Ecco l’articolo che BBC NEWS ha scritto su di noi giovedi 15 aprile.
Grazie a Kates Forbes che ci segue da un anno con passione.
Film scorns Italian TV sex symbols By Kate Forbes BBC News
Some 50 Italian teenagers sit in their school hall, watching a documentary called Il corpo delle donne – The Body of Women.
They whisper and shift in their seats, but they have seen it all before.
The documentary shows a series of young women dressed in heels and not much else. Their main occupation seems to be dancing, stripping, being called stupid by male hosts, giggling and pretending not to know the answers to questions.
The TV girls are the Veline – the showgirls that are a staple of family entertainment on Italian television.
The documentary has had more than a million responses on its website alone, and more on the video-sharing website YouTube.
It has been translated into English, Spanish, Greek, French and Portuguese. And it was made not by a journalist but by an everyday woman – businesswoman Lorella Zanardo.
“It got to the point where every time I switched on the television I despaired,” she says.
“There is only one type of woman on Italian TV, and that is with a beautiful body – no brain. It is a terrible message for girls growing up, to see that the way to success is with their body, never their brain.”
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She has shown it in schools and often …
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