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Date
01/08/2018
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Evgenia Albats
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#Metoo a la Rus

Based on the speech of the Opra Winfrey at the Golden Globe ceremony and its Russian context

“The time will come, and no one will say “ me too ” (and me too),” said the famous TV presenter Oprah Winfrey , taking the Golden Globe for outstanding merits in the cinema.

Oprah Winfrey Photo: Goldenglobes.com

# Metoo - the movement of women in the United States for their dignity and against the right of men to consider them exclusively as a means of satisfying their sexual desires here and now - appeared online in October 2017 and at an incredible speed diverged around the English -language world (however, not only: if you believe the Wikipedia , stories under this hashtag appeared in 86 countries Famous people-from the movie oligarch Harvey Weinstein and actor Kevin Spacey to Senator Democrat Ela Franklin.

Two investigations about sexual harassment in Hollywood, published in two leading political publications in the world - The New York Times (3.5 million subscribers) and in the weekly The New Yorker , which we have traditionally considered 1.2 million subscribers, became trigger.

By the way, New Yorker was also injured: the chief political journalist of the publication, Ryan Lizza (he categorically denies all the accusations), whose investigations about the backstage of Washington politics brought New Yorker, was fired for thousands of investigations - if not hundreds of thousands - subscribers.

However, the real trigger, of course, was the election of the President of the US man who boasted, which could climb into the underpants of any woman who had attracted him and which it is known that for him a special sport is to fill his friend's wife.

It is customary to treat this story in the range from condescending patting according to what is known - “Poor women, now you can’t pinch them for the ass” - to the curious: “And who is the following behind Weinstein?” There are discussions about the presumption of innocence (“people are dismissed without any evidence”), forgetting (or not knowing?) That this is the presumption of criminal, rather than administrative law, or about political background - dejection to the democrats of Hollywood is thus recouped in the victorious Republicans (the absolute majority of derived men are more likely democrats).

Meanwhile, it was worth watching any of the Christmas video broadcasts in order to understand the scale of this problem for Russia: it is the world of male power, which does not allow either the yokes of the evil influence of the Western world with its women - priests, pastors, rabbis, leaders of congregations. The most important sphere of life - and in Russia (as, by the way, in the Muslim world), this is control over the minds (remember the kilometer lines for the relics, as, at one time, the same - to the mausoleum) - is underly a male administration: women in this video were assigned one and only one role - the role of humility, the silent recognition of their subordinate position. The presence in the government of Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets or Minister of Health Veronika Skvortsova should not deceive anyone, like the female leaders of the Central Bank or the head of the CEC-the female emotionality of Ella Aleksandrovna Pamfilova, when she refused to register the presidential candidate to Navalny, only emphasized the entire measure of her, but in that main and that main and that main and that main Exclusively the masculine world, so brilliantly (and prophetically) described in Sorokin's “Oprichnik Day”. By the way, Navalny, what is called Body Language - did not do without sexism, obviously, in the subcortex, at the level of instinct: to accept the abandonment of a woman? Impossible!

The reasons are obvious-clearly, without euphemisms and outlets, they were set out in the work of the famous theologist and feminists Mary Delly (Mary Daly) Beyon God the Father (semantic translation of the title-“rejecting the concept of God the Father”). Namely: the male dominant in political and public life is based on the idea that the Almighty certainly has a male face, although no one knows what it is. In no case do I want to get into theological disputes (“all the apostles of Jesus were men” vs “Peter in the message to the Romans (16: 1) mentions a woman - a deacon”), although I can’t help but not notice that in any of the sacred for the Abrahamic religions of the texts, it seems that there is no indication of the divine primat of masculine over the female (well, not to consider such a recognition, but not to consider it, that the first person, Adam, was hermaphrodite); This is a tribute to the political and social tradition, which was by no means on the sacred, but on a completely animal representation - the right of a strong, predator, to crush (eat) everything around.

Oprah Winfrey, taking the Golden Globe, told the history of Afro-American, Taylor's admission, which died 10 days ago. In 1944, she was abducted and raped by white men. The criminals threatened to kill her if she reports the incident to law enforcement officers, but Taylor, despite all the fears, filed an application with the police. However, this ended with a zilch - those who raped her were not held accountable. Oprah optimistically concluded that now, including thanks to the #Metoo movement, this can no longer happen. In the USA - possible. And in Russia?

How many women in Russia can tell about rape at work and at home? Millions. How much will they remember how this vile carcass falls on you, covering his mouth with his hand and crawling with jelly -like flesh in you? How many of my colleagues who worked in the war in Chechnya will remind the horror of the need to go through the block-post of federal troops or the negativity of one on one with a local macho in the hotel, say, in Nazran-thanks to the State Duma deputy Alik Osovtsov, who removed one such Caucasian warrior from me, convinced that the woman-journalist from Moscow dreams of giving birth to Vainah. However, that - the Muslim Caucasus: when in twenty -one years I came to work in the Izvestia newspaper, men, the Golden Fund of Soviet Journalism, made bets: who was the first to drag me to bed (nobody), and the refusal to listen to the editor -in -chief of my neck and chest cost me considerable problems in another, not worse Soviet newspaper. Since that time, little has changed (not for me - my problems are successfully solved by my 59 years): Talk about how this or that woman “makes a career for a front -handed career that is a common place. Because the belief that the sexual characteristics of women work better than the brains - almost universally even among the most liberal and intellectually developed representatives of the Russian male community.