Catherine Deneuve and the letter a The world pro male seduction
Dacia Maraini (86) does not give up on her yesteryear feminism and yesterday published another editorial on the Corriere della Sera with the significant title “The ancient privileges of the male role”. It seems to be back in the middle of ’68 with the processions of angry feminists who marched to the cry: “Tremble tremble the witches are back” and threw their clogs at the “even”.
The writer who was the unmarried companion of Alberto Moravia – contrary to Elsa Morante and Carmen Llera – he has his own theorem which he pursues with (little) lucid determination:
“By now we can say it: the gradual and important increase in female autonomy (access to traditionally male professions, claim to manage one’s body, willingness to express creativity regardless of family obligations, refusal of the condition of servitude, etc.) corresponds a progressive increase in male violence. Of course it has nothing to do with gender difference, but it is a matter of pure culture. There are men who, when a woman who is considered property says no, or says I’m leaving, enter such an existential crisis that they need to kill to calm their rage for domination.
So for the Maraini man would be sort of Neanderthalperpetually with club in hand, ready to beat his partner at the first opportunity and this because the woman has occupied his work spaces and in society.
Apart from that this narration does not take into account the “masculine” which exist -albeit to a lesser extent- but the point is that this divisive vision is precisely the basis of gender-based violence, which is always regrettable and which must be fought but intelligently.
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