For the International women's day, women bloggers invade the net asking their male colleagues to break men's silence on violence against women in all its forms. It's not a women's problem, it involves all.
It would be great if for once on this International Women’s Day things could be different.
It would be interesting to see our male colleagues, both columnists and bloggers, saying “I care”.
If they wrote: “violence towards women and femicide are my problem” and if they could reveal men’s inability to free themselves from the temptation to domineer.
Following the rape of a girl by three army men in L’Aquila, a reader, Claudio Losio, posted the following on the “The Women Body “ blog: “This bring us back 30 years, back to the documentary by Tina Lagostena Bassi on the trial for rape. The young student from L’Aquila is our daughter, we have to find a way to support and protect her”.
“I care”: I care as a man about the exploitation of women beauty in the media. It makes women fragile, confining them to a humiliating cliché’.
I care that both politics and the economy are controlled by old men who prevent any change from happening to protect their own gain.
I care for the lack of health, social and welfare services, which prevent women’s employment and development. I care for men’s excesses, which are detrimental to both women and men. .
I need to make a commitment for things to change. It would be great.
Women bloggers sharing this post regularly publish common threads, specifically on issues regarding public portrayals of women and their political representation.