2024-11-20 15:22:00
“Patriarchy no longer exists.This is essentially what the Italian Minister of Education, Giuseppe Valditara, explained to the Chamber of Deputies on Monday 18 November. In addition to his controversial statements, he couldn’t have picked a more inopportune time to talk about such a topic in this way.
Her video message was in fact broadcast during the presentation of the Giulia Cecchettin Foundation, named after the young woman who was stabbed to death by her ex-partner on 11 November 2023 and whose murder aroused emotion and anger throughout the community. According to him, the authoritarian rule of man over woman “It certainly ended with the family law reform of 1975, which replaced the family based on hierarchy with one based on equality.” If he then tried to explain that he was only speaking in the legal sense of the term, his statements deeply shocked Italy.
“The minister overlaps the legal and cultural issues, obviously ignoring that a law, however fair, is not enough to dismantle a system of devaluation which for centuries has represented the ecosystem in which patriarchy has imposed the predominance of the male over the use female