The Ally by Iván Repila

Author:Iván Repila [Repila, Iván]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Other Press
Published: 2022-12-13T00:00:00+00:00

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PHALLIC STATE has an adversary.

It doesn’t seem to be as solid of a group, but it’s very large and very active. Its appearance has provoked an emergency meeting at Hugo’s house.

“They’re such pussies,” he jokes.

It began as an online platform to support the feminist collectives that Garbo and his group were attacking. It quickly went viral and gained all sorts of support, moving from passive resistance to direct action, and from the cyberworld to the physical one. Until yesterday, the new group’s biggest achievement was guaranteeing the proper functioning of a series of roundtables and conferences, protecting the centers where they were scheduled, with groups guarding them in eight-hour shifts, starting the day before, with surveillance protocols at the entrances. Of course, Phallic State was thwarted from acting: there were women everywhere.

However, last night the group moved to direct attack.

It was a premeditated assault on several fronts. They hacked the websites and a large number of the fake identities that the group was using to promote itself on social media networks. Throughout the Internet, they planted offensive videos against the patriarchy, feminist jokes, calls to revolution, and death threats against Phallic State. They drew penises inside bull’s-eyes on almost every street in the center of the city. Various squads, holding torches, their identities protected by burnt Disney Princess masks, threw stained tampons from cars at people standing in line to get into various fashionable bars. According to reports of those affected, the tampons were not stained with paint. Finally, the group published a manifesto declaring war on the heteropatriarchal system, warning of its ability to operate in various cities at the same time and demanding an unconditional general surrender to avoid an escalation of violence. The surrender or support should be demonstrated by flags or light-colored sheets with the letter W—for Women—and the letter M—for Mujeres—written in red. As a signature, the banners should read: “We take back the night and the day.”

“They’re all talk and no trousers,” says Donovan. “On Saturday they’ll be too busy putting on makeup and they’ll have forgotten all about us. I know women: they heat up quickly, but then they cool down.”

Garbo wasn’t so sure.

“And what if they’re serious?”

“What do you mean by ‘serious’?” asks Ramos. “Are they going to beat us up? Kill us? Ooh, I’m scared. Shaking in my boots. A bunch of bitches armed with tampons and nail polish, the army of darkness.”

“I can take out four of them with one blow,” says Bruno.

Aguirre doesn’t interject. Garbo calls him out.

“What do you think?”

The altar boy takes off his glasses, cleans them with a handkerchief, and puts them back on, slowly.

“I think they are servants of Satan.”

Murmuring. Complaints. Hugo makes the sign of the cross. Aguirre keeps talking.

“Our actions have not been those of just men. We’ve lied, robbed, insulted, and humiliated, going against God’s laws. It is true that we’ve done it for a noble cause, in accordance with the divine word, and that soldiers are forced to make difficult decisions, when the ends justify them.

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