for work, last week I attended the traditional Feast of the Harvest in Mendoza. The event revolves around the election, the parade, the presentation and crowning of the Queen and the Viceroy of the Harvest.
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are chosen from the Queens district of Mendoza, which are like the local Miss, elected shortly before the start of harvest of wine grapes in that region.
Historically, the Harvest Queen was selected among grape harvesters. One of the owners of the winery Goyenechea in San Rafael (250 km south of Mendoza) told me that in the thirties, a combine of that place had been chosen queen because shortly before the election, had manucure fact, the jury considered to have hands too soft to be picked.
Today, the choice is a simple beauty contest among all women who write. This, of course, has caused some headaches for the organizers, because the Queen of the Harvest becomes as representative of the Mendoza wine (Receives a salary for a year and a car ...), and it turns out that girls do not know how to call the main strains of Mendoza or unable to make the difference between a stainless steel tank and a cement with epoxy. .. Realizing this, now give courses in viticulture and wine ...
Well, the fact is that for three days, I felt very alone. There was hardly anyone who considers that this party is sexist .
parading women as beautiful objects seemed to you all a beautiful traditional custom (which has nothing traditional, as I explain, but anyway ...). "The girls are so cute! "they said. And the girls of eight, nine, looked at the queens of the Harvest with total admiration, as if they had been in front of real princesses to be dreaming surely, some day, and admired them for their nice face and smile.
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I issued some criticism, I always read as typical of "exaggerating".
And when asked, "Why not also elect a King of Vintage? ", the answer was unanimous:" That's what the Harvest Festival Gay .
Indeed, for about fifteen years, is organized after the traditional Harvest Festival, the gay version (which in fact is called "Harvest for All" and I'll have the pleasure to attend tonight) , which will elect a King and Queen.
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realized, by saying that, that I confirmed that the official Harvest Festival is, therefore, organized by men (heterosexual) and male (heterosexual) men in a world of (heterosexual) that revolves solely around the pure pleasure of men (heterosexual) in a phallocentric society (although supported by women functional system, of course).
I ask myself a question: why, if a King Harvest is for gays, is not considered that the Harvest Queen is for lesbians? Why can not there be a King of the Harvest for heterosexual women in the official Harvest Festival?
The answer is twofold: first, men "really" can not be presented as sexual objects . Males display are necessarily controls to controls. Clearly shown, displayed, is considered demeaning. And that is demeaning to be reserved for gays ... and women. In other words, a category people and reviled by society.
And the second point: women should not look at men as objects. They should not be subject of desire. Should be demure, not enjoying the sex as much as men (but enough to satisfy them and satisfy their needs), and spread the ridiculous ideas that 1) men are not as cute as women, or not worthy of being displayed and 2) women do not look like much as men: they are more in the feeling and admiration of inner beauty (or what it's bulging wallet.)
If they were subjects of desire, the roles would invested, and all evil.
That is, when women are shown, they do a world of heterosexual men who objectify women.
When males are objectified, only to be by and for other men, never by heterosexual women.
Ergo: women, if you want to see beautiful displayed as objects types, go to the Fiesta de la Vendimia Gay.
This brings up an issue I will try in another post: Is it that women want to see men as objects? Is it necessary to level down to show how something can be demeaning? I still I have no answer. What I do know is that the Harvest Festival is clearly a manifestation of the patriarchal society .
(And over on the night before the celebration, the guest of honor was Cacho Chestnut. A singer who has a impresentable item that says: "If you hold another I'll kill you / I give you a beating and then I escaped "... A symbol)
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(And over on the night before the celebration, the guest of honor was Cacho Chestnut. A singer who has a impresentable item that says: "If you hold another I'll kill you / I give you a beating and then I escaped "... A symbol)
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