Beyond disrupting Hollywood, what impact has MeToo had on our country? Actress Leticia Dolera He was one of the first to react to the global wave of anger triggered by MeToo. Days after the explanations Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey About Harvey Weinstein in The New York Times and Ronan Farrow In ‘The New Yorker’, the Catalan actress admitted without blinking an eye that when she was 18, a television director touched her chest, and ten years later she was in pain without touching it.
As you can see, Dolera’s is not an isolated case. in Catalonia, Graduates of the Aula de Teatre de Lleida and the Institut del Teatre In recent years, they have condemned decades of harassment by teachers. In both cases, justice did not come to prosecute any of the teachers. Teacher Antonio Gómez from Lleida fled to Brazil with the 60,000 euros the city council had paid him to settle the case. But things got mixed up in the industry: After detecting more than 150 cases of abuse or harassment, Catalan Cinema Academy Last May, he established a leading psychological and legal counseling department for victims. Less than 10% of 150 cases became complaints. Silence, fear and little trust in justice continue to weigh on in a small world where everyone knows each other. It was La Manada’s case that ignited the fuse in Spain and caused a real tsunami of anger and brotherhood. Tens of thousands of Hispanic women took to the streets to show their feelings in 2018, the historic year of feminist demonstrations that flooded squares across the country on 8 March. anger and resentment Before the reaction of justice, which described the gang rape in Pamplona as “an atmosphere of festivity and joy”. Five years later, consent was incorporated into a new law, ‘just yes yes’, which has just entered into force. A third of the 5,000 judges in Spain completed the gender perspective course, which began shortly thereafter in 2019. In these five years, the vocabulary we use has also changed. Like most of the society, it has internalized the concepts. consent, fraternity, privilege, or toxic masculinity, terms that quickly enter conversation. this mind click, Realizing that patriarchy is not the caricature of a stinking man smoking a cigar and touching his secretary’s ass, but something much more structured, a subtle, invisible and effective system through which we all breathe, is a system trained and perfected within all of us. over the centuries, still very irregular. The gap is twofold: between generations and between men and women. Even those who self-identify as pro-feminists are reluctant to promote real changes in a system designed to their advantage. But change is tangible and unstoppable. When they went viral last week HeChauvinist chants from the Elías Ahuja residence hall, few suspected that they were part of the so-called party. “rape culture”It’s a concept that was little used before MeToo and is now fully assimilated.
The scale and pace of events in the United States have been different. The move sparked a wave of sexual harassment and harassment complaints that illuminate decades of impunity and silence. Many victims have spoken and are heard for the first time. Justice isn’t as fast as Twitter, but five years have seen resignations, layoffs, lawsuits, lawsuits, out-of-court settlements, and changes in companies’ corporate culture. As strong as the numbers John Lasseter, the charismatic founder of Pixar or the founder of Fox News, Roger Ailes, not to mention the chilling cases. Bill Cosby, Jeffrey Epstein or Larry Nassar, serial rapists Having enjoyed tremendous social prestige for decades and left behind hundreds of victims, MeToo was the fuel the then-starter community needed in 2017. fourth wave feminism But we already know what happens to the waves: they come and go, and what’s more, in these waves hyper accelerated times If the second wave of network turbo-capitalism in the ’60s and ’70s had the ‘reaction’ of Reagan and Thatcher a decade later, in the ultra-conservative ’80s, the reaction to MeToo is already here, on the fifth anniversary of the movement, very punctual. Sexist counterattacks from various aspects: what is legal (there are traumatic cancellation Banning abortion in the most conservative half of the United States, Roe vs. Wade) and, above all, the media, in which social networks act as speakers of the most stubborn machismo.
say Amber Heard exposed to unprecedented digital teasing during the court case last May where she came face-to-face with her ex-husband, Johny Depp. It doesn’t matter if the London High Court upheld the sentence in 2021 that gave the justification for ‘The Sun’ describing the actor as an abuser, because the evidence is there. Depp ‘an effective abuser’. Or that Heard’s defeat (he was guilty of violating Depp’s honor in an article he wrote about his ill-treatment in The Washington Post) has more to do with how the American judicial system deals with defamation. a humiliating festival for the actress, A feast of the most pervasive misogyny fueled by right-wing digitals, thin forums, and bots paid for by Depp’s lawyers. Seeing thousands of ‘tiktokers’ dancing and ‘playing’ to the sound of Heard’s rape story in the background, mocking their testimony, and humiliating memes and videos reaching 4.2 billion views, hundreds of fake accounts are chilling. Yes manosphere I wanted to send a message about how well-organized and reluctant it is to have the voice of a abused woman heard – a gesture as simple as listening, revolutionary and feared by some, not to be forgotten, MeToo at its core – she got it. It was clear that dark times were coming. enemies from day one. Its critics have also created their own lexical universe of adjectives and “concepts” such as “feminazi”.wokism” and “cancel culture”. The movement was accused of almost everything: promoting a new puritanism, blowing up the presumption of innocence, and promote witch hunts In Spain, no strong man has ceased to be so because one or more women condemned inappropriate behavior. An investigation by the Associated Press agency revealed that Placido Domingo sexually abused 27 women and abused his power for decades. The tenor, who resigned as general manager of the Los Angeles Opera after the truth came to light, admitted that he was “really sorry for the damage done,” in a statement saying “the rules and values by which we measure ourselves.” today and should measure us, they are very different from what they were in the past. His return to the Spanish stage last year was a secret tribute: the Starlite festival in Marbella held a concert in his honor and at the National Auditorium in Madrid. The audience gave him a five-minute standing ovation.