Words are stones, said Carlo Levi, even if we often forget it or are
simply not aware of it, like those fathers who scold their children forplaying with toys that are not consistent with their biological sex, ora mother who prays for her god for the daughter to stop wearing pantsand go back to skirts and look for a husband, perhaps with money.Gestures and words, hands that flutter or ferocious gazes in angelicfaces, the shapes adapt to the image that society has built to level andconform. However, what happens when the body refuses to bend to theforms imposed by culture through social structures such as the familyand its ideological apparatuses, such as the school or the church? Itdepends... If they are a few individuals, they are isolated from thesocial assembly, pushed indoors or into ill-fated night clubs, or sentinto internal exile, to desert islands guarded by state soldiers (whomay at night, unseen, they can also be tempted by some improvidentattendance). More often, while repressive laws are being voted on, theyare left to the batons of the so-called "law enforcement" and if amobile phone records them beating up defenseless women or men, there isalways a commander who covers up or transfers them. Facts and gestures,images and meaningful words even when those who utter them seem unawareof showing their own personality and profound attitude towards differentpeople, both sexual and gender. Like the relative who tells you atdinner that he is not homophobic, in fact he has many gay friends (nevertrans, of course, and perhaps not even lesbians), but... be careful notto invite them home, with the children chasing each other and not younever know!All this became a public spectacle at the end of June thanks to thecouncilor of the Brothers of Italy of the municipality of Lissone inlower Brianza who, to motivate her opposition to the adhesion of themunicipality to the Re.a.dv charter, the manifesto of the network ofagainst homophobia, reiterated that "I have more gay friends thannormal", not realizing that he was affirming by denying his homophobiaand, not happy, he fell into the pit of consideration by reiterating:"Gays? I treat them like any other able-bodied person." If there were nocrying, we'd die laughing! And since, in the shady parts where the ladywas raised, it is fashionable to consult Treccani, I go and see:distinguishing vocabulary from dictionary (concentrate Lollobrigida!),in the first the word "able-bodied" is attributed to the field ofpsychology, referring to an "individual who has an intelligencecoefficient around the average values". I don't know if the sister fromItaly mentioned above was referring to this meaning given the potentialimplication: if she and "normal" people like her are distinguished by an"average intelligence", the different, still sexually speaking, would beless so, but they could even be more so, as his non-brotherly friendSalvini should know when, to make himself beautiful because of theimaginary bridge, he mentions Leonardo da Vinci! (I confess that linkingsexuality to intelligence attracts me a lot, such as: those who fuckbetter develop their intelligence more! But also: those who sleep withpeople of the same sex multiply their neuronal connections, perhaps dueto the "neurons mirror"...)Given the dangerousness of the previous route, at least for hirsuteright-handed people, it is much more probable that the Councilor ofItaly was referring not to the dictionary but to Treccani's vocabulary(watch out Lollobrigida!). Here we do not encounter a specific lemma,but its use in that of "handicap", where it is explained that "theperson in a handicapped situation is called disabled, the more limitingterm handicapped having fallen into disuse. In this context, those whodo not present problems are defined as able bodied". Leaving aside fornow a reflection on the validity of this conclusion of the officialthesaurus of the republic, in this context, it is assumed that the"problems" to which the definition alludes are generally of a physicalnature. Therefore, following this logic, for the sister of Italy of thelower Brianza, a person who desires another of the same sex, iscomparable to a blind or a lame person, and so on and so forth... Thisnaturally also applies to those who he has dark skin, given that the"able-bodied", always masculine, can only be white and with blue eyes,preferably from the Veneto!I don't remember who said that, with certain rulers, comedians arelosing their jobs, but the same logic seems to apply here too: there isno need to do sophisticated semiotic analyzes to discover the homophobicand authoritarian understatement of the right. They simply say, evenwith a certain pride, what others do not dare but practice, includingthe so-called left and, in general, Italian society. On the latter side, we continue to talk about tolerance and inclusion,programmatic words of a strategy that claims to change the situation ofrights and social justice. The concept of tolerance that seemed outdatedoccasionally resurfaces explicitly in the words of the aforementionedsister, but also of the highest authorities of the two parliamentarychambers. To tolerate is to be ashamed of the crazy uncle, who shutshimself up in a room when festive visits come. It is a little moredifficult to consider the political criticalities of the concept of"inclusion": including means normalizing, I accept you if you don'tdetract from the model of man and woman that society has built foritself. And this does not only apply to the different of any kind, italso applies to women who end up fighting to be... accepted as "men".Just see what happens in the many parades of the so-called gay "pride"or whatever you want to call them, like the recent one in Milansponsored by the worst capitalist companies present in that city.The current great debate revolves around the right of homosexual couplesto marry and form families and have children, as if the possibility ofother models of life together did not exist. These fighters, so tospeak, don't want to make a revolution: what they simply want is to beleft in peace, finally included and happy in their homes. We have foughtfor many years against the bourgeois nuclear family, "dens of iniquity,locked doors", as Gide called it, and now we waste the subversivepotential of difference in trivial requests for normality, while thepoor are getting poorer and the single thought of the right graduallyconquers the West. Be careful what you ask for, you could finallyachieve it and you will finally be well integrated into an Orwellian andrainbow world which, obviously, would not be able to integrate the mostfluid and the crazy queers and the die-hard queens, so they will have toget rid of them in the new islands of confinement , such as thehistorical ones of the jarrusi in Catania or the females in Naples,during the historical fascism. In the masthead of our newspaper we readthat we are here writing and fighting together for "social liberation"which includes the need to think about the future in a radical way,perhaps without mothers and fathers or godparents. Pure desire, finallyreleased...Emmanuel Amodiohttps://www.sicilialibertaria.it/_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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