Respect, men.

It is not easy to be a man. It's a genre of its own slave overvaluation, because much is expected from a man.

By Margarita Rosa de Francisco

Fuente: El Tiempo

Published on October 28, 2015

Translated by Carlos Chocontá

Sometimes I pity you, ancestral peers, because of the rush of mad women, who drunken on feminist cause, we feast on the opportunities we find to rant against abuses of machismo, making of our valid speech a strenuous nag. It is healthy also to open a space to note that men have a difficult role in society and they have built history keeping bravely the heavy responsibility of being the tough ones. The fear of breaking down, of crying, of collapsing, to show that they are emotional, that is, to reveal that part which makes them beautifully helpless and human, leads to the, always forced, despotic, tyrannical behavior. My respects to you, millions of men, soldiers dragged century after century to distant battlefields to respond with his own chest, in a brawl against imaginary enemies created by the obscenity of powers. Carrying the hero medal and other deformed symbols to signify virility must be unbearable.

It is not easy to be a man. It's a genre of its own slave overvaluation, because much is expected from a man. To "fulfill" and succeed with women and in their profession, to be a leader, strong, courageous, and please, ¡do not be gay! Not to mention the stress of their sexual performance. For better or worse, they have between their legs the "holy" exposed and compassionate zero that betrays them in the most compromising moments, like a living lie detector, ready to glorify or betray them. Along with the venerable flag not only wave sizes, but honor, power, value and the sample of a "real man". ¡Such great expectations for an innocent part of body!

No wonder men are tired of having to be the sturdy one at all times, and his neurosis results in mistreatment of women, that counterpart who demands eagerly to make her feel safe and secure. This goes to his masculine energy to stand up, act and claim their rights. Also, a man could use his femenine aspect to know his vulnerability, since not take the risk to identify his feared state of fragility generates that confusing frustration so often transformed into any kind of violence.