The government delegate in Galicia, Pedro Blanco, insisted this morning on the importance of raising awareness about certain male chauvinistic behaviors among the youth of which adolescent girls are victims, especially at the level of the couple. She did so during the presentation of the exhibition ‘Dáte Conta’, which opened today in the Naves del Metrosidero in A Coruña, and with which the Government wants to draw attention to this form of violence against women.
The delegate said that violence within a couple cannot be normalized. “We must recognize it and give it a name so we can fight against it, since any of you can be a victim and we cannot tolerate it,” said the delegate to about 80 students of the IES Menéndez Pidal (Zalaeta) of A Coruña.
The mayor of A Coruña, Inés Rey, also took part in the event and was attended by the Government’s deputy delegate in A Coruña, María Rivas. Pedro Blanco indicated that the exhibition forms the program developed by the Government Delegation in Galicia around 25N, with different acts to promote and raise awareness about the elimination of gender violence.
In this sense, he stressed that this struggle “is not only the task of politicians; it is the task of everyone and mainly of you, young people. We need your help to put an end to this scourge,” the delegate said.
Partner violence
The exhibition presents, through information posters and cartoons, attitudes and realities of male violence, mainly in the area of the couple, to raise awareness among young people.
The drawings reflect situations and behaviors of devaluation, machismo, psychological violence, emotional abuse and obsession. In addition to the cartoons, in the exhibition you can read several sentences with data on these violence from the study The situation of violence against women in adolescence in Spain, conducted by the Ministry of Equality on a sample of more than 13,000 young people aged 14 to 20.
Among these data, which the delegate also highlighted in his speech, are realities such as that 4% of adolescents confess to having received messages through the Internet or on the mobile phone in which they insult, threaten, offend or frighten them, or that one in ten young adolescents was isolated from their friends, controlled by their partner or incited to take part in sexual activities in which they did not want to participate.
“With this exhibition we seek to raise awareness among young people and make them reflect on machista attitudes so that they become involved in this cause and join the fight against machismo, building an egalitarian, inclusive, more just and violence-free society,” concluded the delegate.