Brown Extensions With Blonde Highlights

Gender / Generation

The previous week, between running around to find my topic for my biweekly column, I announced to the editor of the supplement IDEAS'd write about the COB, the work was so steeped in the subject that had all the supplies needed to make a rich analysis the conflict to bear all of the previous week. The day after I reported what I would write, I read the column of Mary Galindo in the same newspaper, though some points to agree with it generally felt that the new minister was prejudging it because you are young and have not been the public arena directly. I knew then that despite having a good theme and various inputs, had generational obligation to write something about Cecilia, the new minister. Reading left column below, which was published in IDEAS, yesterday: 17 April.


(The illustration is Abecor)

On 8 April, several media have given some good minutes / paragraphs of his daily reports to refer to the nervousness of the new minister of Defense, they say, was present at the reception of its new office and in recognition of Armed Forces in the Great Barracks Miraflores. Refer to the test ... test?: The Minister said good afternoon at 10:00 am

Striking the unusual thoroughness time (-in this country-) with which the media have been measured-input- the size of the Minister. Striking, too, the number of seconds / ink invested in branding the minister of "nervous", "improvised" and "Up", draws attention, especially because this is someone whose work was important but low profile his recent appointment. Signals striking because, as far as I remember- long ago as natural a reaction as the nervousness of some authority gossip information was not of national stature. these signals remain as proof of receipt.

From a gender perspective, the possession of the Minister, on the one hand, is viewed favorably by the activists of the Coordinator of Women, who have pointed out that "The appointment of the new Minister is a new sign of political opening to ensure the presence of women in spaces which have been traditionally excluded within the state structure itself " and has been seen with other eyes activist Maria Galindo, who has criticized the authorities for "their careerism and facilonería to accept a fee to climb anywhere and at any cost, a feature characterizing the other hand the women close to the government.." Diametrically different.

From generation approach, it strikes me that with Cecilia, the new minister, will be born in the same decade that brought back democracy to this country, imagine further that, like many men and women, the opportunity to function professionally arrived just when the country-one 2000 - began to assume their right to dream about the possibility of a state model different, a broader democracy, more intense.

From the symbolic approach, it is known that the path traced by the government on gender equality has been favorable, at least at that level. It is therefore not by chance that joint-cabinet and joint lists of through-emerge in the public space, the name of a young woman chosen as to meet the institution's administration, as pointed out by Maria Galindo, is currently main "school of machismo and violence for hundreds of thousands of young people" in our country and the entire planet.

Known is also the integration Women in the Armed Forces beyond democratization, decolonization and despatriarcalizar this institution has served to further strengthen the patriarchal symbolism (which embodies the logic of the soldier) that serves as the core of the practice / authoritarian and patriarchal logic that successfully we have inherited years of military rule and dictatorships.

However, no symbol, huge, can be a good sign at a bad time politically and it goes across the government. This mismatch limits any possibility of action, and eventually confined to the results of management so urgent, and this is Mary Galindo reason. In what is wrong is to point out that "just to see the Minister (know) that none of it runs through your mind, indeed, it seems that nothing happens in reality in his mind." Then, recovering the generational approach, Maria Galindo I can assure that many things run through your mind, because the Minister does not embody (as they wanted to make it look) a claim only gender but also (and especially) a claim generation.

So I goes through the mind-and-sign the new Minister, I and many others, and others were born at a time when the dream of a new state may not have been granted to us as a right but as an obligation: a historical obligation.

So when I see that Cecilia stutters and is nervous, I took over his nervousness, but also for his bravery and courage in presenting a night of 5 April. Finally, then, that which made us dream, is touching the door itself and, as a generation, we can not say no.