Antonella Baccaro (photo by Carlo Furgeri Gilbert)
H.or the impression that the American Supreme Court ruling which canceled the right to abortion in the States it did not receive the reaction it deserved in Italy.
Of course, we went to brush up on the 194 law which regulates the law in our country. Of course, we have found its limits in the widespread practice of conscientious objection.
But the alarm that must sound loud concerns all rights, even that of claiming them. The American ruling canceled in a second a prerogative that was believed to have been acquired, demonstrating how little it takes to plunge back into the Middle Ages.
A few columns ago, I raised the problem of current feminism who struggles to continue their battles, perhaps because they have become difficult to understand even to women.
As for menwhich, up to now, have largely remained silent, continuing to silently oppose the most important steps of our emancipation, their state of mind emerged clearly after the sentence that sentenced Amber Heard for calling herself baseless as a victim of abuse by ex-husband Johnny Depp.
Unsuspected cultured and liberal gentlemen, who we thought were allies in the struggles that matter, have elected that sentence as the flag of the counter-revolution, tweeting resentment and satisfaction.
I return stubbornly to this topic to reiterate that gentlemen certainly are wrong, but we too when we put our energies into residual battles that have found their culmination, halfway between the tragic and the ridiculous, in the “cancel culture”.
We digress while someone goes straight to blow up the very meaning of gender battles, watering down the gender issue. And we are divided on the themes of goat wool while the biggest assault on our rights is underway, which have always been denied in authoritarian countries, now canceled in states that we believed ahead.
“Submission”, the novel by Michel Houellebecq
It was 2015 when, commenting on the release of Submissionthe novel by Michel Houellebecq describing a world where our rights were denied by the takeover of a patriarchal culture, I ventured it was a workable prophecy. I saw the signs. And here we are. Time to wake up.
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