One in five boys aged 16 to 21 do not believe that hitting or pushing your partner after an argument or threat, it is a form of gender-based violence. This is a discouraging data provided by the “Macro-study V against gender violence – Zero Tolerance”, which also reflects that 31% do not consider violence either. control the way you dress and 34% don’t believe it either control your mobile or networks social.
The study, prepared by the Mutua Madrileña Foundation and Antena 3 Noticias, based on 6,000 surveys, shows that young Spaniards are more tolerant of violence against women, especially young boys. 15% of men aged 16 to 21 do not consider it to be gender violence forcing the couple to have sex sexual and 25% do not believe that insult or despise are a form of abuse.
There are also high percentages of lack of perception of gender violence in the economic control (47%), the schedule control (40%), prevent seeing family or friends (28%), denigrate the couple before the family or children (29%) or make it difficult to study or work (45%).
The institutions that promoted the study explain in a press release that the trivialization of gender violence among the youngest is the “greatest cause for concern” after the results obtained. Some known results coinciding with the 25N and after this Sunday a 17-year-old boy allegedly murdered his ex-girlfriend15 years old, in Orihuela (Alicante).
The aforementioned study also reflects that the percentages of trivialization of gender-based violence among young girls are significantly higher than those obtained in the general population: more women between 16 and 21 years old do not consider forcing a partner to have sexual relations (8%), pushing or hitting as gender violence (9%) %), threaten (9%), insult or belittle (12%), control the way you dress (13%), prevent you from seeing your family or friends (14%), be belittled in front of your family or friends (14%), children (18%), control your cell phone or networks (23%), control schedules and economic control (27%), or make it difficult to work or study (35%).
Figures which differ from those recorded between the general population: 7% of those questioned do not consider forcing sexual relations to be violence; 8% hit or pushed after an argument; 10%, insult or contempt; 12%, preventing them from seeing their family or friends and devaluing their family or children; 14% control the way they dress; 16% control their cell phone or social networks; 20%, control times; 22%, economic control; and 25%, make it difficult to work or study.
Furthermore, while the 70% of the population considers that violence against women is a very or fairly widespread problem, this figure falls to 23% among the youngest population. Furthermore, 22% of young people do not think that sexist abuse constitutes a serious problem.
The survey reveals that more than half of the population, 57%, believes that easy access to pornography explains this greater tolerance of young people to gender violence and 49% blame social networks and the Internet. 78% are in favor of the implementation of a digital passport for minors to prevent their access to sexual content that distorts reality and 51% of the sample requests that a subject be put in place to raise awareness and prevent in classrooms.
Among those questioned, eight out of ten believe that minors are the most vulnerable to gender-based violence and are not sufficiently protected; 86% believe that this should be addressed more directly in class; 85% consider technologies as a tool to control, coerce and threaten victims and 91% believe that social networks and Internet content have contributed to generating new forms of gender-based violence among young people.
*016 is the telephone number for victims of gender-based violence. It is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The call is free and does not leave a trace on the bill, although it must be removed from the last calls so that it does not appear.
