Hato Mayor.- The Constitutional Court (TC) began this Thursday the IV International Conference on Positive Masculinity, which once again brings together national and international experts to analyze this issue and its importance in the prevention of sexist and domestic violence.
On this occasion, the activity is aimed at the eastern region, under the coordination of the High Court’s Gender Equality Commission, according to a statement from the entity.
Offering the opening remarks, Judge Manuel Ulises Bonnelly Vega, a member of the TC’s Gender Equality Commission, said that this conference responds to “the need to cooperate through training actions for the prevention of violence, where the participants train more every day, be part of the solution to this problem and at the same time become allies in the construction of a culture of peace that serves as a framework for family unity and peaceful coexistence between men and women”.
Also present at the opening ceremony were magistrates Alba Luisa Beard Marcos, coordinator of the TC’s Gender Equality Commission; María del Carmen Santana de Cabrera and Eunisis Vásquez Acosta, members of this commission.
masculinity in crisis
The opening speech, entitled “Men for equal rights. Proposals for family unity and peaceful coexistence in the home”, was given by the Spanish anthropologist Ritxar Bacete González, who analyzed, among other aspects, the crisis that female empowerment and the significant change in traditionally traditional roles have brought about for masculine identity. performed by man.
While the gender equality revolution has led to the emergence of new forms of positive masculinity, “reactionary, violent and equality-resistant forms of masculinity are also emerging,” the speaker said.
“We have a very limited knowledge of how these changes affect the identities of men, as well as the conflicts and confusion that are being generated in family systems and in relational spheres, at the same time that we do not know the impact that resistance has. of some men to equality in the lives and processes of empowerment of women. There is empirical evidence that sexist violence is one of the most extreme expressions of this resistance to change, as a way of maintaining masculine privileges by some men”, said Bacete.
He affirmed that machismo is not an individual ideological construction, but that it requires collective acceptance and participation, at least from the community of reference of the machista. “The eradication of male violence as a social phenomenon will only be achieved by changing the culture and the dominant values among men,” he said.
At the event, which is taking place in the Agricultural and Multiple Services Cooperative of the Eastern Region, the director of Education of the Ministry of Women, Yildalina Tatem Brache, and the lawyer María Corcino will also be presenting.
The International Conference on Positive Masculinity is addressed to the Dominican population, especially the male population, with the interest of preventing all manifestations of discrimination and domestic violence, so that this is a basis for building a culture of peace that serves framework in the family union and the prevention of all forms of domestic violence.
The first was addressed to institutions and organizations of the National District and greater Santo Domingo, as well as to the servers of the TC; the second, to the men and women of the northern region, while the third was concentrated in the south of the country.
It is recalled that the TC has issued several sentences to guarantee the equality and protection of women against men, among which TC/0010/12 stands out, which allows the retention or seizure of the man’s firearm until the end of the criminal proceedings, as a preventive measure to protect women in cases of gender violence.
