Knowing who the wolves are and what she wants from her because she’s a woman, 16-year-old “good girl” Catalina, like Little Red Riding Hood, leaves a friend’s house dejected and hitchhikes in spite of herself. so that his family wouldn’t scold him for arriving late. His puberty will have changed within four hours of its occurrence. ‘Physical education’ (Seix Barral), a novel set in the 90s Rosario Villajos from Cordoba (1978) won Short Library Award.
“At first she feels guilty for what happened, but then she realizes there is no need and all she can think about is complaining about the abuse to her friend’s father. She wants her to believe in herself and her friend knowing that she didn’t do it. Many women don’t report because they know they will be victimized again. ‘I believe you’ Revealing that she is a very different young woman from Catalina, the author meant a turning point against La Manada de Pamplona. I loved the sense of danger, experimentation, doing ‘bad deeds’. I hitchhiked and experienced weird situations but luckily nothing happened to me. Once a fool put me in the doorway and I got into a slap fight with him. My weapon today has been to write this novel,” warns Villajos.
We women are trained not to show our anger at violence against us.
“It goes back centuries when women thought it was our fault when we were attacked. They know that if you say anything, they’ll say it’s your fault. Statistics say your grandfather is more likely to be raped by your uncle, a father, a priest, or a neighbor than a stranger. We were brought up to think that it was you who turned you on when you went out at night, showing your body. Look what happened to that student? The students residing in Madrid didn’t care. I went out with torches to protest!” your homes.”
“The face of a porn actress”
Villajos also gets angry when he remembers that while studying in Seville, a Fine Arts professor told him “she has the face of a porn actress” while voting in front of the entire class. Luckily, he adds, “there are a lot of men at 8M shows today who are also aware that patriarchy is shit to them.” However, he regrets that things have not changed that much and continue to prevail. culture rape Alcàsser’s crimes were committed in 1992, there are ‘herd’ cases today. “Nerea Barjola in “The sexist microphysics of power”say what case Alcàsser would be the perfect moment to respond, as with the Pamplona Pack: going out into the street to say ‘no’. But the way the media covered the news of these girls was a step back. And take a look at how the nightclub eruption is handled today: It’s causing panic among women, while it’s men who should be afraid of us. I would love for them to experience our fear. They taught us not to express our anger in the face of violence against us,” he emphasizes.
Older women continue to maintain that we value physique above all else, something that burdens us with complexes.
Many women react by trying does not arouse male desire. “Catalina is trying to make herself look ugly by shaving her head, she doesn’t look as feminine as possible, and it’s more comfortable to dress like a man. It’s her way of protecting herself so her friend’s dad won’t stare at her.”
The girdle is an emotional and figurative corset of oppression on the female body.
In the novel, he also talks about how it happened. old women “continue to maintain The fact that we care more about physics than anything else is something that accuses us of complexes. I don’t even know how to take it off myself: going out in a certain way, wondering if you have a lot of hair on your legs… It is very difficult to remove the corset, the belt. We should all say ‘enough’. Like in 8M. It would take fighting for 8M to happen every day”.
A tan belt covering the cover of ‘Physical Education’. “She represents Catalina the way her mother dressed her. pressure on the female body. It is an emotional and figurative corset. According to her mother, when she says “armored” it’s an uncomfortable garment that makes her more “bulky” because it’s a very difficult garment to take off. She thinks if the boys want to touch her, they’re going to have a hard time like that.”