“Hands off women's bodies”. This is the cry of feminists during the protests against the minister Eugenia Roccella to the States General of Natality. Making excuses of all kinds to justify the gag, the Taliban – assisted by the usual professional students of the marches but with few books open – babbled about abortion (as if it were still a crime in Italy) and self-determination, about Pro Life and education sexual. Protests that are anything but democratic, aimed at silencing the “adversary”, forgetting that freedom of speech is sacred, inviolable. But it is the news that forcefully brings out all the contradictions of the feminist world, attentive to trifles and silent, silent when it comes to protesting For who is it really fighting for their freedom. Like the Iranian women.
It is very easy to take to the streets to spout nonsense about patriarchy where it does not exist, while it seems more difficult or at least less convenient to protest against those regimes that consider women as an object to be manipulated. How many armchair feminists have demonstrated against the brutality suffered by Iranians? For all those young girls murdered in a cruel manner? Or for all those hanged at the end of trials that were anything but legal. Contesting Roccella is much more satisfying, perhaps. Or probably it's a question of visibility: many protesters have died of fame and a challenge to the right-wing minister guarantees the spotlight. Giving support to an important cause is obviously not. We would be ashamed, especially thinking about twentieth-century feminism…
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