Not only punches hurt

Pamela Palenciano, monologue in The Invisible (La Invisible). Saturday at 17.00. no more room for anybody, had never seen the courtyard of The Invisible as full as yesterday; so crowded, so aware of what was happening there. The monologue begins a little later, maybe 20 minutes later than the scheduled time, but hey, we are in Malaga, Andalucia, Spain, and you have to confirm stereotypes. The monologue will displays them: sexist stereotypes exist, ruling the days, in every corner, in every word, every gesture around us, almost no option of escape or exit. Spectacular start to an act of such activism. Probably not premeditated, even due to start later. But it adds, for me, the consistency and legitimacy of her words, gestures and experience."Not only punches hurt" is the best and most satisfying performance I've seen in a long time. Truths like fists, like who likes, at all to costs to admit it. Knowing that this person is and has been touring secondary schools "whispering" as she rightly said yesterday, this story so globalized and hidden at the same time, gives me great satisfaction because it gives me confidence and hope that it is possible other ways to be in this world. Such small gestures that can mean so much for many people both comforting the mind and body, that some people call soul as a communion of both elements, and inspire to continue deconstructing the prevailing schemes.Up and down, what is your place? Where are you? in what precise moment? The violence exercised by inequality, of any kind, caused by any reason susceptible to change at any time depending on who is in power, it can put up or down. If you are born as a woman, you're down; if you are born as a man, you're up. If you are born as a European, you're up; if you are born as latinamerican you're down. If you are born as black, you're down; if you are born as white you're up. If you are born as a human, you're up, if you are born as a dog you're down. It goes on and on. A monologue for each of the situations of inequality. Definitely.Pamela Palenciano shows you gender inequalities, built back in time, long time, shored socially by a capitalist economic construct that embraces and is based on total inequality as a key element of its support, but extends its roots in the dream become nightmare that anyone can reach the top with hardwork and effort. So, up and down, those born women fed on the belief that waiting will always bring achieving this false dream that love conquers it all, and those born men believing themselves in the dream, justified and supported by irrefutable scientific studies and bearers of absolute truth without discussion or palliatives, that the gender difference legitimizes inequality. Had they chosen to be born in woman's body? Would we have chosen to be born in a male body? Masculine, and those who identify and support the characteristics of that masculinity, and femininity and who identify and support the characteristics of femininity, they put people in inequality, not the difference. It is called patriarchy, and its origins date back to centuries of human existence on Earth, collected in various products, from writings, drawings, paintings, sculptures, music, songs, clothes, words ... Everything, absolutely everything around us is imbued with these beliefs, which incidentally, further consolidated the certainty of superiority and inferiority among human beings, with the era of colonialism back in the fifteenth century and did not end up until ...it is not over yet, we continue to practice the ideological colonial imperialism over other peoples, continue to practice colonialism of natural resources on others (Murder of Berta Cáceres and many other people who are fighting for their land, their environments, their ecosystems of life).Pamela Palenciano, a life commitment made, the tax duty of human logic, the satisfaction of giving meaning to your life making sense of other lives, improve yourself improving other selves, although the origin is sad, painful and unaffordable. Worth doing it, for her, for she others, for he others, because if we do not do it, we perpetuate once again by waiting for the change to come. We were taught and tamed in the silent waiting. We whisper not to become the cry of patriarchy in which the powerful voice prevails.A reference person, an idol, a story that we will not hide in History: Pamela Palenciano.