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March 9 was a historic day. A day without women. No women on the streets, on public transportation, at work, on social media or in schools.
“Si mañana me toca, quiero ser la ultima”
Que fuerte y que real.
Ni una menos
Ok, here’s another important rant. Just take 1 minute of your life to read.
I live in Argentina and i’m a 17 year old girl.
Nowadays there’s the highest rate of women murdered, raped and abused we’ve ever seen. Each month i see in the news a new case of a girl, most of them teenagers, that are missing; only to discover in the following week that her body was found with signs of rape, abuse and was dumped in the river, side of the road or the place were the trash goes to at the end of the day. If they’re even found at all. And that are the cases which go public and viral. There hundreds more of women and girls that are being raped, phisically abused, mistreated, insulted, murdered, treated as objects, and more, that we don’t even know of. It may be for human trafficking, from part of boyfriend, parents, people in the streets, a whole lot of reasons. But its fucking wrong and it has to stop now.
The people who do it are not even in prison. Our justice department is doing absolutely nothing, and they even make up excuses. And we are sick of it. It isn’t fucking right that a woman dies every 30 hours.
Today, 3rd of June, each town of the whole country had a manifestation, a motion to try to stop it and bring a spotlight into the subject. Femicide has to stop everywhere, not just here. Every one had signs which said: “Ni una menos.” (translated into “Not even one less”).
Yesterday i heard a story about a place i used to go when i was 13 that its still open. It goes from 10 to 1 in the morning (which in my country is pretty early). It gets bigger and bigger the number of people that go each weekend. Two young 13 year old girls were sexually abused by guys the same age or a year older. 6 guys took her into the middle of the dance floor, pulled her leggins and underwear off and started touching her, 6 FUCKING GUYS. To the other girl they touched her bra and she managed to escape. When people fucking asked the first girl what did she do when it was happening and she answered “I didnt know what to do. There were so many hands.” I think its so fucking wrong that a girl so fucking young has to go through that. ITS SO FUCKING WRONG THAT ANYONE HAS TO GO THROUGH THAT. And what’s worse? I heard one girl in my grade say: “Well, when we went there guys touched our butts but we didnt go running back to our mom saying that.” THE GUYS HAD PULLED HER PANTS AND WERE TOUCHING HER BUT EVEN IF IT WAS JUST THE BUTT ITS WASNT WANTED EITHER. And i can’t even believed i heard that. i’m so angry and more bc this club wasnt doing a fucking thing till it went viral on twitter.
For this things is that women are fighting, not just here but in the whole world.
These are some photos of signs: ( I dont know who they belong to so if its yours please tell me.)
(One femicide per day it’s not a casualty, it’s a social problem.)
(Sorry for the inconvenience but we are being murdered.)
(With shorts or pants, respect me coward!)
(To say “not even one less”: You have to stop calling “pick up lines” to street harassment.)
(To say “ not even one less”: You have to stop asking how short Melina’s skirt was.)
(Your dick doesn’t get bigger if you hit me nor it gets smaller if you respect me.)
We are so angry. We are angry that we cant walk alone at night neither take the bus. We are angry that we have to teach girls how to avoid situations like these instead of stopping the situation all together.
Thank you for reading. i hope that you share it beacause it involves us all not just my country.
No more murders, say women in Argentina. In Argentina, a woman is murdered every 31 hours in a domestic violence incident - according to an NGO. Recently, BBC Trending reported on one woman’s struggle to get sexual harassment taken seriously. Now, a protest initiative against this violence, which was supposed to bring a few hundreds together in the centre of Buenos Aires, has now spread to 80 other cities and across the continent on social media.
PH by Clarín
THIS is happening right now in cities all across Argentina. The march is part of the social media campaign #NiUnaMenos (Not One Less) that followed outrage over high profile homicide cases in the region. According to organisers, the media reported on 1,808 femicides in Argentina between 2008 and 2014. Additionally, a woman is killed every 30 hours in Argentina, the group says. The campaign asks Argentina to commit to five demands including comprehensive sex education, and protection of victims and access to “free legal representation”.