READ ALSO: One of our most popular stories of the year came in May, when the country announced it would across the country to people willing to transform them into tourist sites. There were also surprising archaeological discoveries, from to found by amateur archaeologists, to some in a cave. The 2017–18 season is the 116th season of competitive football in Italy. Dec 10, 2017 ITALIAN FOOD in FLORENCE is GREAT // What You Must Eat ITALY 2017 - Duration: 11:19. Kyle Le Dot Net 23,513 views. More Italy Italy (2017) images. Sep 13, 2017 - Serbia through to Semis after dismantling cold-shooting Italy. ISTANBUL (FIBA EuroBasket 2017) - Serbia will meet Russia in the Semi-Finals after a victory over a cold-shooting Italy. ![]() ![]() And in July, Italy got, after a year of not submitting any new bids to allow other countries to catch up. A few months later, Unesco also declared. SPORT We couldn't review 2017 without mentioning the World Cup that wasn't (sorry). In a humiliating play-off against Sweden, leading to tears, and. Frantic Italians more than any other news event and watched their beloved goalkeeper, Gianluigi Buffon, as it became clear that the Azzurri wouldn't be playing in the World Cup final matches for the first time in 60 years. Italy's football fans in mourning. Photo: Piero Cruciatti/AFP National football, meanwhile, battled with its long history of racism and anti-Semitism, as posted by fans of arch rivals Lazio exposed the prejudice that still dogs Italian sport. ![]() ![]() ![]() Concert Schedule - Italy. Italy, on July 21, 2017, to deliver a lecture on performing Mozart, a composer whose “mastery and power of expression. READ ALSO: But there were more positive role models, too, such as, who celebrated a new world champion title this year. Vio, who lost her legs and forearms to meningitis, says her motto is: 'Life is too good'. In some of Italy's sillier stories of 2017, a gelateria debuted,, and., the internet celebrated, and – of cowpats – opened in Emilia-Romagna. A dancing grandpa captured in a video that went viral in February. Credit: Alberto Forni with success, a celebrated his 96th birthday by jumping out of a plane, a became Europe's oldest living person, and to find out just why this country's people live so dang long. And, who after 2,000 years of exile was finally – finally – made a persona grata in Rome once more. Welcome home. Laura Boldrini, center, president of Italy’s lower house of Parliament, turned Montecitorio Palace into a women-only institution on a recent Saturday, seeking to emphasize how sexual harassment and abuse against women are often ignored in the country. Credit Gregorio Borgia/Associated Press ROME — The women took their seats behind each of the more than 600 desks in Italy’s lower house of Parliament and listened to, talk about how the “” had set off a worldwide reckoning with sexual harassment and misconduct. With one notable exception, that is. “In Italy, it certainly hasn’t had the same effect. In our country, there are no harassers,” Ms. Boldrini said sarcastically, drawing chuckles throughout the hall. In truth, Ms. Boldrini said, harassment was rife, but Italian women feared the repercussions of speaking up: “They know that in this country, there is a strong prejudice against them.” By turning Montecitorio Palace into a women-only institution on a recent Saturday, Ms. Boldrini hoped to emphasize how sexual harassment and abuse against women are often ignored by what she and many others consider a stubbornly patriarchal society. Advertisement Since the revelations about Harvey Weinstein’s abuse of women, politicians, actors and powerful media figures have resigned in disgrace in the United States, and women have flooded social media with their own stories of sexual harassment and assault,. In Italy, it’s mostly “meh.” “This historic moment doesn’t mean much to Italy, sadly,” said Asia Argento, an Italian actress whose accusations of sexual harassment against Mr. Weinstein drew signs of solidarity abroad but a good deal of eye-rolling and insults at home. “Nothing has changed.”. In Florence, defense lawyers for paramilitary police officers sought to ask the accusers that night. In Sicily, charges, determining that sophomoric humor, rather than sexual intent, had motivated his groping of colleagues. And the former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi is staging a comeback six years after being forced out of power amid mass protests and trials examining his role in so-called with underage women and prostitutes. “For us, defending women is a priority and it always has been,” Mr. Berlusconi, who was cleared of soliciting underage prostitutes but is still fighting charges that he bribed a witness, said in a recent television interview. That is not to suggest that the 81-year-old, whose girlfriend is nearly 50 years his junior, has changed his ways. In October, he told a crowd of supporters on the island of Ischia that he had introduced the bidet to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi and in so doing “.”. The audience applauded. “It’s not shocking, because in the end, Italians think it’s normal,” Lorella Zanardo, a women’s rights advocate and filmmaker, said of the muted reaction to reports of sexual harassment in the country. Especially in high-profile fields such as film, politics and the media, she said, “the idea of a woman advancing her career by giving or selling her body, it’s taken for granted.” Mr. Berlusconi himself has contributed to the country’s perception of women as decorative objects of desire, Ms. Zanardo said, by casting them as scantily clad adornments on his television channels. But she acknowledged that the popularity and durability of those shows over the last 40 years showed an eager audience among Italians, many of whom still think of women in archetypes of care-taking madonnas or corrupting Jezebels, with little room in between. Advertisement Perhaps nowhere has the view of sex as a transactional feature of Italian life been as stark as in the backlash against Ms. The daughter of Italy’s most famous director of horror movies, she describes living a nightmare since becoming one of the first women to make a public accusation against Mr. Weinstein, whom she said performed oral sex on her against her will. She says she is afraid to leave her house, and plans to flee the country in response to particularly virulent attacks in the news media. Alessandro Sallusti, the editor of the conservative daily Il Giornale, said on Italian television in October that Ms. Argento’s public accusations decades after the events took place amounted to her being an “accomplice.” (As he spoke,.) Photo. The Italian actress Asia Argento in Turin in November. She said she planned to flee the country after virulent attacks against her in the news media. Credit Massimiliano Ferraro/NurPhoto, via Getty Images Another right-wing paper repeatedly argued that Ms. Argento knowingly entered into a transactional relationship to further her career, and even people whom Ms. Argento might have expected to count among her allies instead cast doubt on her innocence. In, the transgender Italian actress and former member of Parliament blamed Ms. Argento for not “saying no” to Weinstein “as other actresses did,” and for failing to report the alleged assault at the time. Natalia Aspesi, a self-described feminist, said that Ms. Argento should not have been surprised by how things progressed after she agreed to give Mr. Weinstein a massage. In response, Ms. Argento has cast herself as the avenging angel of the Italian Twitterverse, promoting the hashtag, or “the time that,” which was conceived as an Italian answer to #metoo but has had far less impact. Depicts her raising a fist, and her account bio reads, “I was born for such a time as this #noshamefist.” She has accused an unidentified Italian actor-director of exposing himself to her when she was 16, and a “Hollywood big shot director” with drugging and raping her when she was 26. She warns that abused women know where sexual predators sleep, has resurfaced accusations in tabloids and maligned the “misogynistic patriarchal Italian society” where “sex assault victims are shamed.” Ms. Zanardo, the rights advocate and filmmaker, said that to institute cultural change would require teaching Italian children to respect women as equals. Advertisement “If the actresses had started accusing big producers here, no one would have been interested,” she said. But with women expected to play a major role in national elections in the coming months, Italian politicians are starting to seize on stories of rape, disfigurement, murder and other violence in Italian newspapers. The anti-immigrant politician, for instance, said at a rally in Rome on Sunday that women were increasingly at risk of being raped by migrants who had come to the country illegally. The most high-profile woman in the center-left government, the undersecretary of state Maria Elena Boschi, has listed on Facebook the government initiatives that she says are helping women in the country. And that she has done nothing for women by replying “the reality cannot be distorted by anyone, not even Silvio Berlusconi.” She also came under attack by another critic, Marco Travaglio, who in the past has with an actress pretending to be Ms. The undersecretary responded on television this past week: “If I had been a man, I would not have been treated like this. He made money going into Italian theaters with a scantily clad actress who would mimic me.” Back in Montecitorio Palace, Ms. Boschi sat near Ms. Boldrini, listening to women describe their stories of harassment, rape, sexual slavery and general discrimination. “This chamber shows many things,” Ms. Boldrini said, adding that women were united. “The country cannot ignore us anymore.”.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. Archives
March 2018
Categories |