En este momento, este "nuestro" se refiere a la mitad de la humanidad de la cual yo soy parte. Decido compartirlo por la necesidad de que se conozca la voz completa de la humanidad. Hay hombres y mujeres. Hay blancos, negros, amarillos, rojo y variaciones de estos tonos. Hay jóvenes, adultos y ancianos. Hay escalas sociales variadas de acuerdo a los ingresos. Hay grupos culturales tan variados como naciones y subgrupos culturales dentro de ellas. La humanidad expresa gran variación. Decido expresar la variación desde la perpectiva del ser mujer. La pregunta que comparto es de una entrevista Gloria Steinem por Marianne Schnall en el año 1995.
"MS: What do you think are the biggest challenges that women face today?
GS: Whatever each individual woman is facing; only she knows her biggest challenge. However, if we add up the problems that affect the biggest numbers of women, then issues having to do with physical safety and reproduction are still the biggest. Female bodies are still the battleground, whether that means restricting freedom, birth control and safe abortion in order to turn them into factories, or abandoning female infants because females are less valuable for everything other than reproduction. If you add up all the forms of gynocide, from female infanticide and genital mutilation to so-called honor crimes, sex trafficking, and domestic abuse, everything, we lose about 6 million humans every year just because they were born female. That’s a holocaust every year. It makes sense that reproductive freedom is still the biggest issue – because the reason females got in this jam in the first place was because the patriarchal state or religion or family wanted to control reproduction -- to decide how many workers, how many children the nation needs, and who owned them in systems of legitimacy -- or even outright slavery. The International Labor Organization says there are about 12 million people living in literal slavery around the world, and 80 percent of them are women and girls. "
Es triste y sorprendente observar que no ha habido mucho cambio desde entonces.
Sensei Myriam
