Dani Alves. Soccer. Sports. It is the reference that social network X offers to the trend of the day. The former soccer player is being tried in the Barcelona Court for a crime of sexual assault, but the ball rules. The Alves case is the first opportunity that the law of only yes means yes has to vindicate itself without ambiguity and the evidence that the system can work. A victim who reports despite the status of the alleged aggressor, a truthful story, a nightclub with a protocol against sexual assault and trained personnel, a reference hospital and empathetic investigators. Then there are the comings and goings of Alves' version, his lawyers and his mother distributing images of the victim on Instagram because you can't smile again if you were raped a year ago.
The parallel trials that turned some television programs into garbage are a daily menu on the networks. Alves will be a trend again tomorrow when she testifies in public, while the victim cannot be seen or heard to preserve her identity. However, the case subjects judicial dynamics to examination that after decades of vindication continue to re-victimize the complainants. The accumulation of statements to verify the veracity of her story, the screen to separate her from the accused...
These are issues of democratic health that are overlooked to the rhythm of Zorra, Zorra. The song that will represent Spain in Eurovision is already a matter of State. Pedro Sánchez defends a “fun” feminism and assures that the fachosphere would have preferred El cara al sol. When the Biscayan punk Vulpes shouted in the eighties I like to be a bitch, the State Attorney General filed a complaint for public scandal and cost the TVE program Caja de Ritmos its life.
Who is a victim and who is a slut? @LauraFreixas maintains that “‘left-wing’ politicians show that they have no idea about feminism. They jump on any bandwagon that promises them votes and a veneer of progressivism, even if they are women, setting an example of insulting themselves and everyone else.” The recipient is @ximopuig: “A song with a message, an artist with a conscience. “Outside borders.” There are some vehement for elevation: “It represents from beginning to end what Spain is.” And others open the Eurovision focus, @xqTTs. “Ah, there are people offended because a song whose name is Zorra is going to Eurovision. "It offends me more that Israel participates, but I understand that the word Bitch can be more offensive than the bombing of thousands of civilians in Gaza." And another war breaks out...
