Mercedes VBertomeu

De todo un poco

[SubRosa )✿( Magick @subrosamagick.bsky.social @SubRosaMagick]

She was 57 years old.
White hair. No carefully managed image. No media training designed to make her more palatable. Just thirty years of accumulated knowledge and the calm, unhurried authority of a woman who had spent her life mastering her subject.
She sat on a BBC panel, answered questions about immigration and politics, cited evidence, made arguments — and then went home.
The next morning, her inbox looked like a crime scene.
Her name is Mary Beard — Cambridge professor, classicist, one of the most respected scholars of ancient Rome and Western civilisation alive. And the internet had decided that a woman speaking with quiet authority on television needed to be punished for it.
The messages were not criticism. They were not debate. They were rape threats. Death threats. Coordinated campaigns of personal destruction targeting her appearance, her age, her voice — anything that could be used to remind her that spaces like the one she had just occupied were not meant for her.
Most people would have gone quiet.
Mary Beard went further in.
She did what scholars do when they find a pattern that disturbs them: she followed it backward. Through decades. Through centuries. Through millennia. All the way back to some of the oldest texts in Western civilisation.
And she found it had always been there.
In Homer's Odyssey — one of the foundational works of Western literature, nearly three thousand years old — there is a scene that most readers pass over without registering its quiet violence. Penelope comes downstairs and asks the poet to sing a different song. Her own son, Telemachus, cuts her off. He orders her back to her room and tells her plainly: speech is the business of men.
She goes.
Mary Beard read that scene and recognized it immediately.
Not as ancient history. As a pattern.
In ancient Rome, women who dared to speak in public were not described as orators or thinkers. They were described as noise — disorderly sound, something that did not deserve to be called language or argument. Their voices were not speech. Their thoughts were not thoughts.
In the medieval world, women who claimed public authority were labeled as witches.
Elizabeth I — Queen of England, ruler of a nation — had to rhetorically reshape herself into something masculine just to be taken seriously as the leader of her own country.
The silencing of women who speak with authority was not invented by social media. It was not a modern pathology or a cultural accident. It was built deliberately, over centuries, into the very foundations of how Western civilisation defined who gets to speak, what authority sounds like, and who is allowed to take up space in public life.
Mary Beard had found something important.
In 2017, she published Women & Power: A Manifesto — short enough to read in an afternoon, substantial enough to reframe everything you thought you understood about why this keeps happening.
Her argument was precise and devastating.
The problem is not that women lack the ability to lead. The problem is that the model of leadership itself — the template for what public authority looks, sounds, and feels like — was built by men over centuries and has never been redesigned. When a woman enters public life and doesn't fit that template, she is not failing. The template was never built for her. It was built specifically to exclude her, and it has been doing exactly that, efficiently and continuously, for three thousand years.
The solution, Beard argued, is not to teach women to perform power the way men have always performed it. The solution is to dismantle and rebuild the very concept of what power is allowed to look like.
She kept teaching. She kept writing. She kept appearing on television — white-haired, unhurried, carrying her decades of authority without performing it, without packaging it for comfort, without apologizing for it.
The threats continued.
But other messages began arriving too. Letters from women and girls who had spent their entire lives feeling that every door was slightly too narrow, every table slightly too high, every room slightly reluctant to make space for them. Women who had spent years wondering what was wrong with them — why they couldn't quite fit, couldn't quite belong, couldn't quite be taken seriously no matter how much they knew or how hard they worked.
They read the book and understood, perhaps for the first time, that nothing had ever been wrong with them.
The room had been designed without them in mind.
That is not a personal failing.
That is a three-thousand-year-old architectural decision.
And one Cambridge professor with white hair and a calm voice — who refused to go quiet when the internet told her to — spent her career documenting it, naming it, and handing that knowledge to everyone who needed to hear it.
Telemachus told Penelope that speech was the business of men.
He was wrong then.
He is still wrong now.
And Mary Beard has three thousand years of evidence to prove it.
via The Inspireist

#FeministFriday #HERstory

[Mercedes VBertomeu @mvbertomeu]

@phluisma @GorettiSRei @xanduro @PC_Compostela @Xunta @OurenseConcello Videos para rrss, folletos e uns videos nas pantallas do sergas, estacions...

[Mercedes VBertomeu @mvbertomeu]

Como molaría algun video e flyer con recomendacións, uns planiños cos sitios públicos onde parar a descansar ao fresco, algunha canle wasap para avisos... @GorettiSRei @xanduro @PC_Compostela

[David Lombao @DavidLombao]

O risco da calor para a saúde pon máis de 80 concellos en alerta
https://t.co/RCZgJh8ug1

[David Lombao @DavidLombao]

O calendario escolar 26-27 vai ser oficial o luns. En @prazapublica xa o tedes ordenado visualmente a partir do avance que fixo Educación
https://t.co/gSNtV7U7RE

[Julen Bollain @JulenBollain]

La Asamblea Nacional francesa acaba de votar a favor de la nacionalización de ArcelorMittal. No es aún ley. Pero el mensaje político es enorme.

Hablamos de uno de los mayores grupos siderúrgicos del mundo, que ha recibido apoyo público millonario —850 millones para la descarbonización— mientras anunciaba que iba a eliminar 636 empleos en Francia y dejaba en el aire el futuro de miles de trabajadores.

El acero no es una mercancía cualquiera. Es empleo, transición ecológica, capacidad industrial y soberanía.

Si el dinero público sostiene sectores estratégicos, la democracia también debe poder decidir sobre ellos. Tomemos ejemplo.

[Mercedes VBertomeu @mvbertomeu]

@copesantiago Os hoteleros non teñen ollos na cara? Hai moooita xente, de sobra. O que hai que ver é porque non quedan.
Prezos abusivos, oferta escasa de atractivos, saturacion nalguns momentos...
Xa esta ben! Poñamos a atención onde debe estar.

[Mercedes VBertomeu @mvbertomeu]

@phluisma @GorettiSRei @xanduro @PC_Compostela @Xunta @OurenseConcello Bueno, en realidade, un pequeno video xa nos valeria para ir tirando.

[Andréi Kononov @KononovAndr]

Ahí lo tienen, para qué disimular ya.

[Mobility Behaviour 👨‍🎓 @davidlois_uned]

Vivir en barrios caminables se asocia con menor mortalidad, y el mayor efecto protector se observa en los grupos con menor nivel socioeconómico. Estudio con dos millones de personas a lo largo de 15 años.

[Mercedes VBertomeu @mvbertomeu]

Principal obstaculo, o concello

[El Correo Gallego @elcorreogallego]

Despídese a comisión do Castiñeiriño: 'Marchamos coa satisfacción de ter conseguido o campo da festa' https://t.co/PubcErWuVC

[La Voz de Santiago @vozdesantiago]

💢 La Asociación Cultural de San Pedro reprocha al Concello de #Compostela ( @PazodeRaxoi ) falta de apoyo a las fiestas

[Mercedes VBertomeu @mvbertomeu]

Onde está o punto de enerxía eléctrica do proxecto de Concheiros? A preinstalación, en teoría, está feita @GorettiSRei
Que cansado é ter q pelexar polo básico! A seguridade non debe depender de ter cartos e o Concello debe apoiar e non dar por saco 😞
https://t.co/TI6EaLbGuV

[Mercedes VBertomeu @mvbertomeu]

@AlejandroCence2 O cuando diluvia.
No sé para que estaba aquello de las Smartcities porque para aplicar la inteligencia y hacer la vida mas facil en la ciudad, no.

[Mercedes VBertomeu @mvbertomeu]

A liña 6 chega petada ao Venecia, baixa xente e sube moita mais. Moitos guiris aloxados ao longo do camiño francés, tm xente que ven da intermodal e vai aos barrios do norte. E logo, a xente de sempre.
Amontonados.
Esta liña precisa reforzo alomenos nalgúns horarios @xanduro

[Zugasti @irezugasti]

🇮🇪Sobre los pogromos en Belfast:

👉 Cualquiera que conozca la ciudad sabe bien qué zonas son esas y la división política que existe en Belfast y sus barrios obreros
👉 NO son revueltas patrióticas irlandesas. La mayoría de los escuadristas fascistas que están quemando familias en sus casas son los unionistas británicos de extrema derecha🇬🇧. Algunos ya se han identificado con nombre y apellido. Colonos, en mi opinión.
👉 Estos movimientos son los mismos que hacían pogromos contra católicos hace medio siglo, los que asesinaban en la calle durante The Troubles, amparados por ejército y policía ocupante inglesa
👉El republicanismo, el nacionalismo irlandés siempre se ha alineado con el antirracismo y el anticolonialismo. Solo hay que leer a sus referentes. Todo experimento rojipardo o nacionalchovinista contemporáneo es una desviación ideológica que traiciona esos principios. Y no me refiero solo a 🇮🇪 .

[Mercedes VBertomeu @mvbertomeu]

@Capitalgalicia @GorettiSRei @avaxuntanza @DominguezXesus @bngcompostela @MiriamFLouzao @compostelaberta @xanduro @maria_rzs Si, estaba ben sabelo. Porque polo de agora todo son excusas.
Eso si, pagamos arranxos e mantementos de campos de festa, locais e sitios varios en todo o concello. En San Pedro non hai nada diso e tampouco hai compensación.
Vergoñento, a verdade

[Mercedes VBertomeu @mvbertomeu]

Non podedes imaxinar o frustrante que é traballar altruistamente por un barrio e pola cidade e ter que facelo contra os elementos.
En Santiago, principalmente contra a administración municipal. Iso si, todas oposicións e gobernos veñen á foto. 😞 @GorettiSRei @avaxuntanza

[Mercedes VBertomeu @mvbertomeu]

@elcorreogallego Que güevos ese PP gallego que prolongó la concesion de la AP9.

[A.V. A Xuntanza @avaxuntanza]

Que isto suceda ano tras ano... fala do escaso compromiso da administración municipal (esta, a anterior, a outra...) con todo o que e veña da veciñanza e dea algún traballo.
Tremendo.
Nos sabemos disto: liorta anual para obter a area, punto de luz e valados para a Cacharelan

[Mercedes VBertomeu @mvbertomeu]

@veganibalecter A mi lo que me flipa en este tema es que nadie discute los muchos dias libres (justificados, ojo) de bomberos o pilotos.

[Mercedes VBertomeu @mvbertomeu]

@dinisss Pois debería.