Commentary
Two more young women are murdered, the right has no response
Could they be stopped by the threat of life imprisonment as per the government’s bill establishing the crime of femicide? One would think not.
Another one. And another. Two college students, Sara Campanella, 22 years old, and Ilaria Sula, also 22.
And two young men who plead guilty to murder: the “sicko,” as Sara and her friends used to call the shady 27-year-old student who had been stalking her for two years, and the “great guy,” the 23-year-old architecture student who said in his confession he was “sorry” he had murdered his ex, stuffed her body into a suitcase and threw it down a cliff.
We know how this goes, we have seen it before: it happens regardless of age, education level, geographical location or social status. The culture that brings the murderous blades and bullets is constantly creeping in, camouflaging itself and adapting to thwart the defenses of a social body that is unable to expel the lethal toxin. The more resistance this toxin encounters, the more ferocious it becomes in order to survive, and it shows up right where one doesn’t expect it.
That is to say, among the youngest. But whether one expects it or not, that’s where it happens. It happens that young men are unable to stomach a rejection, unable to handle the freedom of one of their female peers, or to accept beside them a woman who performs better than them, whether studying or at work: and then it’s “what are you doing, where do you think you’re going, stay here with me.” Dead or alive. They have learned, often without even knowing how or why, that this is how things need to be set right, and they’re willing to say it freely before other men and before the law.
Could they be stopped by the threat of life imprisonment as per the government’s bill establishing the crime of femicide? One would think not. Does it even make sense to contrast prevention with repression? It should. But unfortunately, good intentions are being buried under the crocodile tears and ideological barriers of a reactionary right that is opposed to bare-minimum, common-sense proposals such as sexual and emotional education in schools, invoking the specter of “gender ideology” or that “the family should take care of it.”
Meanwhile, the opposition is rightly raising its voice, but seems to be struggling to call things by their name.
Originally published at https://ilmanifesto.it/tossine-letali-e-lacrime-di-coccodrillo on 2025-04-03