Alexia Villasenor
La Jornada Newspaper
Monday, October 13, 2025, p. 8
Given the prevalence of hate speech towards women and the social pressure to fulfill the role of masculinity – being the provider, strong, virile, who does not express emotions – many young people exercise violence against their peers by not having emotional regulation and, although this does not necessarily take place within the universities, it is reproduced in the classrooms in the daily actions of the students, said academic Celia Arteaga Conde, from the University Ibero-American.
The coordinator of the doctorate in critical gender studies at Ibero explained that academic institutions are not isolated centers of everyday life, which is why certain degrees of violence are reflected in them, because “hierarchies are also reproduced that may or may not deepen inequalities and power relations.”
He highlighted that university ombudsmen’s offices must promote other values and emotional management, through different levels of action, mainly prevention to address multiple violence, both gender-based and towards diverse communities.
Higher education institutions, he said, have been denouncing these behaviors for years. In the case of Ibero, a Committee for Attention to Gender Violence was created and there is the University Rights Ombudsman.
Through the defense offices “we have to accompany, determine responsibility and sanction educationally, not so much in a punitive way, but through awareness courses based on the seriousness of this violence.”
He added that the mandates of masculinity and gender roles must be questioned, and forms of aggression must be recognized so that they stop being part of everyday life. He mentioned that today the manospherea virtual space that promotes hate speech towards women and the LGBT+ community, where a certain type of man once again wants to have that superiority to limit the rights and activities of other people.
