Aldo Cazzullo (photo by Carlo Furgeri Gilbert).
TOSome readers (regarding my article Michela Murgia was wrong, but ultimately she was right released on n° 35 of I Woman) they ask me what discussion I had with Michela Murgia about the idea of treatmentin Corrado Augias’ broadcast on RaiTre now hosted by Giorgio Zanchini.
Michela contested that care should be the prerogative of women; but we absolutely agreed on this. However, there is something to add.
Women have always taken care. She gives life in all the worlds in which it can be given: by conceiving a child, giving birth to him, breastfeeding him, precisely by taking care of him.
It is clear that in some roles the woman is irreplaceable. It is equally clear that in other roles the care also falls to men.
Rightly in Spain the new law provides that parental leave is not a possibility but an obligation: dad is also called to do his part.
Today, however, women have left the private, family sphere. It has entered the public sphere. The woman makes decisions. She wields power. And care is a form of power; now with the pandemic and climate change we have understood (except for a few diehards) that the human species is not immortal, and it is up to us, men and women, to take care of it.
I see feminine care in many small things. A few months ago I visited a beautiful exhibition by Giuseppe Penone in the Aviary of the Borghese Gallery with the director, Francesca Cappelletti; someone had dropped a tissue on the floor, she bent down and picked it up. A small gesture certainly, but one of attention and respect.
The next morning I was at the Museum of Civilizations in Eur with the director Andrea Viliani; on the path there was a chair that was not aligned, the professor took it and put it back in the center of the wall.
My friend Ambra Nepi, who with her colleagues watches over the cathedral of Florence, the baptistery under restoration, the splendid new museum of the Opera del Duomo, fell in the mountains, was injured, found herself in those situations in which if they don’t help you you’re finished; others, however, took care of her.
Care always comes back, care even before beauty will save the world.
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