'It’s a form of inhibiting women from continuing to denounce violence. They are saying, 'You cannot be angry, you can’t defend yourself, you have to accept violence quietly.'' Via csmonitor terremotofeminista 🇲🇽
Last month, after a teen accused four police officers of raping her in their patrol car, that anger burst into the open. Outraged feminists in Mexico City doused the city’s security minister in pink sparkles, and days later defaced the capital’s most iconic monument. “Terremoto feminista,” they called another day of demonstrations this month: “Feminist earthquake.”
“They call us vandals. I call it dignified rage,” says Irinea Buendia, whose daughter was a victim of femicide. Her daughters’ death was initially labelled a suicide. After five years of legal battles, her daughter’s husband was arrested, and the country’s Supreme Court ruled that all violent deaths of women must be investigated as possible femicides.
In August women, Ms. Buendia among them again, were so outraged by allegations that police had raped minors that they doused the Mexico City’s security minister in pink sparkles, and days later defaced the capital’s most iconic monument. It became known as the “glitter movement” – and outside feminist circles, it wasn’t widely welcomed. “They call us vandals, I call it dignified rage,” Ms. Buendia says.
Andrea Medina, a lawyer who has worked with many victims of gender violence over the decades, sees anger against the movement as a sign that the status quo is giving way. Society is reacting as it sees women put their foot down, she says. “It’s a form of inhibiting women from continuing to denounce violence. They are saying, ‘You cannot be angry, you can’t defend yourself, you have to accept violence quietly.’ ”She believes, despite how unpopular the protests are, it is a turning point.
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