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writing again, which has brought her so men alike: "What a ridiculous thing to be
much satisfaction (and money). Because, fighting all the time! Rather, we need each
for those who do not remember, almost other because we have a common enemy:
twenty years ago (in 2004) she turned her the damn patriarchy, which has harmed
book Los caballeros las prefieren brutas and repressed all of us. For us, it has re-
into a bestseller, which she later adapted pressed our rights. For men, the right to
first into a stand-up format and then, of express their feelings, the right to be vul-
course, into a television series. nerable and to think of their partner as a
Her new essay, like the previous ones, complement and not as an impediment.
has a suggestive name. Or rather, mischie- And that's where I am: reliving our his-
vous, as she defines herself: Revivamos tory. Or rather, our hysteria, to talk about
nuestra histeria, published by Grijalbo. A women and be able to really empower
And the first thing book that, she swears, was born almost by ourselves, but from information".
chance.
And all in a humorous way. Because
she did was to look "It's just that it has happened like Miriam Isabel Santodomingo -her real
up the meanings of everything in my life: nothing is plan- name- remembers that, like every ba-
rranquillero and every costeño, she is a
ned. It turns out that I came back from
the word hysteria, the United States, where I thought I was zzzlittle bit outspoken. And she has what
which is the most going to make my life, and then I arrived it takes. "Like most families, mine is espe-
in Colombia to organize my things, and
cially dysfunctional and manages a black
popular insult for suddenly someone proposed to me: 'Do humor, acid and so horrible that if you do
women and also for you want to write a book?' And what I not have the hard leather, you would have
said was: 'No thanks, I've been isolated
to save for therapy," she argues.
men, although it is long enough because of the pandemic and “Los caballeros las prefieren brutas
always associated now what I want is to see people, to so- came up after a meeting I had with some
friends who I asked why they didn't go
cialize. I don't want to lock myself in an
with the feminine. apartment for four months to do research out with brilliant women, those who have
and spend another year writing. Thank exceptional careers. And they jokingly
you, but I don't want to," said Isabella San- answered me: 'It's just that they have too
todomingo, who responded. many opinions. The ideal woman is the
"Only then it occurred to me that, one who hasn't even graduated from high
because my first book Gentlemen Prefer school'. So I wanted to parody the myth
them Dumb is about to be 20 years old, I that blondes are bad at thinking. But with
suddenly said, 'I'm going to write the re- Revivamos nuestra histeria I wanted to
ply, because, the strangest thing, no one take a break and write a book for this ge-
replied that I was right. I'm going to write neration that would allow us to unders-
‘Ladies Prefer them Billionaires'. Not mi- tand each other as women.
llionaires, but billionaires. Because they The title, she points out, comes from
can't be baldies, now they have to be bi- a very famous television program in Co-
THE VOICE llionaires. It's just that when I started wri- lombia called Revivamos nuestra historia
OF FEMINIST CONSCIENCE ting I realized that femicides had skyroc- (Let's relive our history). And the first
Back to telenovelas? "Not a chance," keted during the pandemic, that we are thing she did was to look up the meanings
replies Colombian actress (from barran- still seeing the atrocities happening with of the word hysteria, which is the most
quilla, to add) Isabella Santodomin- the women of Juarez, that MeToo mar- popular insult for women and also for
go, who in the 1990s became one of the ches proliferated, that there was the issue men, although it is always associated with
queens of the genre in her country and of pussy hats and all that they mean, and the feminine.
much of Latin America thanks to titles the extreme radicalization of a faction of "I looked up synonyms and happe-
such as "Mamposina", "Eternamente Ma- feminism... Then I said, 'Hey, wait, I want ned to find over 500 terms, some more
nuela" and, above all, "Perro amor". to write something that corresponds to offensive than others. From "crazy" and ,
After all, she, who started her career this time.'" "ridiculous" to "overacting" and a number
in a journalistic magazine called Panora- Isabella Santodomingo confesses that of horrible things. But when I started to
ma, and later became the undisputed star she, who has always considered herself investigate where this word comes from,
of Colombian reality shows, is more than "extremely immature", came up with the I go back to ancient Greece and I find
aware of the multiple and diverse options idea that she could become "the voice of that Socrates, Plato and other all-knowing
she has at her fingertips. For her beauty. conscience". "And the truth is that I don't philosophers, because they also happened
For her irreverent and irreverent charac- know where that came from, but at this to be physicians, dared to baptize the fe-
ter. For her talent. moment in my life, now that I've crossed male uterus as "hystera"; and hence hys-
In 2020, for example, she had no trou- the threshold of 50, and I've sort of lan- terectomy means "removal of the uterus".
ble winning over the public during the ded, I wanted to write this book that sum- But you ask any woman about this and
second season of Masterchef celebrity, in marizes what I've always thought about nobody has any idea. And now I know
which she was undoubtedly one of the fa- the damn battle of the sexes. And what I that insult has not much to do with that
vorites. And in 2022, she agreed to take up intend to say to the world, to men and wo- surgical procedure either. But it turns out

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