Women? To be praised, but they are not victims

Dear Feltri Director,initially I thought I was reading a news item from Lercio.it or one of the many fake news items flooding the web. And yet it’s true. It seems that the Holy …

Women? To be praised, but they are not victims


Dear Feltri Director,
initially I thought I was reading a news item from Lercio.it or one of the many fake news items flooding the web. And yet it’s true. It seems that the Holy Father has published a book entitled You are unique to celebrate the “feminine genius” and, reading some passages, they would seem to be taken more from a book by Fabio Volo or Federico Moccia than from that of a pontiff! I admit that I am horrified that the current Holy Father makes every effort to amaze the world with these unspiritual outings. Bergoglio doesn’t seem to realize in the slightest that for 12 years he has held the role that represents the vicar of Jesus Christ on earth!
Alice Donati-Rigon

Dear Alice,
I think you are a little too severe towards the pontiff, believing it is necessary for him to adapt to a stereotyped, institutional, rigid role, which does not include the natural and spontaneous expression of the uniqueness and character of each individual who also finds himself to represent, as you point out, the vicar of Jesus Christ on this planet. At the end of the day, Francis did not do anything intolerable, scandalous, inappropriate or offensive. The simplicity of his book, the immediacy with which it is read and assimilated, the fact that it is accessible to anyone do not make the work, if it can be called that, vulgar. I believe that being simple is a gift, an added value. The book You are unique, written by Bergoglio and whose cover is such a fluorescent pink that you would need sunglasses, is an essay that praises the female figure, which, according to the Pope, is made up of a head, heart and also hands, that is, the woman thinks, loves and also does. And you will rightly object: “And did we need the Pope to remind us of this?”. True, it is obvious, which is almost embarrassing to reiterate, but the fact that a pontiff dedicates a book to women listing what, in his opinion, are the seven fundamental talents of the female gender is something that has never happened before, a a notable fact also because the Church has always put man in the foreground, although Jesus can be considered the first feminist in history, someone who becomes the defender and friend of a prostitute, who defends her dignity, can only be considered a revolutionary in this context, even more so if we place this behavior in the context of the era in which Christ lived.

In his book the Pope highlights the value of the female presence in the family, in society, in the workplace, as a sower of peace, harmony and cohesion. I would have added that women’s contribution is also essential in politics, as demonstrated by the good government of Giorgia Meloni, who has achieved what her predecessors, all male, were unable to achieve during decades in power. Women have a more prudent, more rational, more balanced way of managing public affairs, public resources, in the exclusive pursuit of the good of citizens and also of the Nation. I have always exalted the skill of women in journalism, I have always given space to female signatures when I came across talent, which has no gender. I realize that women have a superior sensitivity which sometimes, when used well, makes writing extraordinarily powerful.

I like the authority of the pope’s book that is attributed to the gentle sex, I just don’t agree with the more or less veiled indictment that it contains against society and perhaps even men, guilty of not recognizing those seven talents that the pontiff highlights. And here the bad, brute and insensitive male is always brought up, who takes something away from her.

I don’t agree, I believe, in fact, that ours is no longer a patriarchal society, in which those who are female are subjugated, underestimated, underestimated. Nor do I believe that males are enemies of females, far from it. Perhaps in this Bergoglio has slipped into prejudice, into political correctness, into a dominant vision resulting from a profoundly left-wing ideological construction. I don’t fit here either, dear Alice.

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It is good to praise women, but let us not continue to propose them as perennial victims to whom we dedicate essays based on the fact that they are creatures to be safeguarded and patronized.

In short, we can’t stand this story anymore.