We start from different places. Women continue to hold less economic power, face cultural and educational constraints that encourage silence, are excluded from religious spaces, where authority remains male, and in business contexts they continue to be evaluated by their body before being recognized for their competence. The disproportionate weight of care and responsibility for collective failures still falls on them.
When we talk about reviewing rights, when autonomy over one’s own body is relativized, it is not an abstract debate. It’s about power. It’s about security. It’s about life.
Pensar que Portugal está imune a essas dinâmicas é um erro confortável. A violência no namoro, a normalização do controlo e das proibições, a culpabilização das vítimas e a indulgência social perante agressores mostram que o problema não é exógeno. It’s structural.
Some monsters have a name and a face. Others benefit from a silent complicity that protects them.
Women continue to live in fear. And fear, when it is systematic, is not an emotion, it is a political condition.
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