2023-09-01 08:54:00
Very quickly, the words of Andrea Giambruno aroused a wave of indignation. “If a girl drinks a little too much, she can expect a headache but not a rape“, commented Cecilia D’Elia, senator in the Democratic Party (left). For her part, the journalist denounced a “surreal polemic” and an “instrumentalizationof his statements.
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“The worst [dans son discours]is that he says it clearly in such a way as to legitimize the guilt of the victim”, comments Giorgia Serughetti, researcher in political philosophy at the University of Milan-Bicocca.
In 2019, 15% of Italians believed that a woman who experienced sexual violence while drunk was partly responsible (14% in Belgium, in 2020), according to the Italian Institute of Statistics (Istat). 39% thought she could avoid sex if she really wanted to.
And when such biases are disseminated by a figure with decision-making, political or visibility power, “it helps to maintain this patriarchal culture. The young people who watch it on TV think that indeed it could have been avoided“, comments Elisa Ercoli, president of Differenza Donna, an association fighting against violence against women.
If a girl drinks a little too much, she can expect a headache but not a rape
The journalist’s comment is also not without consequences for the young girl herself. Elisa Ercoli talks about a “secondary victimization“. That is, negative effects on the victim caused by the reaction of the environment or the system.
On Sunday August 27, the young girl was already denouncing the numerous messages on her Instagram profile, accusing her of “have looked for it well“. Since then, the harassment has continued. On Tuesday, August 29, she wrote: “I’m tired, you lead me to death“.
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