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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Sam Jones in Madrid

‘It’s really crude’: concern over mix of misogyny and Franco nostalgia among Spanish teens

A man takes a photo of a 'ninot' depicting the former dictator Francisco Franco
A man takes a photo of a ‘ninot’ depicting the former dictator Francisco Franco, during the Fallas festival in Valencia. Photograph: Eva Manez/Reuters

Three or four years ago, the Spanish psychologist Jesús Moreno began to notice a difference in the drawings that the young participants in his workshops on masculinity produced when asked to sketch out their idea of what a man looks like.

The figures they drew were no longer merely the muscular and bizarrely well-endowed drug dealers, etched with prison tattoos and surrounded by guns, knives, cars, sex workers and bundles of cash, to which Moreno and his colleagues had long grown accustomed.

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