Until 1981 the law was in force in Italy “honour killing” which greatly reduced the punishment of the angry man for having caught his wife, daughter or sister in carnal intercourse. This memory helps to understand a distorted mentality that has lasted for centuries and still has unacceptable expressions. The woman felt, perhaps rhetorically sung, as a mother, wife, sister, but profoundly considered an instrument for the fulfillment of man: we know that this is often still the case.
The murder of many women, wives or companions, goes back to a sense of possession, to a concept of domination that transforms the person into an object. This attitude must be countered by all means.
This is where it comes from the configuration of feminicide as a crime of a particular physiognomy and gravity. The violent deprivation of another’s life is always the most serious of acts and crimes; Certain it was not meant to say that a woman’s life is worth more in itself than that of a man or a child. But there is a historical reason, a reality of customs and mentality that led us to face the tragic effects.
It is a shame that General Vannacci is wasting our time on a path that we must travel together. It’s a miserable rumor just trying to get attention.
We respond calmly to topics, rather than hurling anathemas or crying “wolf”. We are perfectly able to distinguish those who have something important to say to the country from those who chatter, as they say, because they have their tongues in their mouths.
Hadrian Sansa
