Feminist activist Júlia Salander said this week that all men are potential rapists, Antonio Naranjo called her stupid and she caused a stir on social media, with bitter complaints that “all men” and women are not patient to explain, of course, once again. the existence of a rape culture, which allows sexual assault and violence against women to be trivialized. Before you get offended, man, ask any woman you know if she has ever had her buttocks touched in a crowd, if a boss has harassed her in an office, if she has been afraid to walk alone in the street or if she has given Well, consent to being drunk or wearing a miniskirt. At 14 and a student in a school of nuns, I took the subway every day to go to class, two stops in which I had to change seats and cars or ask for protection from a lady who knew what it was about, one day yes and another too. I definitely lost my innocence when I was 12, when a man asked me, can you help me, and when I approached, he had his penis in his hand, and I did not get it back despite all the men I love and admire but who, more often than not, those who would be desirable look at their navel in front of their companions.
Meanwhile, in the US, masculinity has definitely become a campaign issue, given that the next president could be a woman facing off against a man who is the essence of toxic masculinity, who the whole world has heard women should be grabbed by the pussy and who paid a porn star to silence his sexual relations. Since the world revolves around men and if they are not the center of attention, they are offended or bored (at best) by the figure of the husband, the wonderful, tender, masculine man who can adopt the role of husband. There has been an unexpected emergence of husband pride, some almost “tradhusband husbands” (as opposed to “tradwives”), in the form of luxurious supporting actors like Tim Walz or Doug Emhoff or fake supporting actors like Barack Obama, complaining about the difficulty of talking about Michelle’s genius later. The positive aspect of all this is that if a man claims the private and domestic role, he frees his partner and allows her to occupy a public space of power. Welcome, then, to the husband who is proud of it and who is not only aware of his wife’s private, professional and gynecological problems, but also makes them his own.
