AND hard to criticize the dead. Yet I don’t find it outrageous that this is done. With Michela Murgia as with anyone else. Michela Murgia’s public death was a literary, sentimental but also political way of reclaiming her ideasto ask for more rights for love and more rights for death.
He had taken the criticisms into account. So it is wrong to attack those who disagree with her, or to blame those who have expressed condolences for her death for having previously opposed her. Michela Murgia was an irreducible. If you had lived in 19th century America, you would have been one of those tribal chiefs who couldn’t resign themselves to being shut up on reservations by the Yankees.
I didn’t agree with everything he said and wrote. I wasn’t convinced by his “fascistometer” (although there are more fascists and pro-fascists in Italy than I thought). Once, for example, we politely discussed the concept of care in Corrado Augias’ show, now conducted by Giorgio Zanchini.
To give another example, the linguistic battle over endings in my opinion risks distancing the feeling of ordinary people from the basic issues. On which, however, in substance, Michela Murgia was right. Italy remains a macho country. In some working environments, horribly masculine.
Too many Italian women have to suffer violence, blackmail, abuses, which sometimes mark their lives, sometimes poison them with small gestures too often unpunished. There is too much leniency for murderers, rapists, abusers, molesters. There is still too much unequal power balance in many companies. There is still discrimination against women who love other women.
And the fact that machismo is not exclusive to men, but is often transmitted from mothers to sons – “remain seated at the table, your sister gets up and clears the table” but also “the company goes to you who are the man ” – confirms that there is still much work to be done. That’s why what Michela Murgia said and wrote will remain.
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