D'Urso: criticism for a sentence that would justify violence against women

Already in itself, the choice to interview a woman victim of violence - still in hospital - a few hours after the attack is rather questionable, but we know, the laws of the afternoon broadcasts of generalist TV are mysterious and incomprehensible and very often force us to attend some curtains of dubious taste - not to say trash - to which we are honestly no longer ready. herself, uttering phrases - very wrong - which risk justifying violence against women and conveying dangerous messages. The story concerns a young woman from Messina who miraculously escaped the assault by her boyfriend, who allegedly tried to set her on fire with petrol and a lighter; obviously the girl was hosted in Afternoon Five where, with bright tones and with a lot of furious quarrel with his mother, he tried to justify his partner in every way (yes, that's right!). And listen, listen, not only did the Neapolitan presenter not utter a word about the absurd dynamic that leads the victim to flatter his executioner, but she even increased the dose with a decidedly out of place phrase.

"Do you know that there are men who out of too much love or too much jealousy do things they don't want to do?".

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Unfortunately, there is no worse message to address to a purely female audience, moreover, which could feel authorized to misrepresent these words and justify a type of violent and possessive attitude as it is simply an intense and uncontrolled manifestation of passion. women victims of violence take the front line to sensitize public opinion and spread a conscious culture about the issue - Lucia Annibali in the first place - do we really still have to hear this kind of demeaning and harmful considerations? Honestly, we feel like saying no. Television is too powerful a medium to allow such misleading messages to be conveyed. Any form of violence cannot be associated with love in the least, and it is good that every woman keeps this consideration in mind and behaves accordingly, not justifying in any way any kind of lack of respect on the part of her man. Obviously the criticisms to the D "Urso and the questionable management of the affair were many: that of Selvaggia Lucarelli could not be missing, one of the very first to be indignant at the" happened, who, with the usual critical attitude, expressed his dissent, inviting the D " I urge to worry about the psychological health of the young woman rather than to exploit it in the name of listening.