«CDear Aldo, you don’t even know I exist. But today January 1, 2024 reading I Woman I loved it. Why few men speak so clearly about violence against women. I am of a certain age and I have undergone and seen many things. There needs to be greater sensitivity on the part of men on the subject. Everyone has a mother and many have a wife, a daughter, a sister. Just imagine what they do to other women is done to them… Martha.”
Criticism is always more useful than praise, and who helps me to do the letters page every day Corriere della Sera he knows he has to censor all the compliments (every now and then some come along).
This time I make an exception because Mrs. Martha’s letter struck me a lot. Many have arrived, after the column (n° 52/2023 of I Woman) in which I was referring to Daniela Ranieri’s article on Everyday occurrencewhere the writer retraced the injustices and harassment suffered throughout her life.
Aldo Cazzullo (photo by Carlo Furgeri Gilbert).
Not a drama, not a tragedy, but a series of large and small abuses, including the particularly heinous one of harassment on buses. Many women have written to me that they have suffered the same thing.
Apparently these are not sporadic cases; there are “men”, if we can call them that, who do it habitually; to the evidence because their moral baseness is not the object of social disapproval. Some readers also sympathized with the victims, although some found the idea of making the harassers off the bus by holding them by the ear excessive.
I, however, believe that only an immediate and, yes, virile response to harassment on buses can be effective. It’s not enough to be indignant when it’s your daughter’s or your girlfriend’s or your sister’s turn; we must do it always and in any case, even more so when it concerns women we don’t know.
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