WITHOUT FINISHING
The Spanish jurist specialized in constitutional law Octavio Salazar gave an interview to La Voz on the occasion of his visit to Lanzarote for the presentation of his book Yo, nosotros, a masculinity diary to be disarmed at A Casa Museo José Saramago de Tías.
"We are in the prolegomena of what should be a true transformation of masculinity," says the jurist. In this sense, he emphasizes that although feminism has been "removing many foundations of patriarchal societies," there is still "a huge resistance to that transformation of men."
Salazar shows that, despite social progress, in recent years "we are witnessing very reactive processes." Faced with the advances of feminism, he explains that a part of men have opted for the "return to traditional masculinity," while only some, "in a very minority way," have begun a process of change.
For the Spanish jurist, the cases of sexual violence that have splashed left-wing leaders such as Iñigo Errejón or Carlos Monedero have had "a negative impact," since "at a certain moment they represented a leadership of another way of understanding politics, of supporting the causes of feminism and of launching a series of messages that were committed to feminism." However, he emphasizes that these cases have served to see "that this issue of machismo is an absolutely transversal issue. It is not a question of ideology or of the right, or of the left, or even generational," he continues.
on the one hand we have advanced a little, but at the same time we are in a very delicate moment of reaction against feminism
