Today and in the past days I have thought a lot about the phrase that a well-known TV presenter said at the press conference to present who would have joined him in Sanremo 2020. To hear a professional say, a man who will present the Italian song festival on a channel national, that women are great women if they are able to be with great men because they have to be always a step behind them, not only it is anti-feminist and discriminating but I think it is only the preamble for the situation in this Country called Italy getting worse and worse.
I was born in this country 36 years ago and thanks to the struggles of women like me I have seen public opinion and ordinary people change ahead of me with the various laws enacted including that on abortion. Women have been given more and more opportunities to demonstrate who they were and how much they were worth for how much more complicated it was than simplicity for men. I have seen the country change and allow the so-called "social lift", therefore to extend to the rights earned by women and the rights of the less well-off to improve themselves and of the very gifted and talented people to be able to establish themselves socially thanks to their skills. Well, it has taken years to gain these possibilities, many more than they are going through to take away all these gained possibilities and nobody does anything, including politics. No woman rebels when told to stay in her place or when any person does her slightest physical or psychological violence and does not do so because she knows she is not protected.
On the threshold of my 23 years, when I should have seen the efforts of previous generations bear fruit, unfortunately I was able to savor only the opposite both in the community that was supposed to protect me and at a working level. I was told without being able to argue that the job I was interviewing was not for me, that compared to a woman they preferred to hire a man, I had to be asked if I was going to start a family because the company could not afford to hire a woman who could only have thought she was a mother. I also had to be told that I would have been yet another failure because a woman who chooses "engineering" as her study path is destined to be such. Women are NOT ABLE to be engineers, they told me. Well how to blame these people if on a national TV the secondary nature of being a woman is exalted. So many battles against gender violence to see women on TV who are said to be without even blinking next to those who say that they are nullity. Well I think this turnaround started when I was about 15 years old.
I believe men feel their authority and masculinity threatened if a woman proves more capable than they are and if a woman earns more than they do just as the few rich in turn feel the threat of losing that wealth that makes them "powerful" , as if having power at the expense of human dignity is the meaning of life.
They all forget the past, to justify their personal needs. They all forget it so fast to say, as in these days that SHOAH never existed. Well I am not a judge but I analyze what I see and see a world in ruins, families that raise children and young people by teaching them male chauvinism and discrimination. I see a company that increasingly in reverse trend compared to the past makes laws for the protection of women but then condemns those who have suffered violence because they had jeans that were difficult to unbutton or a miniskirt or simply because they did not have to go through a dark alley to alone or a man because if you are able to suffer violations of some kind from a woman you are gay or less man than the others to say that "discrimination exists and must be fought" but at the same time that nobody wants to do it because it could create problems doing it. I have seen children die for this, parents suffer discrimination and have to be told by the community that if the daughter or son had been bullied or raped or had committed suicide for some reason related to cowardice suffered the fault was certainly the boy because he had not been able to defend himself or because he / she had provoked and therefore had to suffer the consequences of his actions without the possibility of appeal.
I know very well what I'm talking about right now because, unfortunately for me, I live in this society and I experience these changes. Like me, you are experiencing these changes too, my question is:
WHAT CAN WE DO TO CHANGE THIS COUNTERTEND AND RECOVER HOW MUCH OUR AVIERS LEAVE US INHERITANCE?
HOW CAN WE REBORN THE BOURGEOISIE?
HOW CAN WE PREVENT THE WORLD FROM GOING DOWN IN AN APPARENTLY NATURAL WAY?
Although I know that probably no one will answer me, I still ask these questions, you never know in the future someone can read these words and want to do something ...
If we do nothing and stand still and watch the world change and we don't stop this way of thinking, we will be like the next migrants we don't want to welcome anymore, in our own country. Think about it.
Good evening to all.
