Dont act like a woman, please! & Language Police!

Andalusia has to be one of the most sexist place I had been. And I am not just talking about the society generally, but about the anarchist movement. Well, I am gonna give you a very remarkable example happened yesterday.

On the thursday evening around 7pm, a group of  activist gathered in fron the Ocean Publishing buildings to protest, everything was much the same, people waving flag and shouting to the company, we have done this thousand times, nothing so speical. But… if you take a look closerly, the people who hold the microphone 9 out of ten are the man, and if you hear careful, the man was shoutting “XXX dont you act like a woman, come down and speak to us”. (Pause!! what did you say?) Acted like a Woman? you mean Woman like me? The comrade standing right next to you? “Exuse me” another comrade came up to him and said to him “dont talk like this, you are being sexist” (Fair enough, finally some man knows better) “Hey dont say WOMAN, you can say he acted like a fag(gay), but not woman, it is disrespect to the woman”

What? Wait, wait…. Stop right there, what did you say?

My english friend paused and went up to talk to the man, yeah, well “what did you say?” and the man started to try to explain my friend what “a gay man” means, he thought she didnt understand that, and that’s why we are questioning that……

The first few days I arrive in this region of Europe, I asked about the queer movement, I am not a queer, but I love queers, some of the most intelligent people I met in many place are the queers, for example as in Japan and London, most of them approve you a dissent/gender equal/anti speicist environement. A lot of time I depending their exist in one place to know if this place is really “liberated”. Or a lot of time I just want to meet them up and ask them what they see, to know the real face of one place, if there’s any gender/sex/structureless-authority exist, they are the person who can tell you a lot of things, and the ones that is willing to discuss about the problems.

And for my informations, there isnt really a queer group exist now in Sevilla, I had not yet met any queers during this 3 months I am here, and our life is packed up with many of sexist jokes. Most of the people I ever asked about gender issues thought there’s isnt such issue exist, or unnecessary to discuss/battle/liberate about it.

The woman are free as how they want to be. Queers can be queers its their personal choice. – But is this really true?

The same repression for sex happens to the “immigrations”. Most of the people claim themselves “internationlist” when they dont have to deal with migrants, they think everybody coming from an ouside world should “respect” the “local”. Which means they are able to do everything as the tradition says, if they have a tradition to eat meat then they should, if they have their own langauge they should speak the language, and if they have a tradition to lock the woman at home they should, if they have tradition to fuck the sheep they can, and you should too. And if they have the tradition to think all the asian are chinese, they can call a korean chinese as they like. This “internationalist” attitude is very strong and becoming a root of the “pride” like “nationalist” to me.

However people get always so “offensive” and “defensive” when you want to talk about this problem with them…

“So, what do you think about this attitutde that toward the discrimitation against the immigrations?” And they try to expalin you this is not a “discrimitaion” it is a “culture”.

Really? A culture that base on the discrimination against  immigrations? A cutlure that block out all other dissent? A culture that has no understanding to a person coming from outside of this culture? A culture that is not open but close and not flexable, and has no understanding to any different possibility of culture difference?

But of couse, this isnt only happen and being a very serious issue in Andalusia, Japan is as much worse, or probably alot more worse than here.

And I started to make names for this kind of atttitude,

“Spanishi Food Naism”- spanish people have so many “rules” when it comes to food, you should only eat something with something, and something is not suppose to cook in some ways… blah blah…. its true facist over on food.

“Culture Leadership” – this is my fucking country, you do everything fucking the way i am used to do, i dont care if you are an arabic or Indonesia, you just fucking do what i am used to, so i am pleased, if you have problem with that, I wouldnt say “why dont you fuck off to your own country” but i sure will use similiar idea to say what i am ganna say….. MY COUNTRY! MY WAY!

“Language Police” – ” soy blah blah….”  “oh fuck off, you cant speak spanish”  “i am trying” (turn away, started to talk to another person) “hey man i am not finishing here” (say to another person “she cant speak spanish, i dont understand what she is saying”) Or they want make you repeat hundred times of one word, when they cant even pronuce another english work right too.

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