“Maybe we should be more protective in our dialogue and our vocabulary.
If you go dancing, you have every right to get drunk – there must be no misunderstanding and no stumble – but if you avoid getting drunk and passing out, maybe you also avoid running into certain problems because then the wolf will find him”.
The phrase by Andrea Giambruno, a journalist for Rete 4 and partner of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, pronounced yesterday during the episode of Diario del Giorno, unleashed social anger.
Giambruno, speaking about the cases of violence in Palermo and Naples and calling the rapists “beasts”, endorses the positions expressed by Pietro Senaldi – director of Libero and guest of the program – who, to avoid the “wolves” – against whom he also expresses a firm condemnation – suggests “first of all not to lose consciousness, to remain capable of understanding and wanting”.
Rapid – also thanks to an article in Il Fatto Quotidiano that reported the story – the reaction of the web that unleashed a real storm on Giambruno and his guests. Mostly unreportable, the comments are all condemnatory.
Politics also intervenes and does so with the Democratic Party senator Cecilia D'Elia, vice president of the commission of inquiry on Femicide: "They just can't help but blame women," she intervenes. "Violence is always a little their fault.
Don't go out alone, don't go where it's dark, don't dress provocatively. Now Giambruno explains it to us too: if you don't get drunk, they won't rape you. You have every right to get drunk but if you avoid doing so... And nothing, in the end they judge women and their lifestyles. It's not possible, it's no longer tolerable".
“It is a wrong conception – he adds – of respect and freedom of people. And an idea of education that goes exactly in the opposite direction to what is needed.
So I say to Giambruno that we need to educate boys to respect, not girls to prudence, teach them the value of consent, not girls that of distrust, but the right to a free existence and not submissive behavior. If a girl drinks a little she can expect a headache, not rape”.
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