"Parent control implementation has been represented in two confronted positions within the debates, as X publications with the #pinparental hashtag are used frequently with other hashtags that give it a different ideological sense" explains UV’s Sociology and Social Anthropology department professor and Education Sociology and Gender Sociology expert Alicia Villar.
The study notices that political party Vox, that first proposed the parental control, is the main user of the #pinparental, as it is included in 74.66% of the main messages published by the subjects selected for the sample. Other entities that have used the hashtag are "organisations that have an obvious ideology and can be used as think tanks for certain parties" such as Hazte Oír, Abogados Cristianos or the Conferencia Episcopal Española, mentioned in the article from larger to smaller.
Influencers and notorious people with similar political alignment and media outlets have also helped the #pinparental to spread and to gain public attention: Spain’s Partido Popular previous leader Pablo Casado, member of the European Parliament Alvise Pérez and the Vox party. With a different mindset, politician Irene Montero and @igualdadlgbt have also contributed on its spreading. Alvise Perez’s message, according to 2022 information and aproximately since X suspended his account is: "Muslim children can avoid certain syllabus, criticise ’offensive’ terms as ’ham’ or order a ’halal menu’ at the school canteens... but Spanish people want a #PinParental to avoid that mad leftists alien to the school indoctrinate our children and it is a ’scandal’.
As another conclusion, Villar and Venegas highlight that the five key concepts of the anti-gender discourse-indoctrination, freedom, equality, gender ideology and sexual education-, "have allowed us to identify meaning changes, a frequent strategy employed by far right organisations and discourses, who take over terms and watchwords associated with contrary political positions and that spread quickly through the new digital culture techniques, as the remix or manipulation of slogans and images.
In the analysis of X messages, once called tweets, it has been made a selection of 241 that come from both identifiable and anonymous accounts. The extraction was made by the qualitative software ATLAS.ti 8, which is widely used in the qualitative data analysis and that allows to import X’s data. The period of time of the messages analysed for this study is between 4 September 2018 and 31 January 2020, and the number of followers of the accounts was updated on November 2023.
Villar-Aguilés, A., & Venegas, M. (2024). El discurso anti-género en educación en España: Un análisis del #pinparental. Revista Prisma Social, (46), 359’384 . Retrieved from https://revistaprismasocial.es/article/view/5388