Gino Cecchettin became the symbol of the fight against patriarchy. However, in his editorial published in Il Giornale on December 12, Vittorio Feltri questions his position of supposed authority when commenting on these issues. “It is quite embarrassing that the new symbol of the left in the fight against patriarchy (which does not exist) has chatter on the internet about sexual positions, his personal performances between sheets, thongs, hands in underwear and similar things. he did not deny that the profile, which was closed and removed, could be attributed to him. Therefore, as you say, we must assume that he was in fact the author of certain excessively crude jokes. Consider him a bad person. That’s why I consider it extreme, even unfair.” Then Feltri talks explicitly about terrorism. “Due to this terrorism in the use of certain terms – continues Feltri – we will end up inhibiting men who already fear using certain phrases, or certain nicknames or nouns. translates in a freezing of relations between men and women, in a kind of sterilization, of distance that is imposed between the sexes. The feeling of belonging and possession are not something irreconcilable in relation to the feeling of love, all the ‘others’. .
Until the final blow to those who cling to the empty stereotypes of the left. “Gino Cecchettin doesn’t strike me as an expert on feelings. But he is applauded and glorified for certain statements that no one dares to dispute, even though they are crazy nonsense. who can’t wait for someone to corroborate their ideological prejudices, their gender stereotypes, their schizophrenia of conformist thinking. Gino is perfect: he talks about patriarchy, without knowing anything about it, as he himself admits, he talks about sexist language, which he also seems not to have disdained in the past, he advises men to often say to their partners not “I love you”, but rather “I love you”, as if “I love you” were “a punch in the face”, repeats a series of trivialities that make us ask how a human being can constitute such a concentration of catchphrases. However, he embodies a model, the anti-patriarchal model, the positive model of masculinity, to be imitated, to be taken as an example. Even if we don’t understand why.
Source: IL Tempo
Emma Fitzgerald is an accomplished political journalist and author at The Nation View. With a background in political science and international relations, she has a deep understanding of the political landscape and the forces that shape it.
