working on a research I came across an amazing text. What makes it so is the source. [...] These are the considerations of a man who even a few years ago sharply criticized the Pope (John Paul II) and in general the Catholic Church. A man who has often resulted in scandals for his provocative choices in communication ... But yes I'm talking about Oliviero Toscani.
This is the text:
Yesterday my mother told me: "I had one man, your father." Suddenly they crumbled years of sexual liberation, to convince libertarians, radical-minded. Everything I had believed a civil achievement has declined in the face of this simple statement: "I had one man, your father." I was confronted with the weakness of what I believed to be the modern, with the strength of those who say an ancient principle, without the awareness of being, she did, the true revolutionary. I wondered: are ahead of me who has lived and theorized the refusal of marriage, free love and relationships that are open or her your whole life and has remained faithful to one man? Without being Jesus Christ, I felt God's son and my mother appeared as the Madonna in a natural way, as if it were the most obvious things, she has set her life on concepts that today seem outdated, ridiculous : happiness, honesty, respect, love. While I think there has never been in the shadow of her claims against the male power, I realize that there is no more independent of her. No sense of inferiority he never touched, because the foundations of its independence had been dug in deep soils of moral rectitude, loyalty, justice, honor, and not on the surface of what we are accustomed to being politically correct. The respect and timidity with which I looked at my father's education has to respect it had nothing to do with the demands of the dishes to wash.
My mother has never felt inferior because we needed in a dish cooked with pleasure to settle and make us happy, or because she washed and ironed to get us out "always n order." I am aware that I am extolling the silence and the one that feminists have sharply defined submission. But I can not help but wonder about the true and false targets of emancipation, of what belongs to the deep convictions about what is nothing more than sterile squabble. In the search for values \u200b\u200bthat should teach us to an ethic less degraded than reflect the principle of Cosi fan tutte, my mother is an example of nonconformity and liberation: she is really freed from the stereotypes and the needs of the induced mass society. To achieve important goals, and certainly today we have been forced to abdicate essential to our integrity. We have lost the "virginity", not her.
From: Not The aim is , Oliviero Toscani, Universal Feltrinelli Economica 2001, Page 81
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