no other. And the focus must be there 
and not on any of the maneuvers with which Gregory, in a systematic and cold way, 
executes on light, freedom and her decision-making capacity.

The media spread the seeds of terror, be careful, BE CAREFUL, and we learn that 
what happens to us is our responsibility for going out alone, for enjoying 
ourselves, for wanting to cross the fence. And it's been like that since I can 
remember. And the Alcasser murders come to mind, and the lesson we learn from so 
much tabloid rubbish: they came out ALONE, because that's how the patriarchy 
wants us to feel, alone in a herd, and it wants us at home, and I remember Laura 
Luelmo, murdered for going out for a run alone.

And the metaphor is perfect. let's look for the fire
According to the latest data provided by the I.N.E. (National Institute of 
Statistics) in September of this year, the number of adults convicted by final 
judgment registered in the National Registry of Convicts during the year 2021 is 
282,210. 80.7% are men. Men convicted of any type of crime.
Let us remember that the Central Registry of Penalties contains information 
related to the final convictions handed down by the courts and tribunals of the 
criminal jurisdiction. The number is already uncomfortable. The graphics that 
accompany the press release, even more. In any case, the percentage difference 
between convicted persons distributed by sex and age groups is overwhelming. 
(Note: we also noticed in the data that 75.2% of criminals were of Spanish 
nationality. But it is up to the people with the little flag to analyze this, of 
course).

As Nina Simone said, "freedom is not being afraid". From now on, we are going to 
focus the fight on the will to be and do what is right. And we are going to learn 
to put the grammatical subject in its proper place: You, man, don't drug me. You, 
man, do not subdue me.

We advance in the document, and we read that men also surpass us in the average 
number of crimes per person convicted. Go, man! And they start early. The same 
report concludes that 81.0% of convicted minors were men and 19.0% women. (And 
almost 80% of Spanish nationality. Once again, please, review your prejudices and 
cleanse yourself of nationalisms, inclusive and exclusive).

But let's focus the matter. The only area in which a percentage increase is 
registered with respect to the data from 2019 (2020 is categorized as an atypical 
year with respect to all types of crime), is that of convicted persons registered 
in the Central Registry of Sexual Offenders, which contains the relative 
information of those convicted in a final sentence for any crime classified as 
sexual in the terms provided in articles 8 and 9 of Royal Decree 95/2009, of 
February 6.

Refrain from reading any further, therefore, all those people who know someone 
who knows someone whose life was ruined with a false complaint. Incels and 
#notallmen included.

97.9% of those convicted are men, and 2.1% women. Let's see in the case of 
minors: 96.8% were male and 3.2% female. The vast majority of convictions, for 
sexual abuse and assault. Please, read the data with the care it deserves. 
Because this is where the focus is.

The smoke is the press headlines echoing fear, systematically insisting on the 
need to protect ourselves, campaigning with terror, with the intangible. Smoke is 
news about what is happening or could have happened, and apparently no one can do 
anything to prevent it. But the reality, the overwhelming truth about it all is 
that MEN COMMIT MORE CRIMES. MEN MAKE UP THE IMMENSE MAJORITY OF SEX OFFENDERS. 
It's them, adults and minors. And this reality has a name: It's called PATRIARCHY.

And it is a system. The oldest system of oppression, in fact. And as I always 
point out, we should fight oppressions in order of appearance, and in this the 
patriarchy wins by a landslide. We were already subjected before capitalism. And 
feudalism. And of all the economic isms.

And this system proves to turn men into violent beings. It is not a genetic 
ability. It is not something inevitable. It is not something that cannot be 
reversed, therefore. The solution, therefore, is educational. A kind of Canadian 
Feminist Strike. A global movement in which each person assumes their share of 
responsibility for what is happening. And that comes from understanding that, in 
a society in which access to porn is around the average age of eight, the 
sexuality that is learned is a binary between oppression and submission, and that 
an adolescent reacts violently when in life In reality, the girl does not respond 
to her whims as she is supposed to, according to the collective audiovisual 
imagination.

The solution, I insist, is educational. I don't have to cover my glass. I don't 
have to protect my drink. Because from now on I will be free, like you. And as 
Nina Simone said, "freedom is not being afraid". From now on, we are going to 
focus the fight on the will to be and do what is right. And we are going to learn 
to put the grammatical subject in its proper place: You, man, don't drug me. You, 
man, do not subdue me.

«I am not a bird and no net catches me. I am a free human being with an 
independent will."

Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)

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