"¿Es la nueva novia de hija about Berlusconi?" asks a middle-aged gentleman reporter, eager to find the mysterious couple who have declared Il Cavaliere, as proof that does not sleep with underage prostitutes. "I wish it were," replies the man. A girl in their early twenties and a man of 74. Not exactly what a parent would dream for her daughter. But in Italy, sometimes, the natural desires, that a daughter to study, find a good job, grow up healthy, fall in love, be happy ...- go wrong in a perverse way.
The Milan prosecutor's investigation to Berlusconi on charges of aggravated child prostitution and abuse of power over an official has revealed the female stereotype Belpaese: slender women with well-placed curves, Louis Vuitton bags as big as suitcases, sunglasses that cover half his face. "They think that success is. I think it is what they have seen and heard, is what we intend the example of power, its television and its leaders," says Gregory Concita , director of the leftist daily L'Unità .
With trash TV Mediaset sexist jokes with the public statements and used as an instrument of electoral consensus, with private conduct peppered with scandal, Silvio Berlusconi is behind a denigration and trivialized the image of the woman who has become hostage. And, in recent times, has managed to shake the movement of people who say enough is enough A nursery groups and women's associations has been planted and has launched a rescue everyday, away from the cameras, which set back the debate on gender identity in the center of today.
"Maybe in the form smaller, but also in other countries, advertising becomes a woman on the product. The problem is that in Italy the policy itself is marketing. There is another model, or outer or values \u200b\u200b"considers Michela Marzano, a professor of ethics at the University of Paris René Descartes, author of IRS e stai bella Zitta (Be pretty and shut up). "Aesthetics has moralized: build your identity, your social position, on your physique, you can succeed only if you're attractive, you're a body stilled, complacent, alleged that molds to male fantasies. "policy and serves as the television.
This casting continuous not worth much preparation, skills, hours of study, scholarships, somersaults to arrive to pick up the kids, making purchase and deliver a report at work. "Women are not elected and awarded according to merit, but other factors that have little to do with the professionalism, commitment, intelligence, "protests Giulia Bongiorno , lawyer, mother, chairman of the Judiciary Committee in Congress, a letter to the La Repubblica . It's something that stressed Sofia Ventura analyst Fare Futuro (Web-magazine close to Gianfranco Fini right) when in 2009 he released his j'accuse to politics and his habit of choosing veline (dancers) to important positions: "The instrumental use of the female body denotes a lack of respect for those who have earned a place with their skills and work," he wrote.
"The new generations have been poisoned by the coming of television. Meanwhile, with the same aesthetic and moral framework policy was made, "says Lorella Zanardo, author of the documentary women's body , national broadcast channels, 20 minutes of bodies almost naked women as mere objects of desire. "It is an ideal tax approved. Someone is considered beautiful if it is equal to the other, if plastic. Surgery guarantees access to success, "Tommaso Ariemme gloss, a professor of aesthetics at Lecce and Perugia and trialist Against false beauty.
Buried under the plastic woman, displaying her swollen mouth wields as a master's diploma or certificate of knowledge of a foreign language, the Italian meat and bone costing mark their guidelines. It costs that the policy meets your needs and costs in the corporate culture, one learns to treat it fairly.
In Italy, one of every two women work outside the home and have fewer children than in the rest of Europe (1.3 compared to 1.51 on average), because you have to wait years for that employment is stable. And when the first baby arrives, one in three must leave office. No day care, so just keep working man who earns more.
The 2008 Eurobarometer and other indicators give more arguments for the priority in this country of sexist stereotypes. The Italians, says the European survey, would feel less comfortable with a prime minister. And according to World Values \u200b\u200bSurvey , 80% of the population thinks that the child suffers if mother works while the child is not going to school. But there is another significant factor. In Italy, the world leader in the feminist struggles of the seventies, newspapers, news programs, and citizens are still talking about "moving passion" in the crimes of male violence.
"There are institutional and cultural problems: we have 20 years without serious political reconciliation and equality and effective people do not accept emancipation, at home and at work," says Daniela Delboca , an economist at the University of Turin, who advised Cabinets center.
The data portray the Italian work and family situation it seems an old painting. "The female employment rate is 46% (according to Istat, the Italian INE), said Paola Prophet, professor at Bocconi University. In Spain is 55%." We are the last in Europe, only Malta makes it worse " . This figure rose to ninety, was stabilized with the new millennium in the past two years has declined, women not only do not enter the labor market, but coming out of it. However, they are more educated than men as accurate prophet. "Of every 100 young people finished the race, 60 are girls." But it is something that is not reflected in managerial positions. "Among the listed companies [stock market], only 5% have a female member on the boards , in Congress and the Senate reached a low 20%, in Spain is 36% and 28% respectively, and of the 24 ministries, five are held by women
[Youth, Tourism, Environment, Gender and Education]. "In pregnancy, 27% of women leave their careers, because neither the 13 % of babies go to daycare. The social state delegates to the family. They work closely with the grandparents. "The country is paralyzed because it excludes half the world's citizens work. If you bridge the gender gap, Italian GDP would increase by 22%, "summarizes Delboca, an expert in gender economics.
The image of a woman undergoing the man of power, hostage to the appearance ephemeral and superficial values, stifles real women. The girls who prostituted themselves prosecutors said the Milanese mansion Il Cavaliere have settled their claims of equality so : use your body rather than his head. The other woman, the flesh and blood, not seen, although at the supermarket on the desk of the university, in line at the cinema. The policy will be forget it, in the account is a ghost, advertising a chimera. But there. In this low-budget soap opera is unworthy, go to network, encourage debate, raise your head and stretch your back.
Mortification of the dignity of women, more poignant legacy of Berlusconi is still the engine of a new collective participation. A transverse band of women and also men, put back on the table, gender identity, endeavors to provide an alternative. In recent months many groups have been born. They meet in theaters provided on the night of weekly close in independent bookstores are filled within minutes. They are women who combine home, work and children, who throw their requests in blogs and Facebook. Seem conspiratorial, engaged in a clandestine project warping. But they are simply citizens who do not comply.
"We got together for a common confusion: the country has ceased to interpret and represent. No we believe in nothing, "says Renata Pepicelli Filomena group , born in Rome last year and half." There are no policies for women and, moreover, it is projected unidirectional image, infamous. We thought it was necessary to give visibility to real women. The components of Filomena, students, teachers, journalists, independent of different ages and political-cultural origin, have released a video manifesto: "Many women contribute to the country's history and give a high profile. Each day write stories of dignity and hope, but remain in the shade. Here are a few: Rita Levi Montalcini, Nobel Prize, Tina Anselmi, political, Elsa Morante, writer, Emily, to care for my elderly mother has left her daughter in the Philippines, Maria, who had to quit her job because the nursery was face ...". A long list of names, famous and unknown, "to say that there is another side. We must teach young people, "said Pepicelli.
pursued in the network requests. The impression is that Ruby heartthrob is the last straw in a glass already full. The deputies and voters of the Democratic Party ( main opposition center-left) calling for the resignation of Prime minister. The same appeal comes from groups of Milan, Turin, Naples, Bologna, where collective Donnepensanti has launched his campaign.
The gallery director L'Unità achieved and 37,000 accessions. 15,000 have shared in a few hours article Bongiorno, elected deputy in the party premier (Now with Fini). Something cracked up in solid ranks of Berlusconi's People of Freedom. Sara Giudice , 25, a district councilor for Milan since 2006, collecting signatures for "a more ethical party leadership." The independent Corps Women has become a phenomenon. The author does not stop cross the peninsula to public debates and meetings.
"Women's health monitor country, "muses Professor Prophet, who founded another group, Pari or Shoot , pressing the government to approve women's quota law that is in the Parliament. Actresses and faces of the show, but not only, gave birth to Di Nuovo : "In Italy there is no gender equality. As we see girls who are lined by wiggling your thighs, ordinary women working, caring for children, the elderly, home: we are exhausted, "says Cristina Comencini, director film, screenwriter and author. According to Istat, Italy a woman works 80 minutes a man every day. In Spain, 54.
"The men also discussed the use of the female body. And not to support women, but because we are offended at first person," says Stefano Ciccone, founder Plural of Maschile (masculine plural), which has groups in major cities and organizes workshops in schools. If the image of it is trampled, it's the same to him: forced macho, homophobic, frivolous, always, with any age and relationship status, flirty and sexually hungry.
The documentary Sisters of Italy , in which Swiss journalists Vito Lorenzo Robbiani Buccella and interviewing 101 women from Milan to Bari, exemplified this scheme in his boot, two girls from Arcore, the town outside Milan where Berlusconi has his mansion have I found it on a Saturday Later in the mall. "He comes, we squeeze their hands, smiles and says, 'Hey, beautiful,' and he leaves."
"What happened to the man? Really aspires to a silent partner?" I dream of a sexuality that is not configured as a power relation, but as an encounter of desire freed from another person " says Ciccone. "The moralistic reaction is what bothers me most," he continues. "It says, 'everyone wants a young girl, generous breast, when the call comes running, or rather, I bring home the friends, without wasting time on processions. We all like it in the background . I do not do these things because I can not (and then I'm a rolling stone) or because I'm good (controlled). "
Ciccone paraphrases reasoning circulating in mid-afternoon television, in reports of street newspapers and in the cafeteria around the corner. "We sell this code as a result of freedom and inhibition, but to me it rings false, tax, gives me a great sense of loneliness and sadness. Not all men seek an autistic sexuality. We also live trapped in a stereotype. I, and hundreds of thousands like me are not like that. "
I'm not like: a mantra, a verbal charm, estos dÃas que se repite en la boca de muchos Italianos. And italianas. LUCIA MAGI
