Sostres: Melania Trump is an inspiring "example" for women "unhappy" by the "dictatorship of feminism"
He blames this type of movement for "convincing" women that "they were stupid, and even traitors to their gender."
This time, and it shows, Salvador Sostres in his article in ‘ABC’ feels comfortable recovering one of those themes in which he takes so much pleasure: his attacks (and disparagements) of feminism.
What is striking is that it does so in connection with the victory of Donald Trump although it focuses on his wife.
‘A woman like you’ is ‘dedicated’ to Melania Trump and, therefore, to women who want to dedicate themselves to the family above anything else. Obviously, the fact that the now almost first lady has a service staff that Isabel Preysler would like, for placing us at an already high level, is beside the point.
Feminism is "populism and totalitarianism"
The author begins his writing by saying that "feminism - which is populism and totalitarianism - tried, fortunately without success, to polarize the American elections."
He mentions that, despite Clinton's attempts to gain the female vote, "white women voted overwhelmingly for the president, to the amazement of those who try to analyze American politics from their prejudices." Without knowing if he refers to the clearly misogynistic phrases of the now almost President as "prejudice."
"Loving mother"
After this, the compliments to Melania "loving mother of her son Barron, who tends to be despised for her beauty and dedication to her family", as if the rest of the women without so many possibilities and handsome could not be "loving mothers ”and work or, as Sostres indicates,“ as if one could only be a woman in the manner of the Obama or Clinton ladies ”.
But the best of all is when the controversial writer gets loose. Then he assures that "in its atrocious egalitarianism, feminism has always tried to shame women", in cases where they are not willing to "compete" with men, ignoring the option of freedom of choice.
Freedom to choose
That freedom, for someone who defines himself as a liberal, should be paramount, but Sostres does not mention it in the entire article. He settles it with a resounding, "as if running a multinational was more important than raising your children, or one could only be a" fulfilled "woman - that concept - according to the concept of masculine" fulfillment ".
"Fools" and "traitors to their gender"
For the author of the article, the "example" of Melania could "inspire so many women who the dictatorship of feminism has made feel insecure and unhappy", because they live an existence they do not want "by fateful way of facing their instincts to even convince them that they were stupid, and even traitors to their gender, for wanting to dedicate their lives to taking care of their family ”.
And then the zenith. Salvador Sostres uses a kind of Christian charity to say that “against the use of collectives as throwing weapons, the sacred value of the family as the most beautiful metaphor of the greatest and most compassionate America”; in effect, with a president who, in order to get to the White House, has "thrown" compassion on immigrants and, of course, women.
Of course, with the ‘good intentions’ that are assumed to Sostres, the columnist forgets a fundamental fact when a woman can choose: the work-life balance. This concept is among those difficult to digest by a part of the right.
