The answer is absurd, surreal, but still not complicated: because in reality, left-wing feminism - in order to sell an election slogan - does not protect, but actually attacks women.
The case in Spain is a living example of this - writes the author of The European Conservatie - as more than 350 rapists, sex offenders and pedophiles were recently released from Spanish prisons before they had served their sentences, just because the socialist government passed a new law in October under the pretext of "protecting" women.
The controversial law is also known as the "solo sí es sí" (only a yes is a yes) law, referring to the condition that women's express consent must be sought before sex. In addition to being a collection of anti-male nonsense, the law redefines the concept of rape and abuse, as well as the punishments associated with these crimes, prompting thousands of people convicted of sexual assault to request a review of their convictions, resulting in hundreds of them being released immediately.
This law defines "sexual assault" as any act "that violates another person's sexual freedom without their consent," omitting the term "sexual abuse" altogether.
and thus effectively erases the nuances that distinguish rape, abuse, harassment, and other forms of sexual crime that once merited separate punishments.
Most of all, the duration of punishments imposed for sexual crimes was reduced, so that while rapists could previously receive between 6 and 12 years in prison, this item has now been reduced to between 4 and 12 years. Consequently, many criminals and repeat offenders, including those who have committed particularly heinous crimes, are now being released from prison.
Is there anyone in the world who can claim that a law that lets hundreds of rapists go free is good for women? Yes, of course: the postmodern left is capable of such self-contradiction.
However, the new Spanish law also contains other interesting features, for example, from now on, only those sexual acts that take place after the express and verbal consent of the woman are considered non-punishable sexual acts.
In practice, it is impossible to prove this consent, so under Spanish law the men have lost the presumption of innocence. Fortunately, however, their sense of humor remained: official forms created for women are circulating on social media, on which they can give their consent to flirting and receiving compliments, because the Spanish government has also declared this activity a crime.
Any "expression, behavior or offer of a sexual nature that creates an objectively humiliating, hostile or intimidating situation for the victim" will be punishable in Spain.
All of this is a perfect example of how the identitarian left works in the real world: its feminism does not protect women, it attacks them, just to sell an election slogan. They convince the public by passing a "feminist law" and then release imprisoned sexual predators into society.
Finally, anyone who decries the obvious, that the law puts women and girls at greater risk of being raped, is branded a "far-right". And, of course, the issue of explicit consent does not benefit young girls.
In general, young people in Spain received the new law as follows:
many of them simply do not want to get into trouble with girls and prefer to play with their mobile phones, place sports bets, drink in each other's company, or indulge in pornography, replacing any emotional or sexual connection with the opposite sex.
Meanwhile, those who still dare to flirt and find a partner are careful to take screenshots of every message they exchange with women, in case they are threatened with a report after a one-sided breakup.
And this is incredibly sick and toxic. Men don't want to touch the law, and thanks to the left, women have become synonymous with trouble.
Of course, not only in courtship, but also in long-term commitment and parenthood, the Spanish justice system always sides with the woman if something goes wrong and there is a dispute about child custody.
But whatever the purpose of this law, the biggest losers will still be women first, and marriage and family second.
In the end, the socialists in Spain managed to make true what the always acerbic and brilliant HL Mencken wrote:
"A bachelor is one who wants a wife but is glad not to have one."
Featured image: Femen activists hold signs reading “solo sí es sí” (only yes is yes) as they demonstrate in front of Spain's Ministry of Justice in Madrid on February 7, 2023. (Photo by Pierre-Philippe Marcou / AFP).
