Novelist Isabel Allende: Corona will end patriarchy

Renowned Chilean writer Isabel Allende said that the coronavirus pandemic has exposed blunt inequalities that are currently fueling protests in the US and around the world. She said it is up to the younger generations to build a post-Corona world based on gender and racial equality. “The pandemic is teaching us to look at our priorities and face our reality. It is teaching us that we are all one big family, and that what happens to one human being in Wuhan touches the entire planet and all of us (…). There are no walls that separate people,” Allende maintained. “The patriarchal system will come to an end. For these brutish men ruling the world will be drained and a new world will arise in which men and women equally share running the planet,” she added, concluding: “We should not let violence and greed rule the world, but solidarity, compassion and hope. This is the world that we crave for.”(An Nahar, June 10, 2020)