Tawdry Testosterone Compact
It's the hot blood coursing through the veins of Italian men. A Latin-American verity, that Italian men are simply taken with the charms of women. And they spare no effort to impart to women how much their curvaceous attractiveness appeals to their manly predilections for noticing the public display of beautiful women and girls. Hooting, whistling, calling after the women and girls; it is a compliment that any Italian man offers free of charge to the young and the nubile.Women need not be embarrassed. It is, after all, an unmistakable and sincere acknowledgement of their beauteous appeal.
But women in Italy are appalled, they are furious, they are even incredulous that their country's prime minister, an 82-year-old boisterous cradle-robber has merrily thwarted the law of the land to satisfy his priapic egocentricity. Making of their country an international jackanapes, flaunting his twisted insistence that women (and girls) are mad for him, and prepared to bed with him because he is simply irresistible.
His immense wealth, prestige, power and authority are merely incidental to those who succumb to his irresistible masculine allure, expressed in the charitable dispensation of lire.
There is a revolution happening. All eyes, ears, cameras, note-taking of the news media are on Egypt, where a protest against unemployment and the rising cost of living against a sclerotic regime riveted attention. While a protest of equal numbers and dimension is being ignored. Women in their tens of thousands, outraged by the frenetic antics of an elderly man whose libido cannot be restrained, are shouting "Enough!"
The protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square were impressive, but this protest is taking place in central Rome, in Piazza del Popolo, and one organizer has claimed, just as the organizers of the Egyptian revolution did, that a million people were taking part, including men and children. "We're here to say that Italian women are not all like Berlusconi's prostitutes. It's a horrible image that we're giving. We've become a joke in the rest of the world."
Solidarity protests for the Egyptian revolution? Yes, they're taking place all over the world. You haven't noticed? In sympathy for the women of Italy, protests are taking place in Brussels, Lisbon and Tokyo; Lyon and Toulouse as well. Clever, eye-catching, media-aware posters? They were there, too: "We are not for sale", and "You have to leave now", and "100 percent Italian, 0 percent Berlusconian".
It is traditional male misogyny in Italian society that these Italian women lament and protest so vociferously. Hello out there, World, are you watching?
Labels: Security, Sexism, Social-Cultural Deviations, That's Life
posted by Pieface @ Monday, February 14, 2011
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