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"What is feminism?"

"It's a response against the hatred that masculine society, past and present, feels towards women.

It's an individual and group awareness.

It's the search for fraternity between women.

It's to know oneself, without competing against the male.

It's to denounce segregation.

It's the understanding that most of feminine disgraces are not ordained by God nor Nature, but by men for their comfort.

It's pretending to reign not over men, but over our own bodies and destiny.

It's to go against the images that society categorizes ourselves: whores or goddesses, martyrs or witches.

It's understanding that we live betrayed and deformed by a false education.

it's understanding that all revolutions that brought some partial progress didn't take into account half of humanity's specific issues.

It's looking for the freedom without thinking ad hominem, or to be pointed at by when, how and how much.

It's, once we're integrated into society, radically changing it, a society based in violence, exploitation, and repression.

It's pointing at and combatting misogyny, because what starts as a simple word, ends up in a witch hunt or concentration camps.

It's understanding that the exceptional women only prove the rule.

It's rejecting millenary labels.

It's comprehending that charity starts inside the home, but the home is the world.

It's to realize that exceptions don't count much because all women have the same problems."

- María Elena Walsh.

Translated by me.