Iñako Díaz-Guerra
Updated Tuesday, March 26, 2024-21:58
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The first novel by
Henar Álvarez
(Madrid, 1984) has not fallen off the best-seller lists since its publication.
'Ansia'
revolves around a central theme in the work of the screenwriter, comedian and presenter: being an imperfect woman, with impulses and errors, in a society where moral demands are not, by any means, equal. "I always knew that I was going to write a novel and that I was going to do it well. This is the second book, counting the comic (
La mala leche
), and I know that there will be a third and a fourth because what I have always liked the most is tell stories. I have pursued it by land, sea and air and I am very proud of the result," she explains.
I have the feeling that the activist and feminist Henar sometimes overshadows a long and very solid career. Do you feel that way? That only happens to people who don't follow me, who hear my name and think of the feminist or the red one or whatever. However, the people who follow me are very clear about everything I do and everything I have done, which is much more than those clichés. I do four programs right now: I present 'Buenismo Bien' and 'El Olimpo de las Diosas' and I collaborate on Marc Giró and 'Estirando el chicle'. I write and make a crazy amount of content a week. Another thing is that what goes viral almost always has to do with something that goes through us women, but even that goes with jokes. All my work, even comedy, is written and processed a lot beforehand. When I was little I had 200 million journals written, it has always been the way I express myself best. I don't know, I think that cliché is fading.
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The protagonist of the novel is, quote, "a woman condemned to misbehave." What is bad behavior for a woman in this society? Behave in a human way. Anyone can identify with her: she loses control of something in which she had complete security and, as would happen to any person, she becomes destabilized. Fears and doubts start to creep in and that makes you make bad decisions, step in puddles and suddenly one day you find yourself in shit up to your eyes. That happens to the protagonist and it has happened to almost all of us at some point. The differential nuance that the novel has is that this time this, which has been the plot of millions of novels, happens to a woman and not to a man. And, of course, it is not the same. No. I wanted to tell how unequal relationships and power relationships work in our society, which are absolutely all of them and man ends up having the upper hand, no matter what he has done, because he always has the throwing weapon of our sexuality. Even the last lord of the underworld, if he has the balls to throw you to the ground, he takes up the issue of sexuality and can destroy even the most powerful woman, something that would never happen to a man. No one would say to delegitimize him: "he has fucked a lot." On the contrary, they would congratulate him and maybe even promote him. So in 2024 it is still a problem that women fuck. Of course. The novel has two characters who represent that completely absurd moment when you find yourself involved in a scene for the simple fact of fucking and you wonder why you are the problem if you haven't done anything wrong. We are exactly the same as always. The other day I was watching the documentary they made about the rape of
La manada
and, man, it's incredible that in a trial they try to justify a rape with the fact that, months later, the girl was wearing a t-shirt that said 'Whatever you do, take off your panties.' At what point is this relevant? I don't understand it, it's outrageous, but it's the society we live in where you can always find a way to discredit a woman, to make her seem crazy or hysterical or her opinion doesn't count, because she has a active sexual life. A woman who behaves like a human being in terms of sexuality is considered a dangerous subject. In the case of Dani Alves, an attempt was also made to hold the victim responsible because she had previously danced with him. Yes, yes. Since we danced, you can drill my throat with your cock without my permission. It's very strong. What creates frustration and anger in me is that the progress, which exists, is so slow. I have a sad confidence in knowing that I am going to die and I am not going to see this solved, but at least steps are being taken forward. Maybe one day a woman can enjoy sex with the same peace of mind as a man and if someone, to screw her, sends a video of her fucking, they say: "Fuck, congratulations." And she stays there and nothing happens and it doesn't end her career or penalize her. I am confident that at some point it will happen, but right now we are very far away. Anything a woman thinks about herself is wrong. Are we demanding more from you? Much more. Anything other than caring, thinking about others, and putting yourself last makes you a bad mother, a bad girlfriend, a bad daughter... When a guy does it, no one says anything. The level of demand in all facets is not comparable and, furthermore, what is seen as human behavior in a man is seen as an anomaly in a woman because it falls outside the role that was intended for her centuries ago. You are going to turning 40, a historic barrier for women in the world of entertainment. Are you worried? I'm not worried because in the podcast sector we rule and it doesn't happen. We have had to find our own space and create it our way to prevent traditional media governed by men from continuing to subject us to this slavery of age, physical appearance, etc. Honey, this is my plot and you don't set the rules here. I sometimes feel like we are living on the island of the Amazons and I think it has to do with the arrival of female bosses in different positions of responsibility in this world. We have carried this out in our own way and the overwhelming majority of listeners are women. Is there humor for women? Of course. I discuss this a lot because I know it doesn't look good to say, but it's the truth. When they tell me that there is no humor for men and women, I laugh. What are you telling me? Of course there is. Are you going to empathize the same with a man from Wisconsin as with one from Malasaña? No, right? Well this is the same. There are universal themes,But when you start talking about life, day-to-day life, what you empathize with, it is evident that there is a difference and you feel identified with someone who has experiences more similar to yours. Denying that is ridiculous, of course humor has gender. I have a radar to detect humor made by women, too. How do you notice it? In the focus, always in the focus. I notice it a lot when I watch old family movies like 'Home Alone' with my son. There are things that I don't like because they are daughters of their time, but sometimes I am genuinely surprised when I see how well a gender issue is seen in a movie from 30 years ago and I say it to my boyfriend: "This is an aunt wrote." I pick up my phone, I look for it on Filmaffinity and I always get it right. Sure, man, because it's not the same prism, there is universal humor, but you like better to listen to people who speak from the same place as you. Of course I love seeing other realities and how other people live to be able to understand the world in its entirety, but first of all, what friends do you have? Friends quite similar to you in age, sex, social class and hobbies. Well, the same thing happens to us aunts and it was necessary to create a space where we could find that humor made by and for us. From there they are not going to kick us out for turning 40 or gaining three kilos. Zero worry, then. Well... I wish it were that simple. Yes, I am afraid of turning a birthday because women have been inoculated with the fear of becoming an invisible person after a certain age and no one wants to be invisible. But then I plant my feet on the ground and say: "But, girl, how scary? We built all this to escape that fucking shit." My 30-year-old followers are going to have a birthday just like me and they are not going to stop listening to me because I turn 40 or 50. You rationalize it and say: "They are not going to dent my self-esteem, they are not going to achieve it."But first of all, what friends do you have? Friends quite similar to you in age, sex, social class and hobbies. Well, the same thing happens to us aunts and it was necessary to create a space where we could find that humor made by and for us. From there they are not going to kick us out for turning 40 or gaining three kilos. Zero worry, then. Well... I wish it were that simple. Yes, I am afraid of turning a birthday because women have been inoculated with the fear of becoming an invisible person after a certain age and no one wants to be invisible. But then I plant my feet on the ground and say: "But, girl, how scary? We built all this to escape that fucking shit." My 30-year-old followers are going to have a birthday just like me and they are not going to stop listening to me because I turn 40 or 50. You rationalize it and say: "They are not going to dent my self-esteem, they are not going to achieve it."But first of all, what friends do you have? Friends quite similar to you in age, sex, social class and hobbies. Well, the same thing happens to us aunts and it was necessary to create a space where we could find that humor made by and for us. From there they are not going to kick us out for turning 40 or gaining three kilos. Zero worry, then. Well... I wish it were that simple. Yes, I am afraid of turning a birthday because women have been inoculated with the fear of becoming an invisible person after a certain age and no one wants to be invisible. But then I plant my feet on the ground and say: "But, girl, how scary? We built all this to escape that fucking shit." My 30-year-old followers are going to have a birthday just like me and they are not going to stop listening to me because I turn 40 or 50. You rationalize it and say: "They are not going to dent my self-esteem, they are not going to achieve it."
The ring of light does not illuminate enough, but there is Henar.JAVIER BARBANCHO
Recently we had the case of Dani Martín and his song to Ester Expósito. A middle-aged man fantasizing about a twenty-year-old girl and the social response has been that he is going to fill the WiZink eight times over. And nothing happens, it seems perfect to me, because women do it too, we also often want to sleep with young men, which What happens is that it is not seen. But there is a reality: Madonna's boyfriend is her dancer and he is 40 years younger, I have a lot of friends who break up and automatically have affairs with younger guys, I wrote it myself in my comic. What happens is that this story is not told, what is transmitted to you everywhere is that men only want younger women and you believe it, but when you forget about the media and literature and go out into the world Really, that's not like that. We 40-year-old women like young men as much as we like guys, but life from our point of view has not been able to be told in a massive way. You left Twitter last year. Yes, and it has changed my life a lot. A better, I understand. Yes, yes, yes. Seriously, let's see if that social network dies now because it is pure toxicity, it does not contribute anything good. It has been abandoning her and stopping having problems, I no longer receive terrible insults and attacks constantly. Dead the dog, the rabies is gone. Now almost all I get are comments from people who follow me, consume my work and like it. That's what I receive massively every day, none of the other things that made me quite bitter for a while. How much harm did receiving so much hate do to you? More than harm, it made me cum all the way to the pussy. There came a time when I understood that I don't have to put up with that, I'm leaving here and that's it. I didn't even want to go on Twitter anymore, not even to be a speaker for my work. It didn't matter in a place where simply saying good morning there were insults. Honestly, fuck you, you don't give me anything. Furthermore, it is a totally unreal world. If it were from the comments that Rosalía receives on Twitter, you would think that her career was over. Have you been involved in some controversy between different feminist currents, how have you handled it? It happens in all social movements and especially on the left. I assume it and that's it. I am a cultural worker and talking about feminism in my work does not make me an activist. I'm not, it's not my job. In fact, one thing that worried me about the book is that there would be people who would feel disappointed when reading it because I haven't made a kind of manual for the perfect feminist. You put a lot of pressure on yourself. Yes, yes, but I thought about it. That's why sometimes it bothers me that something is expected of me that I am not. What I do in my work is talk about the things that go through me as a person and try to normalize that women are human beings with the same defects, vices or drives as men. It seems like a fairly obvious message. But it is not. With all the controversy of the Eurovision song,
Bitch
, they asked me expecting a positioning and the truth is that I don't care. Exactly the same. If that makes me a worse feminist, we're screwed. I feel that with everything we women do, a lot is demanded of us. First, that you were within the parameters expected for men to like you; Now that we're over that, you have to be a model of perfect feminism. I don't know what's next, but it's exhausting and it makes me angry. Do you notice that in your private life, that when someone meets you they expect you to respond to a preconceived image? Has it ever happened to me that my friends introduce me to someone? , he tells me something controversial, I nod, continue smoking and he tells me: "I thought you were going to answer me." No, look, I'm not on duty, I don't give a shit about what you think about this and it's a Saturday night and I have a thousand better plans than to start arguing about feminism with you. I'm fed up, I don't want to educate anyone. I want to make people laugh, entertain and write works so that people have a good time. Honey, I'm not your mother or your teacher, I'm partying and leave me alone. In this multidisciplinary career that you have, what do you have left? I would like to write audiovisual fiction. In fact, the book has a movie, but I know it's screwed because there aren't that many platforms and, of all the projects that are presented, having yours taken is like winning the lottery. Then, of course, the glass ceiling for women in audiovisuals is brutal. Female directors and screenwriters are emerging, but the percentage is ridiculous. Anyway, I would like it a lot, but today I am very happy with my situation. I'm fucking sick, honestly. I would sign to stay like this, mind you. Being as ambitious as I am, I stand here happy.