The family is a mini-cell of society, which is supposed to provide us with security and shelter. The more we perceive the dangers of the external environment (job insecurity, financial pressures, imbalance between the official and actual situation, inaccessible health care…), the more we take refuge within four walls, in our family circle. But what, when the new economic and political order with extended working days, low wages, high costs, ever-worsening social support sacrificed the very family and family life first. However, this will never be proclaimed as the cause of a bad social climate, when there is a more convenient solution for it: a return to traditional, ossified family patterns, where a priori every man is a master and a woman a subordinate servant.
Thus, the accumulated dissatisfaction with life, the feeling of humiliation, helplessness and failure will again be released within the family instead of public protests, on the streets. It is clear who always gets the short end of the stick. Another reason for the revival of “traditional values” is society’s need for children – a new workforce and defense force, i.e. the army. Both are in the service of those interest groups for whom the welfare of an individual, a child or a parent, is not a priority. Therefore, they will direct their barbs, among other things, to the relationship between men and women. The latter are, according to statistics, the most frequent victims of male violence and murder-femicide. These are facts that many men are unwilling or unable to face. Therefore, they declare themselves victims of feminism, which takes away from them, what, in fact – the power over women to direct their lives according to their own interests? Thus, She would be left without what she barely got hold of, the possibility of making decisions about herself and her destiny. Instead of the sexes cooperating with each other, helping each other, seeking common joy and progress, they once again stand against each other as if they were enemies.
Over the centuries, human nature has been taught to doubt good and harmonious coexistence, which is why we repeatedly fall into a vicious circle of wars and disasters, from which the false ideologues of the “infallible tradition of mastering the other” derive the most benefit.
Mimi Šegina, Domžale
