Lidia Cirillo
The events related to Rubygate can be commented on by various viewing angles. Franca D'Agostini, philosopher of science, has done even from the standpoint of logos, analyzing the pseudo-reasoning and argumentation procedures of Berlusconi's defenders, journalists on its payroll book or persons whom he elevated to the senior ranks of institutions.
Here, however, true is worth reflecting on some aspects of the relationship between government discussion and opposition and that the sexual adventures of the Prime Minister opened in feminism.
E 'became clear that Berlusconi is an awkward figure for the same people who supported him and have received benefits from its management of political power. A leader who does not feed a climate of total warfare, not compromise with justice, with a modest life and private life with a less folk to the rest of the world, would certainly be preferable for economic elites of this country.
not now but has always been the preference of the holders of wealth should be something like a liberal right, in a context of formal democracy and the mediation of Public servants available to retire after serving their contribution to the exploitation and extortion of surplus labor. This aspiration is carried out only in exceptional cases, but never in times of crisis, because it does not solve the fundamental problem of consent. In short, as long as Berlusconi guarantees, even in its own way, the employers will want or can hardly get rid of him. Marcegaglia explained well the social position of his party, when Fabio Fazio a request for an entertainment program in television he said: a new prime minister, but only after the elections, that is, only after checking the alignment of the consensus that each collects .
Because it is difficult that the Prime Minister is easy to throw in the towel and instead has decided to sell life dearly, his life or death depend on the uncertain step of the next general election, in which he will have better cards to play than its rivals first by the use of media. This is not to risk a reckless policy of prophecy immortality Berlusconi, who could eventually be overwhelmed by his impudence and imprudence. This is not to forget what seems to have removed the parliamentary opposition, namely that there is a condition sine qua non to replace one government with another, at least until a formal democracy continues to exist. The logic of
speeches and initiatives of the largest opposition party is reduced today to denounce the government and its head because, in another matter entirely busy, not engaged with proper zeal for reforms vital and urgent for Italy. The quality of the so-called reforms are nothing says, but the agreement with Confindustria and the willingness to accept Tremonti as the new prime minister left no doubt as to their nature. In other words, if words have meaning, what the PD asks is ultimately more effective in further dispossession of wage labor and reduction of bone welfare residue.
If the operation of the PD went really well, that is, if the second act of a devastating crisis was managed by a kind of unity government with the opposition and Berlusconi's crypto-fascist right, with tools of mass communication almost regime, then likely that the Berlusconi government is not the worst can happen to those with power relations and this left. is not the only reason it would not be wise to sign the petition Conchita De Gregorio, head of the Unit, not only because it is part of an unfortunate political project. The appeal is aimed at women of the left and right, rich and poor, North and South will witness together because there are other women apart from those line up for the bunga-bunga and because together we say "Enough." It 'obvious that the goal is to propose another femininity, other than the one built from the imagination of kapo with Berlusconi in high heels and girls entered in a job-seeker of the exchange between sex and money. The downside is that the stigma eventually hit its last wheel of the cart, that is, the girls bought to brighten the evenings of the elderly millionaire. He's right
Pia Covre the Committee on the Rights of Prostitutes, when he denounced that young women listen to how people are informed of the facts have been used and exposed in the media and that if it went to some bene, altre ne sono uscite umiliate e ferite. E si deve darle ragione anche quando si chiede se può essere considerata una vera vittoria sfrattare il premier perché è scivolato sulla prostituzione, mentre ci sarebbero ragioni sociali, politiche e di democrazia per mandarlo a casa. La campagna dell'opposizione non può essere condivisa nei suoi obiettivi e nelle sue modalità anche per un'altra ragione, cioè per l'ondata di moralismo ipocrita che la caratterizza. Come altro si potrebbe definire l'accoglienza calorosa riservata alle parole del cardinal Bertone e l'uso strumentale delle inquietudini del mondo cattolico?
Ora, sia chiaro, sarebbe del tutto legittimo che un'opposizione did also leverage on the vicissitudes of Rubygate. I do not know if someone / a has never written a book on the role of the scandal in history, but it is known that the scandals are indebted to two great revolutions, those of 1789 and 1917. The scandal can fulfill its function of revealing ingenuous popular opinion that the gods are not gods, that things happen in the Castle who violate the rules of the Castle itself and they are therefore arbitrary and partial. The debt, however, has always been slight and, like all and everyone knows, these revolutions are then go beyond that.
What is the scandal has already been said. It is true that at home you can do what you want, even at home you can not commit crimes and the use of child prostitution is a crime. It is not true that these issues are only private because the premier place people in institutions, women and men who have made the services required by him. It 's true, rather than an individual with a pipe so relaxed you then champion of the most reactionary Catholic morality, promises a law against prostitution, it shall approve another prohibiting the analysis of pre-implantation embryos in assisted reproductive technology It resists even the slightest recognition of the right to be lesbian, gay and trans, the celebrated family day ...
The discussion on the topic in feminism is not the case began today with Ruby. The use of women's bodies in the media and the changes of the kind that produces the imaginary Berlusconi talking for some time. The legitimate dislike moralistic opposition and the political logic that has characterized the product here and there, in the most radical of the movement, totally inadequate response. Or too benevolent towards the Prime Minister: everyone is free to do what he wants at home, the left replicates the ancestral condemnation of sex, which is rather a natural activity etc.. Or comments belongs to whoever pulls out melee: are things that men do not concern us, we refuse to adapt to the ways and timing of the policy, rules and partisan allegiances of ' television audience and so on.
Overall, however, the debate on this issue has been far more rich and fertile than elsewhere and pour cause. It 'clear to many that not only with the latter case, but with all his personal history, with its way of conceiving the presence of women in politics and the television images that owns or controls, Berlusconi has used one of technical specifications of the consent of the modern right. Why is not the modern liberal right but that post, that is what is to deal with more pressing problems of consensus and solves them with propaganda, repression, and the construction of scapegoats, in different ratios between their amount depending on the context.
E 'unlikely that the transaction is aware, the realization comes from the fact that Berlusconi is the incarnation and now pathetic caricature of the common sense of the majority of Italian men. In addition, his being a parvenu policy deprives him of mediation skills, simulation and dissimulation of his political craft. Berlusconi is simply a liar in the most crude and infantile period.
The technique of consensus is to bring to light, disseminate and legitimize what lies at the bottom of society, beliefs and relationships to be more archaic. The use of anti-politician, for example, derived from the fact that it was still very much alive in the most uneducated working classes. And the finding was realized in the simple form of the amount of applause, which rallies every attack on the Jews aroused. Someone wrote that when you talk to brewery in politics, then the civilization and democracy are in danger. So when the imagination of the average Italian male becomes entertainment and culture, then resumed under the most archaic stereotypes about femininity. The problem is not those who put themselves in line for the bunga-bunga, often poor in search of an income that is not found elsewhere and point to the merciless public scorn. Nor is that of girlfriends and maitresses the premier institutions. Sgarbi as an intellectual, which lends itself to yell and insult in defense of his master's underwear, is more repellent Carfagna helpless.
The issue is that gender is constructed by the media and also images of women that they carry. Of course, "there are other women," as the appeal of De Gregorio, but other women have always existed because the genre has always little to do with real women, but it still represents a burden of prejudices and stereotypes that oppresses.
Among the comments these days are moving in the lists in newspapers and online sail worth a mention, that of feminist Blog Medea "a group of women in politics in the territory in Turin." The text recalls the films of Pasolini's "Salò or the 120 Days of Sodom", inspired by the homonymous novel by the Marquis De Sade, shot in the seventies and quickly disappeared from circulation. Set between 1944 and 1945,
Gad Lerner, in an episode of the infidel has taken the comparison, but the television medium does not lend itself to sophisticated speech and the combination appeared to an unacceptable forcing, which does not justify perhaps explains the procedure and the insults of the President of the Council.
final consideration. The feminism of the radical and antagonistic movement has missed an opportunity. He has rightly criticized the protests inspired by the logic of the appeal of Conchita De Gregorio, but has not made or other proposals. Yet that was not a matter that the opposition between women and decent and there was plenty of Permal. You could, can, in opposition to the myth of the man who loves women - the chick said Sgarbi, replacing part in everything - the head of the government which has launched, erased and refused always logical laws that make women's lives more difficult, precarious and unjust.
