And along with the victim, millions of women feel unbelieved too. ![]() They are the tip of an iceberg of thousands of men, and some women, who do not believe her either. Neither of the other two judges believed her either. The reflections of this judge show a solidarity of gender towards the perpetrators in front of a victim who is systematically distrusted. For him she did something wrong in the context, she did not meet some of the requirements to be considered a raped woman. ![]() And yet he suspected that she did not suffer enough. González has never had to feel helpless or able to imagine his own reaction in a situation like the one the girl went through. If there was no consent or she was forced, why didn’t she communicate her disagreement? Things did not fit. He was looking for a gesture that would betray her, an equivocal moan, anything that would affirm him in his suspicion that this woman was lying. Months ago, while watching the videos that the defendants recorded with their mobiles, he focused his accustomed gaze on the expressions of the girl while she was being humiliated. Ricardo González, the famous judge who called for absolution, is an exemplar of the vain skepticism behind what is supposedly ‘neutrality’. Meanwhile, calls multiplied to refuse to give up on the street what has been lost in the courts: the right to justice. Thisisthewar, noted journalists and activists alongside many sad and furious anonymous women: thisisthewar. After all the expectation, the sentence has been revealed as something warlike. One needs to read the proven facts of the sentence with a deeply embedded patriarchal myopia, a real patriarchal cataract in the eyes, to not see violence or intimidation in the fact that five adult men put a girl alone in a doorway and did what they wanted to her body.Īnd yet they didn’t believe her. On top of this, one of the judges, Ricardo González, once again called for the absolution of the five men. The sentence calls what happened shortly after this fateful encounter “sexual abuse”. According to the Penal Code, ‘abuse’ discards aggression or intimidation. A meagre and limited word that fails to define what happened to the 18 year old girl that on a morning of 7 July 2016 encountered five men with a well defined plan: to fuck her regardless of her will. On social media one word was buzzing without stop: ABUSE. Yet none of this background prevented the surprise, and even less the outrage, to come.Ī few minutes after the president of the Second Section of the Provincial Court, José Francisco Cobo, read the ruling, groups of women, their hands clad in red gloves, displayed their pain and incomprehension. Everything pointed to some kind of re-adjustment, a sentence that was a kind of challenge. ‘Alert’ was the word on social networks: feminist alert. ![]() It had been clear for weeks that this wasn’t going to leave anyone indifferent. ![]() For days you could feel a kind of countdown, the prelude to one those events that break through inertia and change the course of things. At one o’clock in the afternoon expectations were at breaking point.
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