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What Are Women For?

What Are Women For?

For providing sexual services.

For reproductive service: gestating sons and daughters, descendants and heirs of men.

For raising, educating, and caring for the new generations of workers and servants.

For taking care of the home and family: cleaning, organizing, feeding, managing and administering domestic logistics.

For taking care of dependent family members: elderly or disabled individuals, those who suffer accidents or illnesses.

For taking care of animals, plants, trees, and family gardens.

For tending to the homes, family members, and animals of privileged classes.

For serving as vessels and containers, for serving as commodities in men's businesses, and for enriching them using our bodies and our babies.

For entertaining, decorating, and brightening up men's gatherings and parties.

For pleasing their eyes, providing them pleasure, and making them feel powerful.

For enhancing the prestige of males, which increases according to the number of women they manage to seduce, enamor, and subdue.

For working for the husband for free, and also working for others for a meager wage.

For supporting their husbands in their projects, remaining unconditionally by their side, facilitating their social advancement, tending to their social and emotional networks, and devoting themselves entirely to the mission of making them happy.

For allowing the accumulation of resources by men and sustaining capitalism as an organizational form based on men's hoarding of wealth and power.

The root of patriarchy is the servitude of women, and from the verb "to serve" derive the words services, servers, and servants.

We are used in households, brothels, churches, fields, factories, reproductive clinics, and baby farms. We are used for their businesses, all of which are controlled by men.

This is why women have been fighting against enslavement and labor, domestic, emotional, sexual, and reproductive exploitation for centuries. Both inside and outside the home.

Women, forced to satisfy the needs and desires of men, are fighting to no longer be treated as maids and to build an egalitarian society without hierarchies, domination, or submission. Not from men to women, nor among women.

Do you now understand why feminism is the movement for women's liberation?

The primary goal of the feminist struggle is to free girls and women worldwide from the abuse and oppression we suffer from husbands and employers.

None of us came into this world to serve, neither to offer services to men nor to wealthy women. Neither for free nor in exchange for coins.

In this struggle for liberation, women have a lot at stake. Every day.

Men who do not recognize us as free beings use us, punish us, rape us, rent us, buy us, and sell us.

Some kill us when we disobey and when we attempt to escape male exploitation and violence.

137 defiant women are killed every day on this planet by their partners.

Society looks the other way, and the media blames us for the violence we suffer.

They silence us when we protest against injustices and demand equality.

The two key words to position ourselves in the present and understand the world we live in are WOMAN and TO SERVE.

And the key word to change this unjust and violent world is LIBERATION.

Coral Herrera Gómez

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Love in a Relationship and the Women Right to Free Time

Love in a Relationship and the Women Right to Free Time

Men have more free time than women. They can rest and sleep more hours than we do, and they have more time to enjoy their passions and loved ones.

They have more time for physical exercise, for playing sports, for engaging in art, music, writing, reading, creating, inventing, and exploring new things.

Time for doing nothing, for enjoying nature, for advancing in their careers, for traveling and discovering new places, for recovering from illnesses, for going on excursions, for learning new things.

They have more time to study languages, pursue master's degrees, prepare for exams, and they have more time to have friends and other partners besides their official one.

Men have a higher quality of life than we do because they have more free time. This is one of the great injustices experienced by women in heterosexual relationships: having to give away our time and energy to men just because we were born women.

If we could negotiate on equal terms, if we had the same rights and the same income, none of us would work for a man for free.

So that they can live like kings, we work twice as many hours as they do at home, and therefore, we have half the free time they do.

This is the case in Spain: according to statistics from the INE (National Institute of Statistics), half of Spanish women in relationships perform the majority of caregiving and household tasks. 32.5% of men do nothing at home.

Globally, women dedicate almost 6 hours a day to these activities, while men spend less than half of that time, around 2 hours a day.

Can we love each other well under these conditions of inequality? Can women enjoy sex and love in abusive relationships?

Obviously, no.

Even though women take on all or most of the caregiving work, we don't do it with a smile. They medicate us so we can keep up the pace and coexist with exhaustion, stress, anxiety, frustration, and anger. They give us pills to activate us and to relax, and to prevent us from exploding.

But even though they want us medicated and numbed, the majority of us protest, demand collaboration, try to negotiate the distribution of tasks, rebel, get angry, fight for our rights, go on strike, and when we've had enough, we separate.

Women are the ones who file for divorce the most, and domestic exploitation is one of the main causes.

Once women rebel against the injustice and realize that care should be mutual and shared, men are left with two options: either start working as a team with their partners or remain alone and pay for the domestic work they used to enjoy for free.

No relationship can function based on abuse and privilege: many of us have already come to the realization that we were not born to serve and that we want to enjoy a Good Life.

As soon as all women in the world become aware that we have the right to have free time, time to rest, and time to enjoy life, the monarchy and male privileges will come to an end.

We have been fighting for this right in the streets for centuries, but above all, in our homes and in our beds—our main battlegrounds.

And we won't stop until the final victory.

Coral Herrera Gómez