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Hey guys,
I grew up all around Latin America. Any way, when I was growing up there was ZERO feminism talk in the newspaper, in the television, in the movies, in schools..etc. The first time I heard about the whole "feminist" when I was a teenager and saw a bunch of videos from US political debate. Divorces were rare and also "beating up" women was stigmatize due to the Catholic influence. The whole LGBT stuff was very underground and people generally didn't talk about it.
Any way, after about a couple of years ago I left. And nowadays each time I open a newspaper be it from Panama, Peru, Colombia or Brazil the news are always talking about femicides, about violence against women. There seems to be a constant barrage to drill the point that women get killed everyday. There's a deliberate attempt to highlight women's accomplishment as well over men's. The big newspapers try to normalize it and say that, "this are our values."
However, last time I checked this are supposed to be Catholic countries and nowhere there does it say the following:That gender is a social construct, that men and women need to have an adversarial relation, that divorce is ok, that living a prommiscous lifestyle should be accepted, that a lot of music like reggeton should be the standard, that the LGBT lifestyle should be celebrated...etc.
Having lived before any of this stuff became popular this seem like a "subversion of values." I don't have a strong stance issue. But what's scary is how the values has been inverted and now to say the opposite is to become a misogynist, homophobe, bigot...among others insults.
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