The fight for women's rights
The fight for the women's cause in particular is one of the many challenges to be met in a world where masochistic and discriminatory cultural considerations constitute a significant obstacle in the defence and protection of the rights of a gender determined to take this fight as far as possible. Indeed, it is by being determined in spite of everything that it is possible to obtain equality or reasonable autonomy, which requires first of all, a banishment of all stereotypes that reduce the female gender to an object of permanent pleasure, predestined to suffer all forms of humiliation or bodily abuse, to the point of taking pleasure in being beaten and humiliated publicly or not, because it is what women are called to.
Claiming the same rights as men is an absolute right or a right that has no restrictions. Everyone has the right to be autonomous or to make every effort to take advantage of a set of rights that allow them to live decently, without envying the privileges of others, even if in the context of a certified couple life, autonomy takes on a whole different meaning. The notion of complementarity, which is necessary in the exercise of any essential activity in the development process of a country, intervenes so that autonomy be the result of complementarity in a framework in which no one claims to be superior, to the point of believing that the other is predestined to suffer, or remain on a lower scale.
Equality, like autonomy, in a certified context where well lit considerations reign, is always founded on respect and complementarity. It is the misunderstanding of this logic of things that partly justifies the sickening reality of femicides. However, no one has the right to harm the moral, physical, and psychological integrity of another. Whatever the reasons, we are facing a person who has the same rights as us, and who can take advantage of her rights in all circumstances of life. Just as men have the right to file complaints against women, women also have the same right. Without dwelling on court decisions which may be contestable in a State governed by the rule of law, we continue by saying that, in the name of a universal law that is intended to be implemented and bear fruit everywhere, no one has the right to hit someone else, to the point of taking his life.
Femicides are the consequence of a machismo imbued with masochistic tendencies to be deplored and condemned, in a set of societies where the sickening application of the thesis of the supposed superiority of the masculine gender over the feminine is a constant reality. The term femicide in itself is already a victory insofar as it relates to sexism which is the discriminatory attitude based on the sex of a person. “The term was coined by the American women’s movement in 1960 combining the word ‘sex’, to refer to the biological sex, with the ending ‘ism’, from another common form of discrimination: racism”[5]
The concept of femicide allows us to no longer limit ourselves to the use of the expression crime of passion which is “an offense committed under intense emotional states like rage, jealousy, or despair, which severely impair the perpetrator’s ability to think rationally.”[6] The concept of femicide allows us to touch more concretely on the malaise of a set of women who are victims of "sexist and sexual violence"[7]
Respect for the dignity of humankind will always require respect for the feminine gender to have its full meaning. When we limit ourselves solely to the level of masochistic considerations put into practice by macho men or male individuals indoctrinated by the ideology of the supremacy of the masculine gender over the feminine in all areas, the results will always be the same. There will always be widowhood rites to be deplored and condemned, male individuals who gather to sexually and successively abuse women or girls, men sodomized and killed by others determined to prove to them that they, on the other hand, are real men, women and girls banned from education and work because they are women, and finally men who will never accept living with women who are academically, socially, and economically superior to them.
This list, which is not exhaustive, shows how long the road still is. There is still work to be done in the protection and defence of men's rights, and in particular the search for reasoned equality, which is not just a propaganda slogan, but a social problem that requires constant efforts. Today, more than ever before, women are in almost all positions of responsibility in the world. Although what is effective elsewhere is not the case everywhere, it is still proof that women can do anything.
The gold of a teaching unit in Ngaoundéré university in Cameroon, a research professor said to her male students to stop cheating or copying the work of their female classmates during exams, because she would have made the observation by comparison to a previous time which perhaps corresponds to the time when she was a pupil or student, that even in the gold of mathematics tests, many men copy women's work. But since this does not mean that women are stronger in mathematics or in scientific disciplines than men, nor that women are better than men in literary subjects, we must simply see in this example the fact that everyone has their place in all fields, instead of believing that it is men who must always be the first everywhere. Adopting this kind of reductionist considerations, predisposes one to not accept being in a context where a woman occupies the first rank. Everyone is important. What matters is not who is in a superior position, but whether the person has the required skills. In any case, there is nothing wrong with a woman being better. To think otherwise, is to remain in the logic of a superior gender intended to dominate those that some qualify as the "weaker sex", based on discriminatory considerations that favour the use of sexist vocabulary that Mohandas Karamchand Ganghi (October 1869 - January 1948) already considered to be defamatory, or more precisely a qualifier that undermines the honour or the consideration of a person. And we know what reasoning based on degrading and fallacious considerations has produced in the past: the Nazis wanted to conquer the world, and they lost the war because their considerations were limited by a disastrous overestimation, which doomed their project to failure.
As long as Men always chooses to harm his physical, moral and psychological integrity, we will always end up with a series of situations where human freedoms are trampled by a group of individuals whose actions demonstrate a lack of consideration for their fellow human beings. The feminine cause is also a masculine cause. For there to be change, men will always have to be involved because they hold the majority of power, in a set of contexts where all forms of discrimination cannot be truly fought without a complementarity which implies that the fight of women is supported by men who are aware, depending on the contexts, that they cannot evolve without women, who constitute the other part of a humanity without which it is impossible to move forward properly because the complementarity which is essential at all levels, requires giving more consideration to a gender determined to take the fight as far as possible, to no longer leave the appearance of a morbid resignation at the mercy of a patriarchy or a type of "social organization in which men monopolize power and dictate the rules" [8].
If we must recognize that in a society as in a family unit everyone has a role to play which is part of a complementarity which contributes to the good of the whole, the two heads of the family must respect a certain number of sincere cultural requirements and values, which promote harmony in societies called upon to invest much more in the culture of "democratic values of tolerance, solidarity, compromise, equality, fairness and respect"[9] among others, in order to further enable the fight for the feminine cause to advance gently, surely and without fear, towards a set of satisfactions which do not only bring joy to women, but also to men.
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