In response to the article "Girl Friends the left, do not go to the streets against other women " - Interview Pia Azzaro Covre Angela on "The Others"
Dear Angela Azzaro, dear Pia Covre
because you think women should not go in the 13 square? Are you really sure you want to say to the Italian women "Do not go to the streets against other women," as the title of the interview with Pia Angela? Or rather wanted to say "Go into the square, but against Berlusconi, not against other women?" That is something very different!
I find this question because from what he says Covre Pia Angela Pia Azzaro seems to me to ask the second thing, not the first, and that the titling of the interview is simply wrong, and introduces a strained position that, in Pia's words, is not there.
Meanwhile, dear Angela Azzaro, in the call that launched the mobilization of February 13, there is a single word or phrase of condemnation for women who have gone to parties of Arcore. It 's just ridiculous to think that on our part can be re-proposed the division of women into two, the sacred and the whores, where one side are the virgins and their lawful wives, and the other being sex workers and all those women who want to choose freely according to their desire for their sexual partners. Division abolished the old feminism, hopefully forever. We called again just because those of us who are older are feminists for thirty years, and the younger ones are picking up the legacy.
In our appeal is solely a) condemns the Prime Minister for having stayed with a minor and with many other women of the age of his daughters, and he lied about it, and b) the phenomenon of women candidates elected and sometimes for political office are often not of his choosing on the basis of their expertise but according to their attractiveness and their willingness to exchange sex. And this condemnation has nothing to do with the condemnation of the exchange of sex for cash made between sex workers and their clients.
I do not judge the Moroccan girls and support the claims of sex workers. In exchange for political office, yes. Judge, and I scorn, that the feminist struggle that we have done for thirty years to play a greater role in democratic politics has been perverted and thwarted by the fact that the criterion of choice of some women in politics has been the attractiveness and sexual availability (more for the right to the left) and the loyalty of the leaders on the ropes (as has sometimes happened to the left, not only on the right). Women in politics must be able to be autonomous. As masterfully said Rosi Bindi, are not and should not be available.
We believe that democracy is a serious thing, and that the people elected to govern are not ordinary citizens, but to be honest, fair and competent. Berlusconi himself has widely taken advantage of this and there has distributed booklets myeloma in which he is painted as a family man, a patriarch and attentive. From recent events appears to be a pimp inveterate: and evidently ashamed of it, seeing that it is always presented as a good patriarch. We have nothing against sex workers, but against whoremongers you. I respect those who sell sexual services. Not who buy them, however, seems to me that only that takes advantage of the economic and social dominance of men.
go down to the streets on February 13 because for years I find it humiliating that are only or mainly men to choose who should represent women, and this was also done on the left, unfortunately. But come down to the streets primarily because it appears that the premier did these choices using as a parameter, for women, the beauty (and at least one case, probably a willingness to organize feasts). This is unfair competition without competent men and women who should govern Italy, and undermines democracy.
We are exploiting the parties 'male'? Maybe. Certainly will try to do so, So what? Parties that have been men are changing, more or less certain, but not the monolith of the past. And maybe some parties will recognize a bit more than before, however, the capacity that women prove to be a political entity capable of organizing themselves and defend themselves, their image, and capable of autonomous policy proposals. If we have no hope that sooner or later many men understand and accept many of the reasons and proposals of feminism, what hope do we have? To force him by force? Of us forever we are headed our and their theirs? Democracy must be declined for both sexes, this is our goal.
Elizabeth Addis
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