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"Defending is not a matter of physical strength but of intelligence", this was one of the statements made by the mayor of Cartagena, Ana Belén Castejón, in the presentation of the 'Workshop of personal defense' for women, which are part of the I Day of Social Coexistence, organized by the councils of Equality and Sports, the Federation of Olympic Wrestling and Associated Disciplines of the Region of Murcia next to the Cartagena Marcial Club.
The details of this 'Workshop of personal defense' has been offered this Friday, June 15, the mayor and Councilor for Equality of the City of Cartagena, Ana Belén Castejón;
the president of the Federation of Olympic Wrestling and Associated Disciplines of the Region of Murcia, José María López Gullón;
and the president of the Cartagena Marcial Club, Miguel Ángel Vera Pérez.
The workshop is scheduled to take place on Saturday, June 23, at the Wiseell Central pavilion in Guimbarda.
The class is free, prior registration in this link.
The mayor has taken advantage of this presentation to make a reflection on the term 'weak sex' that the Royal Academy of the Spanish Language attributes to women with a pejorative and discriminatory sense.
Castejón has offered figures to dismantle this definition.
"For every 100 girls, 130 children are born, when they reach 20 there are only 98 men for every 100 women and after 65 years only 68 men survive for every 100 women, these data tell us that we are not women Weak sex. "
The mayor has also said that women know overcome difficulties and one of them are physical aggression, the purpose of which the City Council conducted this workshop that taught that "in an aggression, defend is not a matter of physical strength but also temperance and intelligence. "
The president of the Cartagena Marcial Club, Miguel Ángel Vera Pérez, has clarified that the course will not only teach women the physical aspect but also the psychological one.
For his part, the president of the Federation of Olympic Wrestling and Associated Disciplines of the Region of Murcia, José María López Gullón, has focused on the passivity of society in the face of aggressions against women in the street "it is important to create psychological bases and prevention is important but when the confrontation is over it is important to know in which way to work, for example, to cry out fire, instead of help, which is what will create alarm in the rest of the people who think that they can be burn the house. "
The workshop has 50 places of which there are already 32 registered will be held on Saturday, June 23, in the central pavilion of Wseell de Guimbarda The class is free, prior registration in this link.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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