Enthusiasm of 300 Adolescents for Feminism

Two weeks ago, I experienced firsthand the kind of feminism that inspires adolescents, including those with more significant special educational needs. At the end of the lecture and the intense debate, adolescents aged 10–14 came up to ask me for autographs and to express their beautiful words to me. I have no doubt whatsoever that a morning like this can be replicated in any context, as long as it is done based on the evidence that feminism belongs to all women, of any age and condition, and is not the monopoly of a few.

On December 4, 2025, the 6th Inter-school Meeting for the Prevention of Violence against Women was held at the University of Valencia. Three hundred young people between the ages of 10 and 14 filled the auditorium with hope, deep questions, and reflections that undoubtedly go far beyond the major hoaxes that children and adolescents hear every day about relationships and gender-based violence.

I shared the experience I lived as a victim of sexual harassment during my school years, and the scientific evidence that can save them from what happened to me had a strong impact on their thinking. There was a question-and-answer session lasting more than half an hour, in which very diverse students shared reflections and questions they wanted clarified, including students with special educational needs who explained the rules at their school through their communication device due to difficulties speaking. No barrier stopped the students from participating: there were questions about health consequences; the importance of friendship in overcoming violence; how they like to be treated; and specific questions about my case that they wanted to understand to know how to act or not in such situations.

However, time ran out, and many raised hands could not be taken, but the students’ curiosity and questions continued. For example, a student with a disability approached me an hour after the lecture to ask a very complex question about my case, telling me he wanted to know whether I am doing well now. According to his teacher, he had wanted to ask me ever since and finally did so. The young people attending were very happy that now there were movements like Me Too Schools International, creating educational settings free of violence worldwide.

The attending students had access to scientific evidence with social impact that prevents violence. As an example, when I asked whether it was true or false that “if it’s a five-minute relationship, nothing happens, there are no negative consequences,” the room unanimously said, “False!” If we surveyed adults on the street, I doubt many would guess that statement is false. Being clear about this is a powerful vaccine that prevents the worst relationships.

Afterward, all the students were divided into groups to take part in Dialogic Feminist Gatherings, where they read scientific evidence with social impact to prevent violence in relationships, specifically regarding pressure to engage in disdainflu hookups. Students spoke from the language of desire about violent people, calling them “parasites.” And even though they did not know one another, they waited silently for more than a minute while a classmate with special educational needs struggled to share the idea she had chosen—without grimaces, without disdain.

These kinds of events and actions, with such positive results for students, as good as they are, do not interest the gutter journalists; what interests them is destroying them. They do not succeed and will not succeed. The enthusiasm in the room and afterward cannot be stopped, no matter how many lies they invent.