Male chauvinism at Big Brother Vip: why you should never turn a blind eye
The edition of Big Brother Vip 2020 has just begun but several things have already happened that immediately ignited the hearts of the public and the web.
From the "entry into the house of the almost 80-year-old actor Fabio Testi who commented on the choice of the women of the house to eliminate him with the" unfortunate phrase "they were afraid of being raped" but he was then relegated to the hovel, so there is no mention of disqualification. And how to be surprised in a country where 1 out of 5 Italians think that a woman should only stay at home to look after her husband?
To be disqualified, however, was Salvo Veneziano, a Sicilian competitor of the first edition of Big Brother who took the chair in front of his worthy friends (Patrick, Sergio and Pasquale all from the early 2000s) to give lessons of "compliments "seriously violent and male chauvinists.
Referring to two younger competitors Salvo said he wanted to "tear their skin and break their spine with slaps " and that with the skimpy clothes they were wearing he saw "the" gut as well. "And down laughter, pats on the back and great moments of shared sexism.
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Because all this is intolerable
Television, even if it seeks to provide entertainment and not information, is a very powerful medium.
The fact that certain characters and a certain type of comedy were nice 20 years ago does not mean that they are tolerable today, in a climate of total fight against discrimination and above all violence.
What does it mean that Salvo saw Paola di Benedetto's "short dress intestine"? That the fact that she was dressed in a sensual way authorizes him to express all his animal comments on television and laugh happily with his friends, thinking he will go unpunished? He thought he was paying a compliment. Just like those men who follow us on the street and shout "compliments" from the windows of their cars.
Do we still want to get the message across that if a girl wears a short skirt, she is the one provoking? That "if he goes looking for"?
We just have to feel sorry for Salvo's wife who not only witnessed the pitiful scene but also tried to justify her husband with a clumsy "in Sicily, men express themselves like this" offending even an entire region.
All the other champions remain in the house who laughed rudely at Salvo's jokes, let's hope that at least they have understood the hint: no type of violence is tolerable.
