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"If I were Minister of Equality and my husband, Vice President of the Government, it would occur to me to go out in my defense as an alpha male to protect me from the criticisms of a Government colleague, I would send him to sleep on the couch, or the jar they have next to the kidney-shaped pool. "

With this "prosaic" forcefulness, Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo has criticized Pablo Iglesias and Irene Montero for their performance in the crisis of the law of sexual crimes, which has confronted the two partners of the Coalition Government: United We and the PSOE.

In the Working Woman event organized today by Yo Dona - the women's magazine of EL MUNDO - for International Women's Day, the PP spokeswoman in Congress has shaken her attitude to Iglesias after learning that the Ministry of Justice and the First Vice Presidency The Government had had to amend the legal text drafted by Montero, plagued by legal and even formal errors.

The purple leader criticized, ministeringly, Minister Juan Carlos Campo, assuring that behind the "technical excuses" about feminist law "there is much frustrated macho."

That Iglesias, who is a couple of Montero, has come out to defend her in that way seems like a macho outburst to Álvarez de Toledo. "I can't imagine more humiliation, condescension and machismo. I'm sorry for Irene Montero, but there is no woman more humiliated than her in Spanish politics."

Iglesias and Montero, "antithesis of feminism"

Humiliated, she insisted, "for her husband, who puts her there [in office], and who has to defend her when she gets into a dark alley." "The couple that dictates the canon of equality in Spain is really the antithesis of modern feminism," concluded his argument.

Álvarez de Toledo, who on Tuesday broke away from the PP's institutional guideline and announced that he will not attend the 8-M demonstrations, dedicated the rest of his speech to explaining his concept of "Amazon feminism", which is the mainstream that she subscribes, in the school of the American intellectual Camille Paglia .

"First of all, I believe that women are not part of a homogeneous granitic collective. The person is unique and singular. Neither the skin color nor the place of birth nor sex determine an individual," he said.

The popular leader explained that "the idea that our identity characteristics determine us has already led to racism, nationalism and machismo." "But it can also happen in reverse: considering that all women are identical is a form of machismo," he stressed.

To exemplify it, she has ensured that she feels more identified with Edmundo Bal - deputy of Citizens - than with Irene Montero. "And with Inés Arrimadas, what unites me the most is not the status of a woman, but together we fight against nationalism," he added.

"Feminism skips victimhood"

"I do not accept any form of submission. If I do not accept that a man speaks on my behalf, why do I have to accept it from a woman? Because of what? Why do we both have ovaries?" answering at a whim: "That is a new form of paternalism, in this case maternalism, and a new form of condescension: priestesses tell us how we have to behave in the street, and even in bed."

Álvarez de Toledo believes that "feminism" prevailing today "has been skidding towards victimhood." "Retrofeminism sees women as always innocent victims who always, always, tell the truth, while all men lie," he complained. "Is there really not a single woman who lies? It's a false and unfair vision," since "machismo is a behavior, not an ideology."

Finally, the popular spokeswoman has spoken about the "difficult decision" of having children, and how to make it compatible with the professional career. "It is a decision that does not impose hetero-patriarchy, nor the right, nor the PP, but biology," he has synthesized.

In his opinion, "radical feminism" does not share his vision, but "often imposes a male canon on women: money, success and work. And they are told that they fail if they fail to perform within that masculine framework."

Of course, although she will not join the demonstrations, Álvarez de Toledo has called to "celebrate 8-M with the full force of free women."

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