La igualdad entre los sexos, un espejismo o, mejor, una farsa

Until yesterday, I used to say: equality between the sexes is a mirage. Now I begin to think that it is a farce. It is necessary to believe, and make others believe that, if women do not fill the same posts as men, do not have the same positions, do not choose the same jobs and do not aim at the same goals, then that is the irrefutable proof of discrimination to the detriment of women. To tell oneself simply that, perhaps, women do not want to because, perhaps, they have other priorities, is such an audacious hypothesis that no professional woman politician dares to formulate it. Some woman sociologist yes, but cautiously. Because of this, with all the seriousness in the world, statistics are published in which it turns out that, when it comes to the feminine condition, Italy is more backward than Vietnam or Rwanda. But why such a farce? The answer that comes to me is simply this: it continues to be necessary to pretend that women are inferior to men. Not any more through nature, as used to be said, but rather through discrimination. It is time to finish with this pseudo-feminist drama. We would then begin to win back time to deal with the real problems that present themselves. One of them is the male attachment to power. The true problem is not the fact of the failed division of power, fifty/fifty, between women and men, but the attachment that men have to power. If this was a moral vice, we would be able to look for the way to correct it, like avarice or greed used to be corrected. But the male attachment to power is a matter of identity. It is transmitted by the current models of virility.