AND passed November 25th and the topic of violence against women ends for a while. At least until the next sensational femicidethe one who can fill the newspaper reports that prefer young victims and murderers “with the face of the good guy”. They are the ones who most attract internet clicks, after all a woman is killed every three days and there will be no shortage of material for a little indignation during the day.
Then March 8th will arrive and more generic chatter will start again. In the meantime we will hear government declarations stating that this is not a cultural issue and therefore there is no need for prevention through education to respect.
And we will have to settle for a security approach alone, perhaps with new generation electronic bracelets. Some will sadly state that the oppression of men over women is a natural fact, imprinted in our DNA, and we will have to wait for the creation of a revolutionary vaccine to eradicate it.
Serena Dandini (photo by Gianmarco Chieregato).
In short, patriarchy as a complex of deep-rooted, and always unfounded, social and cultural prejudices does not exist, but is only an ideological invention by die-hard feminists in bad faith. And we will continue to argue, wasting more precious time.
Luckily a book comes to our aid, Never again is it yours: how to break the roots of patriarchy and male violence (Mondadori), which I would suggest reading to those who have few and very confused ideas.
“Never again what is yours: how to break the roots of patriarchy and male violence” by Ilaria Ramoni and Fabio Roia (Mondadori).
They wrote it Fabio Roiamagistrate and currently President of the Court of Milan, and lawyer and legal expert Ilaria Ramonitwo exceptional authors who know the subject well through long experience in the field and for this very reason are not afraid to state that “gender violence is absolutely a cultural fact, with criminal implications, which draws its origins and its perpetuation precisely from the patriarchal society in which we live, and from every area of it”.
The parallel with the mafia is strong, a truth that they document with sadly true arguments. «The patriarchal subculture and the patriarchal mafia subculture are much closer than we want to admit…» and just as we can put an end to the mafia as Falcone stated, so we can set in motion that long and tiring process to free ourselves from that culture of oppression with which our society is imbued.
A clear, urgent and competent book which in this moment of alternative and bad faith truths is more necessary than ever.
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