Comments on: Berlusconi: Women Are Raped Because They’re Just So Good Looking

By: Sexual Violence in Italy Used to Support Racist Immigration Policies : The Curvature

Sat, 21 Feb 2009 16:50:14 +0000

[...] month, I wrote a post about how Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi made statements which heavily implied a belief that [...]

By: marj aka thriver

marj aka thriver — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:16:39 +0000

Oh yes! As I was being raped (by my “friend” in college and by my “father” as a child) I felt so “pretty!”

“The solution to sexual violence in America
is not more laws, more guns, more police, or more prisons. The solution to sexual violence is the acceptance of reality.”

~ Gavin De Becker

This quote applies to EVERY country on the planet!

Thanks for raising awareness through The Blog Carnival Against Sexual Violence.

By: Betty Boondoggle

Betty Boondoggle — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:47:11 +0000

“But from what I understand the guy wants to put 30 000 soldiers on duty to fight sex crimes on the streets. ”

Because soliders never rape. Nosiree.

By: Racist RNC-chairman contender shirks personal responsibility; plus more links. « Small-Town Elitist

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 06:04:56 +0000

[...] The Curvature brings up something I’d read the other day that depressed me: Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi says it’s impossible to protect Italian women from rape because t… [...]

By: Claudia

Claudia — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:14:26 +0000

Reading the original italian article, I think Mussolini was making a joke on the double meaning of the word “brutti” that means both “ugly” and “horrible”.
She, despite her grandfather, is an (unsuccesful) promoter of civil rights and signed a law proposal for civil unions (that did’nt pass)

By: Cara

Cara — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 01:18:59 +0000

Sure, I agree what he said was stupid. I’m not sure he really thinks girls are raped because they are beautiful, I just think he made a stupid joke in the wrong situation.

Even if it was a “joke,” not only is rape never funny, he also made a joke that furthers rape myths. Period. I couldn’t care less what he actually believes, really, I care what messages are getting disseminated and what beliefs held by other people are getting reinforced.

But from what I understand the guy wants to put 30 000 soldiers on duty to fight sex crimes on the streets. Regardless what he said, in the end actions do speak louder than words.

But that’s not the way to fight sex crimes. And from my understanding, this is something that Berlusconi has been up to anyway, which indicates to me that he’s really just using this current horror to further an agenda he already head.

By: JDP

JDP — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:44:21 +0000

Sure, I agree what he said was stupid. I’m not sure he really thinks girls are raped because they are beautiful, I just think he made a stupid joke in the wrong situation.

But from what I understand the guy wants to put 30 000 soldiers on duty to fight sex crimes on the streets. Regardless what he said, in the end actions do speak louder than words.

By: Cara

Cara — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 01:09:57 +0000

Thanks for sharing, KJK . . . and for clearing up the Mussolini question!

By: KJK::Hyperion

KJK::Hyperion — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:45:14 +0000

Chris: no. Very no. Think of our Alessandra Mussolini as a politically active Ann Coulter: a moderately attractive, fundamentally anti-feminist right-wing woman. She said “ugly”, she meant “ugly”. She doesn’t do nuance

If she wasn’t such an extremist, you can bet she’d be in this administration’s Cabinet, in the good company of Mariastella Gelmini, Stefania Prestigiacomo and Giorgia Meloni (respectively Education, Environment and Youth, i.e. among the least relevant positions)

By: KJK::Hyperion

KJK::Hyperion — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:37:00 +0000

I apologize on behalf of Italy for our premier’s latest wallbanger. He is a disgusting populist exploiting the Italians’ ignorance, bigotry and deafness on social progress. What he is trying to imply here is that he, the nation’s big daddy, will protect the family, especially the beautiful daughters, against the (possibly foreign) deviants and freaks who have no place in our beautiful society elevated above all by Christian piety

In Italy, extremist lefties alone speak on themes of social progress, everyone else either speaks of “morality” or attacks Berlusconi. The political influence of the Catholic church on one side has prevented Italy from slipping into totalitarianism again, but on the other side it poisoned the well so much true progressists are still demonized as the “red menace”. I wish I was kidding or exaggerating

Rent and watch “Il Divo”, if you can find it, to see just how much power and influence catholics have in Italy, and how they destroyed the Italian Communist party’s reputation during the Cold War