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Lorenzin, Trainspotting e i veri disastri della comunicazione

Fertility night

So this year the Italian minister of health Beatrice Lorenzin decided that today (22nd of September) is the "fertility day". Let me explain it better. In the last few weeks she started a campaign promoting fertility and probably she couldn't have found a way more offensive to do that even if she wanted: the posters showed sentences like "beauty doesn't have age, fertility does" or "hurry up! Don't wait for the stork" or even "fertility is a common good " (which I think it's worst, I'll explain later why). 1) the campaign doesn't consider omosexual families, mostly because in Italy we barely have civil partnership (which is not even marriage) not to talk about adoption 2) it doesn't consider that maybe (MAYBE) a woman before getting pregnant would like to finish her studies, have a job, being able to keep it even being pregnant and someone to do it with that possibly doesn't run away after knowing she's pregnant 3) it' incredibly offensive towards women and men who are sterile 4) HAVING A BABY IS A PERSONAL CHOICE and definitely not a duty towards the nation. That thing that it's really disturbing about that poster is that those are more or less the same words that were constantly repeted to women during fascism: " women! do babies to serve the nation! So they will became soldiers and protect our nation!" Or something like that. And it really scares me to hear more or less the same words in 2016. For our minister of health our uterus is not ours. That also explains why she's against abortion I guess. Despite of a huge number of complaints against this campaign (and the very same idea of a fertility day) yesterday another masterpiece came out of their rotten minds: http://immagini.quotidiano.net/?url=http://p1014p.quotidiano.net:80/polopoly_fs/1.2532039.1474477429!/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/gallery_800/image.JPG&h=495&pos=top&w=626&mode=clip The text says : " the good ways to promote" (showing an image of white hetero couples )and "the bad mates to leave" (showing an image of people of color and a girl smoking probably weed) I think I don't even have to say a thing about that one So I really hope this minister gets fired or sued or resigns or everything. But mine is a shitty country so it probably won't happen.

If I’m sounding so calm, it’s just because I’m still recovering from the shock and disgust.