For the past few days in Portugal, social media and the media in general have been seething over a court decision that reads like a throwback to the 19th century, or as a pronouncement from one of those countries where women enjoy the social status of a cow or a table. But we’re talking about a court in a democratic, European, 21st-century country like Portugal, where the Constitution enshrined equality for men and women 40 years ago. This is a country …
Tag: domestic violence
It’s incredible how old stories keep creeping back into our memories. Today we were having New Year’s lunch with my boyfriend Nuno and his family, and his sister in law Cristina remembered that, as a young wife, she had very strong views about men who were abusive and hit their wives. She was laughing as she told us that, back then, when she imagined what she would do if one day her husband hit her, she had decided she would …
