Maris wrote:I am saying that what appears on the webmaster - here - ballanti's own site is not very nice. All of this should not be connected with Andrea which a link on Andrea's website does. It is very cheapening. Why do people want to advertise themselves and invite strangers into their lives? If somebody is doing this for Andrea - which I think must be the case - they should stop and get these links off the official site. I have not been to ballanti's site for a while so maybe these offensive things are gone but what I saw was not classy but cheap, picturing women as if selling something.
Maris wrote:What was on that site was not glamour or publicity shots - but explicit and degrading. It is not confusing or a matter of taste and it has now gone.
Women should speak up aboutt these things. Yes, more women are resorting to meat marketing, defining themselves as looks only. Some of this is unavoidable but shots of genitalia and suggestive positions are beyond acceptable. never say to each his own in these case especially when link to this type of forum. If it's a back room of a video store - I'm the first one to say don't go there but this was different.
DueBaci wrote:... from what I can tell.. a lot of those *sexy* women pics on Ballanti's MySpace are actually singers. Go ahead and click on their pic, or type their name into Mr. Google.. and you will find that they are ligit singers in the music biz. Not porn stars as you may think.
"Italy has had a long history of feminism," says Parati, who has studied Italian culture and written books on gender issues. "It is different from Anglo-American feminism [and] based not on a search for equality but rather on putting an emphasis on difference%u2026 Joining a man%u2019s world may be practical, but does not solve the fact that you end up trapped in a system that can contain and invalidate the difference that women's otherness embodies."
Maybe nudity, chauvinism and a lack of professional attainment are different parts of the same enduring Italian image: the mamma rules the house but is confined to the kitchen, rolling out ravioli while her daughters, with little expected of them professionally, seek success through fame and beauty.
Preti, the student who recently moved to London, worries about a lack of variety in role models for Italian teenagers. She says: "Young girls envy showgirls, they link beauty with success"Many young women still have the example of their mothers who don't work." In the UK, meanwhile: "Young girls are much more determined, they are career-minded. They're killing each other, they have dreams."
Women in Italy, she believes, are held back not by chauvinism but by rules and customs that inhibit their participation in work. Mothers complain of a lack of nurseries and kindergartens. Schools for older pupils finish at lunch time. The children have to be collected, they have to be fed, they have to be taken to afternoon activities. "A woman will never earn as much as she will pay a babysitter," Frati Gucci says.
Maris wrote:While Italian stallions may seduce us with their good looks, sexy music and sweet talk, it seems they do not view women as their equals and so must make lousy husbands.
Veronica. O wrote: Correct me if you must, but either you don't like iTalian policies or the people. It has to be one or the other or none becuase I may be wrong but it certainly coes across as that.
What do others think of the article? I don't think it is about adoration/ appreciation. I think it was about respect/equality and the former, without the later is hollow. I thought the article was very insightful and thought provoking. If you think these thoughts should be provoked in private - well, okay - but women need to think about these things, no?
carolina1954 wrote:
Nail on the head ! Different view, and sleeping rather than objecting.
They are obvously quite happy with the "narrow roles".
Whose view of a woman's role is the correct one ?
Whose view of a woman's role is the correct one ?
Maris wrote: Maybe things are NOT okay when women do not have choices, are subject to degrading publicity and/or dismissed outright as a man's equal in areas that have nothing to do with gender - like business, science, politics, education etc.
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