Feminism in Ibero-America is moving past its heyday of a decade ago, a time when being a feminist was marketed as part of popular rebel culture. There were feminist women, certainly, but also “feministos” — men inclined to subscribe to the ideology of agreeing with whatever feminists proposed.

Furthermore, gender-feminist ministries sprang up, feeding off Ibero-American states like Spain and Argentina. The fever swept from the Rio Grande to Patagonia.

I recall a visit to Mexico City in 2019; while somewhat lost in that vast, overwhelming capital, I stepped into a subway car, and a young woman began barking at me that I had to get off. At the next stop — once I was back on the platform — I noticed the car was painted pink and marked as being exclusively for women.

It turned out that, since 2002, the city’s metro system had included two such cars on every train — reserved solely for women and children under 12. In theory, this sex-based segregation was intended to protect female passengers from sexual harassment.

However, studies and personal accounts indicate a surge in reports of intolerance, friction, and violence among the female passengers themselves, alongside virtually no change in the rates of violence against women on public transport.

Those were the days when a Colombian feminist I met at a lunch in Stockholm kept telling everyone at the table that men were potential rapists. When I pointed out that this would include her boyfriend and her father, she flew into a rage and insisted that they were exceptions.

Those were times when, if you defended the Right to Life, a colleague might covertly call for your expulsion from the independent press. It made no difference if you had just had a baby and were the sole breadwinner, or if the political police were harassing you day in and day out. Those of us who withstood that gale — during which labels like “retrograde,” “counter-revolutionary,” and “fundamentalist” (what an honor!) were hurled at us — have witnessed several welcome changes in recent years.

For one thing, the word “feminism” has shifted from being a cultural force driven by “woke” ideology and the capital of tycoons like George Soros to becoming a tiresome concept for the average man and woman. It had become exhausting to constantly hear — in movies, political speeches, and classrooms — the same old spiel about “patriarchal oppression” in the West, all while there was silence regarding public lashings and acid attacks in other cultures.

In 2024, as part of his policy of austerity and state downsizing, Argentine President Javier Milei eliminated the Ministry of Women, Genders, and Diversity; the ministry had become the hub of a system of indoctrination and surveillance targeting causes that did not align with the Left.

What was the result? Data from the Argentine judiciary’s National Registry of Femicides confirmed a sustained decline. In 2025, the number of homicides of women classified as “femicides” fell by 12.3% compared to the previous year — marking a cumulative drop of 20% since Milei took office in December 2023 — thanks to the security policies implemented by the president.

“This progress was achieved without the need for a Ministry of Women or the massive spending on useless gender policies that, under previous administrations, only served to worsen the statistics,” the government stated.

Within the international feminist movement, the controversy surrounding so-called “Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists” (TERFs) has caused deep rifts in recent years. While one faction rejects the biological category of “woman” in favor of a cultural definition that includes men, another insists on sex as the foundation of the category. The paradox here descends into absurdity: hegemonic contemporary feminism treats men as potential aggressors simply for being men, yet accepts males who self-identify as “women.”

This internal contradiction continues to tear feminism apart, and the fallout is now reaching globalist agencies. According to a letter from 97 Ibero-American associations, Bibiana Aído — the current head of UN Women for Latin America — allegedly “defamed,” ideologically persecuted, and “unjustly” attacked Reem Alsalem, the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women.

Aído reportedly spearheaded a campaign against Alsalem because she did not align with the tenets of queer feminism. Furthermore, she allegedly suppressed the Rapporteur’s activities during visits to Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia, deeming them contrary to the pro-trans agenda; this demonstrates, according to the letter, “the shift of the UN Women agenda toward gender identity to the detriment of women’s rights.”

As with the case of the “pink carriages” in Mexico, global feminist organizations are not discredited by the terrible Western, heterosexual, white — and (horrors!) — Christian man, but rather by internal squabbles, the sheer weight of their own inefficiency, and reality itself.