(day three) "It is difficult express how they feel a man at a gathering of women " tells a fellow" I felt I was in the wrong place at the wrong time. As I walked through the aisle of the auditorium to give a camera to my companion, I felt the weight of eyes on my back, they were never aggressive, but they were there ... all eyes were enough to wish to rush out of there as soon as possible. I immediately came to mind, although not comparable, the idea of \u200b\u200bhow a woman feels when entering a bar full of men, or when walking through the streets and incisive eyes do not rub off them. " The auditorium we speak is full of women and listen to the presentations of the companions, that follow to complete a mosaic of experiences through their different ages, situations and municipalities. Only in the last row some men have occupied positions between banks. A colleague, with the acronym EZLN in balaclavas, the up explaining that only women are allowed to enter the auditorium, that men can hear the words of the sisters from the outside. Without opposition, either by conviction or by not daring to break the rule, the men one by one the seats are removed, leaving only female presence in the room. As time went by, This standard ceased to be so rigid. However, it is an image that reflects well the heart of this gathering of Zapatista women with women in the world. Entering
caracol of La Garrucha a sign announces: "Men can only participate in, making food, sweeping, cleaning latrines and snails, care for the @ s @ s Niñ firewood." This round of tortilla to the deep-rooted gender roles globally, is a challenge that the partners intend to @ s Zapatistas assistants approached. This would have created a space where women are forced to talk and men to listen.
This practice, far from being discriminatory, learning is more of a gender that challenges the everyday sexist, which is a huge effort for both sexes since hitting squarely on what seems most difficult to transform: the roles with which we have grown, the enemy within so many puts obstacles in breaking the dominance of humanity's oldest, patriarchy. Thus, women have fought hard to try to win public spaces and decided to speak in the sight of a packed auditorium, bringing them the lead in the media, in the organization, in moderation or in cultural activities. "After these words read so easy there is a whole river of tears," said a companion. Tears of effort triply exploited peasant women (because women, being poor, being indigenous) have been transformed into a victory, the victory of progress on the path to empowerment. Men have had to be done with the tasks normally invisible, to see the difficulty that carry and to learn from the humility of being quiet, listening and resist the urge to make visible through the floor, which is ultimately cede once, the public space, supporting in silence from the kitchen. In this way the Zapatista women holding hands with men in what they are delayed, and men go hand turn with their partners helping, to the point where we can speak with facts that the horizontal and equity are possible, the best example was the third meeting dedicated to women. Now we have the task of sharing in our hometowns and we discussed what we heard in this land free, ie
Zapatista Land For all this, the meeting was a big step for the Zapatista women, who these days have been found with themselves, with their pain, their tears, their histories and their hopes for change, they can share the links with the rest of the world's women, the oppression of patriarchy. However, the road to be traveling companions Zapatistas together with its partners, towards gender equality is presented as long and expensive, so we can see the same sign which reads the work of men, it also announced that they are kept on 29, 30 and December 31, to return to normal on 1 January ...
Maybe that normally macho self again back to the community or the city, but this meeting did not leave anyone indifferent, a seed of change were planted in default fertile hearts of men and women who were here, whom we also have a long way to go, that of deconstruction, a journey that must be done together but in many cases, as in the case of this meeting of women, with separate steps.
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