Women have taken power, there is no going back

International woman's day is today, five months after the discovery of Harvey Weinstein's behavior that had broken many women, who decided to break many other things. They broke their excuses. The silence broke. And the humble appearance of many institutions was broken. You might say a dam broke down, and a wall of women's confessions was spilled before what happened before, but never the way it happened now. This time, women not only related their stories of being attacked and abused; they gave names, and abusers lost jobs, reputations, businesses and their careers. They gave names, and that was important; people heard; their testimony had consequences. Because there's a big difference between being able to say something and just listening and respecting it. The consequences are often those that make the difference.

Something's changed. What is often neglected is that there have been previous changes in order for something like that to happen. Something invisible has made such overturning and visible transformation possible. People often put the revolution and the innuendament [the belief or lack of gradual change] opposite one another, but if the revolution is something that changes things immediately, incapacity often sets the ground for it to happen. Something happens all of a sudden, and this is wrongly thought of as something from heaven. But the anchorage from heaven usually means getting out of the outside things people pay attention, out of the slow work done by someone, or by many for months, years, or even decades.

Same sex marriages arrived suddenly in the United States when the Supreme Court legalized them throughout the American nation, separate those states that had previously legalized them. And this came as a result of a bold work by many nonetherosexual people and their friends, which made it evident that no one was heterosexual, making it important for anyone to get rights, also making people with different orientations believe that these rights could be earned. And it happened because the test case in California was done by what seemed to be a conservative jury ? Federal Judge Vaughn Walker named George H. W. Bush, who had been close to him during naming time but who was gay, and that his attitude towards his sexual orientation evolved as the whole culture evolved around him. He was in favor of marriage and took the case to the Supreme Court. The judges decided through what was a conglomerate sense of self-evident usually seemed to be the cause of a gradual gradual change in social norms and beliefs. The judges made the last decision, but the change stemmed from the motivating effects of small actions and changes.

#Up moment/ #With Too doesn't make a difference; it's a revolt we've been preparing for for decades, or maybe it's the point in which a very long, slow and often silent process suddenly became fast and loud. Part of this work took place in the last five years, but most of the last 50 years. We've had a tremendous collapse in the last five years at the end of 2014, I wrote these lines: “I've waited my whole life for what this year brought.” What this wave brought is recognition that each act of gender violence is part of an epidemic. It has brought a partial end to the treatment and isolation of these incidents, such as the blame of the victims themselves, as a result of mental illness or other deviations. It has meant more distribution of willingness to admit that these cases of violence are extremely widespread, and this was followed by emphatic impacts of value, privileges, and attitudes built within culture.

It is a change that occurred earlier, for other righteous issues, as something that had long been tolerated and that was eventually accepted and denounced, which meant that people for whom that particular injustice was not a problem had finally accepted the pain of those for whom the matter was a problem. This change from tolerance to intolerance is usually the result of a power shift in who decides, or a change in what kind of story they dominate, or whether whose style is published or believed. It is a delicate change in who matters that precedes dramatic changes.

In this case, from 2012, a new generation of young women would not be intimated by shame or bureaucracy and would talk about violations and more, about organizing against it. Social media have given women the capacity to form a kind of Greek choir when a story about gender violence erupted. We have removed many of the excuses that attempted to reduce the impact of gender violence, as apparently we had with the violence caused by weapons in the United States. We're still working to get even those who learn slowly to admit that harassment at work isn't a problem of “a bit of bad apples”; that removing some abusers from the country doesn't solve any problems that change in beliefs about who has the right to do, and who should just accept it.

But even éne has changed and I believe that this is central to why so many things have changed. Anyone who determines what confessions to be told, who should be believed, whose words are weighty, and who is in charge of them has already changed. We have not lost the followers of old world understandings, of which men's lives are worth more, and their words have greater credibility, but we have gathered people who no longer believe in that rule. The feminists slowly but constantly took on more power and with feminists I mean everyone, regardless of gender, who thinks first women deserve equal treatment, and the second that systematic misogynia remains a serious problem.

And here we can look at the slow but long work of feminism to put women in positions of power; in order to work on changing the racial structure of who holds power. Who decided what stories they were worth? Reporter Sharon Waxman says that when she was in the New York Times she tried to tell the truth about Weinstein in 2004, but was rejected by the man editor, who did not understand why this aspect of confession mattered. We know Ronan Farrow started his investigation with the NBC barrier that refused to support him, so he took his story to New Yorker. Farrow is not a woman; the shift is not only in the positions of women's power but of anyone who believes women deserve equality in access to power, deserving credibility and justice. We wanted to keep sending the right people to justice, the media, the courts, the economy and schools who understand and empathize with even those who are not white, who are not straight, who are not rich or in some other way, who are not local, or men. Those who believe in justice and of equal worth.

This rebellious moment is now calming down, but things will not be the same as before. One friend finally told me that many women were encouraged to go to work after molesters were dismissed. This had made them more confident, inspired, and creative. We've had too many stories about men who are uncomfortable because things are changing, more than women who are feeling more comfortable than ever, for the same reason.

We will return to a stage where change takes place slowly and delicately enough to be invisible to most people, although not to people who have a broader look and those who promote change or benefit from these minor changes in their homes, jobs, or erotic relationships. And so, change will reach a point from which there will be another breach.

Translated from Guardian, Periscope