When in Rome…

What “Palin flap?” For goodness sakes, members of her own party were flaunting her looks and sex appeal wearing pins that said “Hottest Governor, Coolest State” and coming up with terms like VPILF…
And, I’m sorry, but if you parade your 5 children in front of the cameras and issue press releases on the state of their private relationships and their military careers, well, you’re inviting coverage of your family and the questions that come with it, fair or unfair. You can’t exploit it for political gain and then cry foul when, shocker, the press have an absolute field day.

What a load of cross atlantic prejudice. I don’t know anything about Italy, but many European countries are way ahead of the US on gender equality. I live in a country where women gained their right to vote five years before American women did. A lot of European countries have already had female heads of state, some have now. And when it comes to legislation, we are also ahead. Your country is great in many respects but that doesn’t mean that you are automatically better in every way.

The story is not surprising considering several years ago a judge said that if a woman didn’t want to be raped, she should wear pants in order to make it harder. It isn’t hard to be ahead of Italy in gender equality issues.

the only sexism involved in coverage of gov. palin’s campaign is her own party insisting that she be treated with kid gloves; that she be treated very differently that sen. clinton was treated during hers.

Hmmm…sexism…prejudice, stereotyping, or discrimination, typically against women, on the basis of sex. I suppose it would be considered sexist if a woman is considered a “B…ch” when she is exerting her authority as a CEO, congressional leader, or any other position of power. Or it may be considered sexist if a woman has been perceived as claiming positions of power because she sexed her way to the top. It may even be considered sexist if it is conceivable that men do not have as much family responsibility as a woman, therefore it is easier for men to have a family and obtain positions of power. It may be considered sexist if a woman is hired because she “looks good” and does not have credentials to back up the job requirements. It could even be considered sexist if a woman has a family and is expected to remain a housewife until the children are out of the house, only then able to pursue a career. It may be sexist if it is deemed that woman will vote for McCain because he has a “woman” as his running partner, not that any woman can decide based on or understand the issues.
Hmm…sexism, racism, and now religionism…we have come a long way since the suffragets, abolitionists, and others who fought for FREEDOM. We still have a long way to go to reach a point of BALANCE and EQUALITY!

Hi, I’m the villain Paolo Guzzanti. You totally misunderstood me: i was honestly sarcastic about Ms De Gregorio purposes, because L’Unità (as you hide to your readers) is not at all “one of Italy’s most prestigious newspapers” – it depends on personal feelings and tastes – but is the historical house organ of the former Italian Communist Party and it’s still the mouthpiece of the same party which since the Soviet Union collapse changed many times it’s name. My sarcasm was not about an innocent and pretty boring plan, but about the fact that Ms De Gregorio totally omitted to say what was – at that time – her political purposes. And so I made a sketch about a fake from-no-where newspaper, out of the blue explaining cooking and house sex not just “when their husband come home” – as you manipulated my writing cutting words- but when their husband come home from the Coop (or Unipol), meaning the typical Communist Party owned companies. I’m ready to bring you a lot of fun in the Colisseum where I used to be hung, burnt, crucified and quartered since I was born, here in Roma. I’m very glad for your attention. Paolo Guzzanti