WHAT IS THE SITUATION OF WOMEN IN CASTILE?
There is an apparent calmness in the center of the hurricane.
Nevenka Fernández had the courage to face a brutal system, and, along with the cleverness of the writer Juan José Millás, they both changed the history of women in Castile (2.001.)
"There is something lost, something that I have never been told" is the title of the book "Nevenka, against the reality".
Nevenka could survive and tell what happens when a woman is harassed.
Nevenka could come up to the surface to tell it like it is. But, tied up round her neck, she brought up a black box that registered the gestation.
That black box that had been sealed since ever contained the "something" that nobody had ever told her.
And the "something" that never nobody had told her was that neither, all her personal and professional achievements and goals, nor her brilliant mind would lead her to a successful career because Castilian reality would have its own priorities, which would speak about satisfying sexual needs of Castilian men.
There is a before and an after in the history of Castile because there where the silence used to be taken as invulnerable, all of the sudden, it is unscrewed.
Nevenka used to look at the fishbowl in her parents house.
She notices that some fishes, the most beautiful, colourful and cheerful ones have slowly disappeared in an enclosure that for her symbolized the highest protection. Predation, inside the fishbowl, takes place in silence.
When Nevenka says "no", she triggers the rage of the authority who is harassing her.
Inside the fishbowl, black, ugly and lazy fishes eat cheerful ones.
This violence is not the traditional with bombs and loud explosions; this type of terrorrism leaves behind pieces of evidence and it is noisy. Traditional terrorism triggers immediate social indignation, and it used to be out of societies.
But Castilian misogynist terrorism takes place anonymously and it is much more effective that conventional terrorism. It is a terrorism that is inside Castilian society, so doctors, lawyers, and magistrates are part of the problem too.
Misogynist terrorism is integrated in Castilian daily life taken as a normal behaviour, and it gets many women immersed into a state of confusion; women experience violence in her jobs and environments, but they feel impotent as they are told "they are the ones who feel damaged with no reason."
Castilian society doesn´t have any capacity neither to take in gifted women, and this is one of other reasons why Castile is paralysed.
It is almost impossible that an attractive and intelligent woman may survive in a brutal environment like Castilian one.
Psychiatrists and psychologists make women guilty in their consulting rooms with manipulation and subtle methods. They make them believe "they feel damaged, but nothing has happened but in their imaginations".
And for that reason, Castilian psychiatrists give them tranquilizers that put in danger women´s life.
The obsession of Castilian psychiatrists to get sexually involved with their victims is a huge problem.
It is very important that Castilian women know how to break up with this situation.
In the opposite, gifted people are isolated in poor environments. "The God of Green Valleys" tells (like it had never been told) about the violence that gifted people suffer in Castile and in Spain, and the mortal jealousy that teenage girls feel towards physical and spiritual beauty of those women who are more gifted, and how psychiatrists treat this serious problem from their own patriarchal perspectives treating women like they were idiot, inferior or unbalanced, which misleads Castilian gifted women to believe they are sick instead of making them see their real gifts and talents.
Castilian society has the ability to create sick women where there are gifted women.
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