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“GF Vip 5”: the (ugly) confrontation Antonella Elia-Samantha De Grenet and the violence of women against women

Hundreds of feminist battles trampled by ten minutes of TV, by a confrontation that makes us understand how much anger there can be inside the words that are chosen with the sole purpose of hurting and hurting the other. We are at the thirty-first episode of Big Brother Vip, Samantha De Grenet, defined as a very “aggressive” and sensitive person, is about to meet the woman who first pointed out to her the harshness of her attitudes inside the House: columnist Antonella Elia, who chooses to cross the threshold of the Glass Room to name four to the “vippona” who, in more than one confessional, explained how Elia’s comments do not affect her in the least.

“A tiger doesn’t turn around for a dog’s bark” De Grenet immediately points out, explaining that from someone like Elia, who got tangled up in a reality show and came face to face with Valeria Marini in more, she couldn’t learn anything even if she wanted to.

Elijah’s reaction, however, confuses not only Samantha, but also the home audience, who previously couldn’t wait for the two to animate the clash and now begins to think that perhaps the limit has been exceeded. “You are the queen of arrogance, who do you think you are?” Am I cabbage? You don’t have the right to talk to me like that “adds Elijah before defining her rival as” the princess on a pea “and, above all, “The queen of gorgonzola”, epithet referring to a famous advertisement in which De Grenet starred at the beginning of her career. “That was the peak of your career, being the queen of gorgonzola for two years” teases Antonella, generating around her a note of embarrassment suggested by Samantha’s silence. The definitive jab, however, comes shortly after, when the commentator, not satisfied, decides to lash the last attack, the decisive one: “You’ve gotten a little fatter, lately you’ve been giving in to the weight of age.” But how: it is thirty weeks since the Big Brother Vip boasts the respect of women and then lets pass a comment of this type, which has the aggravating circumstance of putting together two themes, that of pounds and that of age, on the same scale?

It is not the first time that reality show this year has slipped into ambiguous phrases and bordering on sexism. It happened, for example, with Mario Balotelli who, taking advantage of his visit to his brother Enock, was keen to remind the former flame Dayane Mello of when, intimately, she pulled back frightened by her size. A comment that, especially due to the reaction of social media, was partially retracted during the same episode, but on which the production and the presenter have never returned because we know that not talking about something helps to make it disappear in the memory. This time, however, the issue is even more debatable, also because the offense comes from a woman against another woman. Let’s be clear: it is logical that dislikes and likes transcend gender, and it is logical to expect that two women, as well as two men, are perfectly free to send themselves to that country in front of and behind the cameras. The thing that hurts the most, however, is the ferocity of the attack, the pull of the dance very delicate things – the unproductive career, the weight, the advancing age – for free, sometimes forced. We know that one of the main reasons that led the production to hire Antonella Elia is precisely the fact that she does not mince words, but there is a limit that it would be good not to cross. If only because the risk is to send a terrible message at home that could clash with the speeches on violence against women that are often brought up by the landlord.

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