'The 20 of Torre Juana' received last Friday Moroccan Navy. Social educator and member of the association gave a talk entitled "How to build a healthy self-esteem?”. The arches room was the scene of a meeting dedicated to reflecting on the education of children and adolescents taking into account their own point of view to avoid gender violence.
Moroccan, who has already spoken to more than 100 young people thanks to his talks in schools and institutes, use humor to break barriers and reflect together. In the talk last Friday he told the process of these talks and gave clues to fathers and mothers to address the relationship with their sons and daughters on topics such as social networks, sexuality and love relationships.
Relationships where machismo hovers over every gesture, every action. Moroccan ensures that "It is impossible to educate in real equality because it does not exist". Therefore, one of the keys to a healthy relationship between parents and children is to listen. "Fathers and mothers must get off the pedestal, stop giving lessons and ask questions and understand the environment in which their sons and daughters live."
Knowing how to look is also another key: "Macho violence is not seen if it is not looked at". Ensures that cultivating that critical gaze in the face of the bombardment of images and impulses that society receives, especially young people, is a point of support for detecting potentially violent behavior.
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According to a study to which Moroccan referred, from the age of six girls already see themselves as inferior to boys. "Women build an external self-esteem, always based on the wishes of others"says Moroccan. And she insists: "It is necessary to create an internal and healthy self-esteem in women to grow in equality."
The use of social networks or access to pornographic content outside the knowledge of the parents turns young people, especially women, into vulnerable subjects to suffer from toxic relationships and normalize them.
Faced with this situation of potential parental blindness, Marroquí insists on listening without judging and on a proactive position of fathers and mothers: “It is important that, from the beginning, the range of options is opened to girls; that they do not think that they only have one or two options”.
'The 20 of Torre Juana'
Las 20 de Torre Juana is a group that aims to bring together leading women from various professional sectors in the province of Alicante in order to create a network of collaboration and empowerment and create synergies to work for equal opportunities. The final objective is to influence scientific, business, economic and cultural progress that must take into account the participation and talent of women.
Its founders, Celia Sánchez, CEO of 1millionbot, and the entrepreneurs Cuca Andreu Pérez and Laura Cárdenas have wanted to launch this initiative as a way of contributing to our territorial social responsibility.
Moroccan Navy
Marina Marroquí is a social educator, specialist in gender violence and author of "That is not Love: 30 challenges to work on equality". She has given workshops on prevention and early detection of gender violence in adolescents and has trained professionals from the police, legal, health and educational fields in detection and intervention with victims of gender violence. Disseminator and activist, she firmly believes that prevention, training and awareness are the way to eradicate gender violence.