Browniesss

Estar a cargo de una casa, de los hijos e hijas es un trabajo grave jarabe! Mi mamá viajó por 4 días a otra ciudad y yo me quedé a cargo de la casa, fueron los 4 días más largos de mi vida... Ser ama de casa es un trabajo exhaustivo y de nunca acabar, realmente entiendo a las amas de casa y amos de casa; pero creo que las personas que estan a cargo de la casa tienen que tener ayuda de sus miembros, ya sean bebés, niños, niñas, jóvenes, adultos, todos y todas deben ayudar porque viven en la misma casa! Un hombre también puede ser amo de casa. Es tiempo de quitar esa idea mala de atribuir roles específicos solo por el género, no todas las mujeres son amas de casa; el trabajo de casa es para  todos los miembros de la familia, es horrible ver a tu madre lavar o limpiar el piso mientras tu estás hueveando viendo tele o en la computadora. 

Solidaridad y cooperación para un mundo no sexista y equitativo. 

Translation

Let's help in the house.

Bianka

Las modelos son tontas

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Hoy leí un post de un blog feminista y tal fue mi impresión al ver un poco de odio en esas palabras, la blogger la criticaba y tildaba de tonta, sub normal y retrasada a una modelo conocida  por una declaración que hizo con respecto al feminismo y a su desacuerdo con esta forma de vida.  Es cierto, la mayoría de las personas mantienen una idea errada sobre la esencia del feminismo, automáticamente lo asocian con el machismo y eso no es verdad; el feminismo promueve la equidad de género, libre de prejuicios atribuidos a hombres y a mujeres; pero no nos desviemos del tema, que habrá otro post o entrada que será exclusivamente sobre la definición del feminismo y sus implicaciones. Volviendo al tema sobre la blogger y su oposición ante las modelos y sus pensamientos, no estoy de acuerdo con juzgar e insultar a otras mujeres sobre su mala información del feminismo, como Bell Hooks dijo, que el feminismo sería fuerte y no mal entendido si la hermandad estuviera unida y tiene mucha razón, no podemos mostrar odio contra otras mujeres, porque en ese mismo instante lo feminista desaparecería. A mi no me gusta el prototipo de modelos que están las pasarelas y no creo que ellas sean un ejemplo a seguir, porque son humanas como yo y tienen diferentes problemas, mucha presión pero si les gusta esa forma de vida, no soy quien para juzgarlas aunque no estoy de acuerdo con el arquetipo de mujer que promueven, muy huesuda, serias, un tanto extraterrestres y siempren deslumbrantes a toda hora, ¡Por favor! Nadie puede estar con el maquillaje y con tacos todo el día, hay días de mierda o de flojera que no te provocan ni cambiarte de ropa. Yo estoy a favor de la realidad, esa realidad que no se muestra en la tele o en los anuncios que veo en la calle o el internet, la realidad se vive y no se ve, se siente, puedes palparla, algo que un televisor no puede hacer, así que dejémonos de huevadas al juzgar a alguien, peleemos contra el sistema y no contra otras personas.

Hay que quitar muchas vendas a diferentes ojos y no podemos hacerlo con odio sino con tolerancia y respeto.


Translation

I read a post on a feminist blog, I didn't like it because it was full of insults to a model that was wrong to the feminism meaning; I believe in  feminism that promotes respect and sisterhood, as Bell Hooks said: " If the sisterhood is not united, feminism won't be powerful" 

Bianka

It has to see the light

This is a special post because I'm going to show you an essay that I wrote for my master degree application, which unfortunately I've been rejected, so here you have. This essay talks about feminism in Bolivia and why it's not growing. It's my point of view about this situation. And I decided to show my writings in order to start the revolution that I've waited for so long .

Hope you read it.

Bianka

FEMINISM IN BOLIVIA

Bianka B. S.

Is there feminism in Bolivia? Bolivia is a diverse, multicultural country; we’re living in a revolution process that implies a return to Bolivian authentic roots, a decolonization process, however, the feminism is not accepted. As many countries, feminism has been misunderstood, people conceive it as a radical ideology of angry lesbian women who want to be like men (Hooks, 2000) and this country is not the exception. 

Sexism is the main factor of feminism misunderstanding.  For this purpose, it’s imperative to know the meaning of this problem. Sexism is a way of repression to human beings, this violence works through prejudices and segregations against men and women based on gender roles. By the same token, sexism has clung from education, religion and mass media. At school they teach us how to think in male and in female, the Bolivian education trains students with determined roles, teaching boys to make a chair and girls, to embroider a tablecloth. It’s interesting how school texts portray women, as weak, who have to suffer because of their gender, they show mothers like a sacrificed soul who had to kill all of their dreams.  Religions all over the world have always had a similar vision of women and the roles that they have to play; for example, some Christians use the bible to repress women indicating that the bible says that a woman has to be a virgin who must get married to have sex, a mother who has to give birth many children, a wife who has to be subjected to her husband, a hearer, not a speaker less a preacher. As well as education and religion are part of sexism, mass media plays a crucial role on its development, for instance, the television’s commercials, shows even the news objectify women, it’s regrettable how those commercials associate them with meat or leather. Mass media imposes the idea of beauty, exhibit voluptuousness in skinny bodies, a fantasy of perfection that any of us will see in real life.  Furthermore, mass media, through the commercials, expose women as a mother who need in “mother’s day” a new dish washer or a vacuum or maybe a new iron to iron her husband’s and children’s clothes. Unfortunately sexism is rooted in our everyday life and most of the people visualize it as a sacred law that anyone can break.

Adela Zamudio was a Bolivian writer of the XIX century, who fought for the women rights in Bolivia, she wrote a poem called “Nacer Hombre” (Born man), in which she talked about the segregation that Bolivian women were living in that time, she was so sublime in her revolution that everybody could understand that women are just as intelligent as men, that women can be writers and they can think by themselves, however, her writings did not impact to Bolivian people. In the late of XX century a movement called “Mujeres creando” (Women creating) started to redefine feminism through riots, graffiti and fanzines, their leader Maria Galindo have been a controversial figure in Bolivia, she is used to make unusual protests that call the attention for few people, but not to the whole Bolivians. Unfortunately she shows herself as the typical feminist cliché. Mujeres Creando had made a great effort to the Bolivian feminist literature though feminism is still considered as an angry radical ideology of crazy women.

It’s interesting how Bolivian people answer to you when you ask what feminism is, they instantly relate it with “Mujeres Creando”, thinking that feminism is for selfish women who try to be like men, who are vulgar, who doesn’t have manners, who dress sloppily with lack of hygiene. As a result, there is a huge mistake about the real meaning of feminism. Bolivian women are in status quo, indeed some of them think are feminists just because they think they are better than men, some of them think feminism is the same as machismo by arguing that men and female are equal. The Andean world view proclaims the nature duality, men and women together for the Pachamama (Mother Nature) wellness, this world view think that feminism is colonialism, that is the case of Andean people, who tout their love and protection to their women, but even Andean women suffer the violence and discrimination. 

Bolivian women suffer, who are the responsible? Women, men, sexism and culture.  As well as some men believe in machismo, women themselves  can be the most fervent male chauvinists, they protect men from women, they think women have to obey everything  that men orders;  there is a saying in the Bolivian culture: “A woman should not make a man cry because men never cry” They support their husbands’ violence against other women, at this point  they are decoupling of their gender, they defend this kind of protection by arguing that men are defenseless and they can be manipulated by “some mean women”, by the same token,  they consider them as enemies. As a result, most of Bolivian men are chauvinists, they want a woman who has to be a lady, a virgin to make his wife, a young girl that can be easy to manipulate, a homey woman who can cook for him, raise his children and organize everything in the house, they want a woman who speak less and smile more, they want to think for them and be the only head of the family, on the other hand there are men that fight for women rights and gender equity but there are only few of them. Subsequently, sexism rules in Bolivian women suffering, even in the revolution field think that women are weaker than men, that a woman has to be a mother and she’s the only one who can make the family organized. Sexism still lives in Bolivian people minds and because our lack of criticism we keep following all the predetermined canons of how men and women have to be, for this reason, women and men struggle with an unnecessary pressure just because absurd impositions of the past. Thereby, we reach to the most difficult factor of Bolivian women suffering which is Bolivian culture, no matter how hard you try to change something in a culture sometimes you fail in your purpose, Bolivia is multicultural, and it’s hard to make people understand that women is just as equal as men, they can do hard work, they can be clever in mathematics , they can take care of themselves, even they can be stronger than men, but that’s not the case, the Bolivian woman is wonderful, intense and put all of her passion in everything that she does. It’s an arduous work to make people understand that a woman has the right to decide to get married or not, to have a family or not. Some people think that if a woman is not a mother or a wife is not a woman and that’s a wrong idea, a woman can decide which be or not be.

At the end of this written, all I can say is that there is feminism in Bolivia, but it’s a new born who needs to be feed and caring. Bolivian people have to work very hard to take sexism away, because it’s the most principal repressor of the human being, it’s amazing how it has rooted to people’s mind, how many lies about our nature had become part of our history.  In most of the times you can’t fight against culture but if you see that women suffer because of traditions it’s important to make a change. And that change is through education, literature, internet, radio and in everyday life. It’s time to make a revolution and not a show, it’s time to make chaos in people’s mind, it’s time to make a unique and sublime revolution, I know the journey would be full of obstacles but we have to try and try and fight for a better place where women and men can be free just as they are.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

HOOKS, Bell

      2000

                            Feminism is for everybody: Passionate Politics, United States of America, South

                             End Press

The resistance has to be united

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Three months ago, I read a book by a wonderful writer called Bell Hooks, she is an afro american woman who is a feminist too; this book is amazing it helped me to understand what feminism is, indeed it helped me to clarify my doubts about this movement. In the beginning, I used to think that feminists were a bunch of lesbian who hated men.... I was completely wrong. Feminism it's not an aberration against humanity and it's not the same as machismo, this movement fights for gender equity, fights against sexism which is the main factor of violence against women, even sexism impairs men. In my culture it's not good to see men cry, because most of the people say that "Men are stronger than women and men don't have cry" And I ask myself Why a man has to be strong and a woman weak? Even in the resistance you can bread sexism, because they say that women's nature is to be delicate...

There are many things why feminism is good for society that I won't have one post enough to write about; but there will be more interesting posts like this one.

As a conclusion, you may wonder why the title, well, one of the reasons why feminism is misunderstood is because sisterhood is not united, women see other women as their enemies and this situation impair the fight for women rights. Have you ever wondered why there are femicides? One of the main reasons is because the sisterhood is not powerfull, women are divided and it's time to change this situation.

Bianka

I refuse to suffer

I'm a woman and my destiny is not to suffer. All of this week I 've been watching the news and I really felt hurt because all I watched was women murders and rapes, in less than a week there were 3 women dead in my city. By the same token, I was listenning a ladies chat, they were talking about the women disgrace, they said that our destiny is to suffer, since the beginning of our lives we cry and we'll keep crying at the end of our days...

Why a woman have to be weak? I just don't understand  why people portray women like a soul in pain who had to sacrifice all their dreams for having children...  I don't understan why are happening these murders, why are there men who rape and kill women?

I'm very mad with people who think women are weaker than men, that we are delicate persons, but  men are delicate too!

We have to stop with the wrong idea that we need someone who protects us because it's not like that, women are as strong as men. We have to stop denying that women are ok, because we're not, we keep living in this sexist society that represses both women and men, that determines who is pretty and who's not. We're still living a repression even inside us and we have to show that we're strong and we could live free without consumerism and without sexism.

I'm a woman who doesn't need someone in her life just because the society says that I will be alone. I'm strong and I won't let anyone to hurt me because he or she thinks I'm weak. I'm woman who believes in feminism that is not a ideology for selfish women is a way of life that fights for gender equity. Maybe someday, I'll have a relationship with a man who believies in feminism and fight for freedom, and I'm sure I'll find him. Feminism is not a ideology that hates men.

Women have to united and start to think critically. Please, stop consuming, it's time to fight for freedom that make us creatives to make this a better place.

Bianka

The hummingbird's beliefs

Source: 26.media.tumblr.com via Joan on Pinterest

The first thing I want to write on this post is that I truly have faith in God, now a days, that belief is dying as a result of fake people who traffic with God's sacred things turning them in horrible lies. For me, it's hard to be a person who believe in God, anarchy and feminism, because non of those labeled people can understand the union of these verbs that are adjetives and nouns too.

In older posts I wrote about how lonely I was in my beliefs and I still feel that. I'm trying to fight for my freedom, I write phrases, paragraph to make people understand that anarchy it's a way of life and not a punk philosophy that wants to disturb and destroy people's life. Anarchy wants to disturb people's repressed minds; have you ever thought you're living a lie and all the problems you have is because your lack of freedom? You're not free if you buy things you don't need, if you get drunk just because your friends do, you're not free if you can't say something that some people would not accept, if you have a sick dependency on your cell phones, i pad, i pods.... You don't need those things to be cool.

Most of the time, human beings create false needs in this global society, most of the people feel empty and they don't know why. I will write more posts about anarchism because it's an amazing ideology ( I'm not trying to persuade people to belive in anarchy, people are free of believe in everything), you'll see how  really is the anarchy world. 

This is my place where I can write freely about how I see life.

Bianka