Hi fascists of the new millennium, thank you for being sexist. Yes, because if you weren’t insisting so much about women staying home and taking care of the house, they wouldn’t have seriously started doing it. But your mistake lies in believing the women’s home is the perimeter that you call private property but that you consider the property of the stereotypical man and that only the enslaved woman should take care of.
Rebel women
Well, the house of women and of us all is in fact our planet, the Earth, and women have begun to take care of it. Those women that you wanted still and submissive are now at the forefront, protesting loudly the disasters perpetrated by the machine-capital against our home and the wellbeing of us all.
On the one hand, you barricaded in the palaces of power, arguing with infinite inanity about women considered as mere incubators, as happened recently in Verona at the World Congress Of Families, funded partly by the Russian oligarchy but partly also by public tax funds paid by all of us.
On the other hand, however, extraordinary women are coming forward, in a double struggle, to smash gender stereotypes that pretend to prevent them from being enterprising or endowed with a great aptitude for command, but also a struggle against that extractivist mentality that sees our planet just as an enormous resource to extract and exploit and not as a gift that needs to be protected.
Activists and politicians
Then we see our movements led by women and girls like Greta Thunberg, who mobilised young people like no one before simply by striking.
Or like Nemonte Nenquimo and the other indigenous women who are denouncing and protesting throughout South America against the wicked choices of the governments of Ecuador and of the new Brazil led by Jair Bolsonaro, determined to steal the Amazon from its indigenous nature reserves to sell it to the corporations, and who has always sided against the social advancement of women, heavily insulting political adversaries precisely because they were female.
Leading women like Zuzana Čaputová, the first female president of her country. Progressive and environmentalist, she is the founder of the pro-European party Progresívne Slovensko (Progressive Slovakia), which with its victory in the 2019 elections broke the wall of the Visegrád Group (which includes, in addition to Slovakia, also the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland), stopping its dangerous drift towards the alt-right.
Finally, our movements are led by us young people fighting to reject and dismantle all those stereotypes that keep us anchored to a mephitic and by now obsolete concept of genders, but at the same time in revolt so that social and environmental wellbeing would finally be put before the economic gains of the few. The future belongs to us all, “dear” fascists, because the Liberation from nazi-fascism does not belong to the past but it continues
Giovanni Gottardo
©2019 Il Grande Colibrì
foto: elaborazione da Anders Hellberg (CC BY-SA 4.0) / da Pedro Sandrini (CC0)
