8M, once again

Ukraine has shown us that war knows no gender (for those who still doubt it) and the massive call-up of male personnel has lit a spark in Western feminist politics, showing them that reality goes in other directions, although there have been more than a few women who have decided to enlist voluntarily in the Russian-Ukrainian war.

However, it seems that our female politicians in Spain have not yet fully understood all the women who make up the Armed Forces, those who wear the uniform on the outside and those who wear it on the inside, those who are in the vanguard and those who are in the rearguard, those who deploy on missions and those who stay at home, those who receive medals and those who have held up the rearguard to receive medals, those who are rewarded and received by the government and those who are forgotten and only remembered when the coffin arrives.

These are all the women of the armed forces. The women who deploy to the Latvian border, the women who spend months on a submarine or are spies in the wrong areas. The ones who put on their uniform every morning and tie their hair up in a bun to lead a battalion, fly a fighter or tend to the war wounded. These are the vanguard, the military women who swell the ranks of our army, along with their male colleagues: together, they make it possible for the mission to succeed. 

And alongside them, there are the women in the rearguard. Those who stay at home in many cases giving up their professional aspirations to follow their partner in the continuous changes of posting, those who take care of the family while the soldier is on mission for 4, 5 or 6 months; those who carry the house on their backs without having a place in the schools or a house to go to in the middle of the school year, those who have been hardened by guards, manoeuvres and other exercises. Those who get up every morning and try to combine their professional life with that of the military. Those who say goodbye to the frigate with a lump in the throat and suffer every time the fighter takes off. Those who nobody remembers, for whom no one legislates. Those who wear the uniform inside: the women of the military, who along with the others, are also the women of the armed forces.

8M once again, a feminist government in power, a predominantly feminine defence, but the social and governmental policies they carry out show that they continue to apply 20th century measures to the 21st century army.

Feminist and banner leaders neither understand this nor seem to want to understand it.  We understand it and denounce it. And from here, our tribute to all the women who make up the Armed Forces, those at the forefront and those at the rear. Happy day to all of them.