Italy has feminists, why have they been so quiet?
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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been caught up in a number of sex scandals, but for a long time, Italian women have been largely silent about his behavior. That changed earlier this month when Berlusconi made a remark about an opposition politician's lack of good looks.Berlusconi's comment unleashed a wave of anger among Italian women. Tens of thousands have signed a petition that says "this man offends us — stop him."
Here is a sampling of Berlusconi quips: Women are "God's most beautiful gift to men." In order to prevent rape, "we would need as many soldiers as there are beautiful Italian women."
Berlusconi, 73, boasts of the good looks of his party's young female members of parliament, dismissing the opposition ranks as menopausal.
In September, the prime minister informed a gathering of journalists that he had never paid for sex.
"For those who love to conquer, the joy and the most beautiful satisfaction is in the conquest. If you have to pay, what joy is there?" he told them.
Berlusconi's sex scandals came to light when his wife announced she was divorcing him. The prime minister, she said, is a man who consorts with minors.
Later, numerous young women, including a call girl, said they had attended parties at Berlusconi's home.
But in a country where women made massive political gains during the 1970s, there was little or no female protest about the prime minister's womanizing.
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AntwortenLöschenDoesn't he look great for 73?
Is he THAT old? Heck yeah, he looks good for his age. I guess chasing after women half his age helps keep him looking young...
AntwortenLöschenlol I do know who you are talking about.. Is it Animalcaramel ?
AntwortenLöschenwaiting for her "loveable" replies... *grin*
lol.. Morgan Freeman recently get married at the age of 72.. seems like Berlusconi having inspiration from Morgan Freeman.
AntwortenLöschenYeah, Morgan married his step-daughter... that's just gross. Though, Berlusconi chasing after minors is just as disgusting, if not more so.
AntwortenLöschenOMG gross ... Berlusconi sumulating sex with female cop on car ....
AntwortenLöschenassault assault
100,000 Italian women protest Berlusconi
AntwortenLöschenControversial premier’s remark ignites petition, adds to list of sex scandals
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33434174/ns/world_news-europe/
.. and long overdue ladies ... get going
wtf?
AntwortenLöschenThat video, was he bloody drunk?
I have only seen some of Boris Yeltsin doing shit like that
Wow @ that video.
AntwortenLöschenThat could have very welled derailed the ambitions of any U.S. president. Why has Berlusconi gotten away with these kinds of antics?
Is THAT all?
AntwortenLöschenThe entire country should protest.
wait till Animal caramel gets home , she will tell us
AntwortenLöschenOMG played the video again and was shocked all over again .. if he did that to me I would have him charged with at least lewd behaviour
well, us Europeanses is all Pinko Commie leftists dontchaknow
AntwortenLöschenand a few womanizers too.
AntwortenLöschenI am still waiting for Animalcaramel's reply :D
AntwortenLöschenBTW, how's that ? :D
*Shaking my head*
AntwortenLöschenThe more I learn about this guy, the less I like him.
Actually that kind of protest is a good thing but it's far from being enough; and honestly I'm pretty tired of that stuff - it's since I was a teen ager I've been going to some protest-day; I'm not saying I don't partecipate in that when I can, but it's another kind of "protest" that I love and I and other Italians think/feel this country need.
AntwortenLöschenlets rip him to shreds .... I am offended for all the Italian Women who are not speaking up ...
AntwortenLöschen( goes off and pukes in the bathroom at the thought of him with no clothes on )
he he he
well not evereything about Italy .... that would take forever .. but about the women and the sexist idiot & his antics :)
AntwortenLöschenwe want to know why women are letting him away with this ....the sexism , the offensive behaviour and insults to women ...
why they are complicit by their silence . There are so many strong Italian Women .....
There's not complete silence; there should be much more noise but during every single day, not just during the day of a protest.
AntwortenLöschenFew days ago a student was asked sex by her teacher to get good votes at her exam and at her graduation exam. She said "yes" to the professor and gave him a date. But then she asked TV to go there during the date. Like it?
Wow... I'm glad she documented it.
AntwortenLöschenIn the pic, the woman behind berlusconi is Mariastella Gelmini, the Italian minister of, ta-dah!, education... *BIGH SIGH*
AntwortenLöschenhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeNDRg32BfQ&feature=channel
(translation: And therefore, after the unique teacher, I propose the unique TV cannel that gives unique information, so that we can create in short – and I ca)n assure you, we are very close to that – a more reassuring unique opinion.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2onx6eOBps
In the pic, the woman behind berlusconi is Mariastella Gelmini, the Italian minister of, ta-dah!, education... *BIGH SIGH*
AntwortenLöschenhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeNDRg32BfQ&feature=channel
(translation: And therefore, after the unique teacher, I propose the unique TV cannel that gives unique information, so that we can create in short – and I ca)n assure you, we are very close to that – a more reassuring unique opinion.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2onx6eOBps
enjoy
AntwortenLöschenhttp://geopolitics.multiply.com/notes/item/34
he is the plastic surgeons favorite customer lol
AntwortenLöschensooner that man gets locked up ... the better :)
AntwortenLöschen1. Indro Montanelli was an Italian journalist and historian, known for his new approach to writing history in books such as History of the Greeks and History of Rome. (…) Montanelli continued his career at the Corriere della Sera newspaper in Milan, famously authoring deeply sympathetic articles from Hungary, during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. In 1973, together with Enzo Bettiza, he founded and directed the Milan daily Il Giornale.
AntwortenLöschenWhen Silvio Berlusconi, the proprietor of Il Giornale, entered politics and founded a new right-wing party Forza Italia, Montanelli came under heavy pressure to switch his editorial line to a position favourable to Berlusconi. Montanelli never hid his bad opinion of Berlusconi: "He lies as he eats", the journalist declared. In the end, protesting his independence, he founded a new daily, for which he resurrected the name La Voce ("The Voice"), which had belonged to an historical newspaper run by Giuseppe Prezzolini. La Voce, always an elitist paper, folded after about a year, and Montanelli returned to Corriere della Sera.
From 1995 to 2001 he was the chief letters editor of Corriere della Sera, answering a letter a day on a page of the newspaper known as "La Stanza di Montanelli" ("Montanelli’s Room"). In spite of having been a renowned anti-Communist all his life, Montanelli spent his last years vigorously opposing Silvio Berlusconi’s politics.
Indro Montanelli about berlusconi: 1) “He’s the most sincere lier; he’s the first one believing his own lies”; 2) "he’s the best salesman in the world"; 3) "he’s allergic to the truth"; 4) "this is not the right; this is the night stick" (the night stick was used by fascists); 5) "berlusconism is the dregs coming up again";
2. One of Berlusconi's strongest critics in the media outside Italy is the British weekly The Economist, which is is nicknamed by berlusconi “The Ecommunist”. Aye, The Economist is a well-known bolshevick newspaper…