CI confess to staying perplexed by women, more or less famous, who read aloud the sexist insults they receive on the web. Of course, the shame does not lie with those who read them; it’s all about whoever wrote them. But wouldn’t it be better to ignore them?
I know, in the end we all fall for it a little. We can’t resist the temptation to read the comments. In my experience, the most livid are not normal people. Normal people use social media to express their opinions and emotions. The most resentful are the professionals, or rather the resentful, as Dagospia calls them: frustrated academics, failed journalists, writers without readers.
Of course, for a beautiful woman, for a woman who is a public figure, it is different: it does not arouse envy, but rather the “I would like but I can’t” of the frustrated male. And in fact it is full not so much of males who desire women, but of males who do not accept that a woman can exercise power over them. It’s a rearguard position, but it exists.
Aldo Cazzullo (photo by Carlo Furgeri Gilbert).
Soon we will no longer care whether the president or mayor is a man or a womanbut whether he is good and honest or not. But that day is not yet today. Yet I ask myself: why give space, visibility and importance to those who hate, offend and insult?
I remain convinced that the best measure to limit the phenomenon is to ban fake and anonymous profiles. It is too easy to offend, slander, threaten under a false name, or even steal another’s identity, speaking on behalf of another who doesn’t even know it.
If I spend two euros online, I have to give my credit card, make myself recognizable, “traceable”. The same should happen to those who open a profile to participate in the public discussion. I’m not saying that the insults would stop. But they would thin out. AND the frustrated people who insult would be recognizablewithout the need to read their rubbish aloud.
Do you want to share emotions, memories, reflections with us? Write to us at [email protected]
All articles by Aldo Cazzullo.