Tamara Falcó says on her Netflix reality show that “the Virgo is very important”. That his faith “fills a gap that has nothing to do with the material” because “instead of wanting to go out at night and have seven drinks, I wanted to stay at home and pray the rosary”. That her mother asked her “why she couldn’t do something normal” when she decided as an adult to be confirmed with 3,000 children. And he explains it as if he were a Martian when, according to 2021 CIS data, six out of ten Spaniards feel Catholic. So deviated, nothing; That’s still the norm.
Winds of reaction blow against the achievements of modern women. It won’t be an orchestrated conspiracy and it will appear depoliticized, but signs surround us urging us to return to our usual roles: subservient to a higher order, pious, obedient. The Marquise and her friends pray at a “macro rosary party” wearing Hermès cloaks and sell it to us as if it were the Monda. Haute couture is once again aestheticizing widows locked in mourning, and designers like Domenico Dolce are calling for a return to “the sacred, the family, the black”. The New York Times warns of the “terrible rise of reactionary elegance” and that “the hippest club in New York is the church”. Catholics who consider themselves rebellious and provocative.
In 1991, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Susan Faludi described in Reaction the grim picture that awaits us whenever we make tentative strides toward equality. And, what a coincidence, it always happens to highlight those backwards who feel like outcasts without being one, and defend a cure for misfortune through progress by clinging to a worn and aged rosary.
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