A red slip inadvertently falls from the balcony, the door stops sweeping the broom on the landing and looks at him astonished, petrified by the idea that a woman could hide such a skimpy scrap of cloth under her skirt. This is the scene with which it opens The investigations of Lolita Lobosco, the new Raiuno fiction with Luisa Ranieri that bewitched the audience with a Bulgarian audience of 31.8% share, leaving, however, the perplexity of some spectators not entirely convinced by some simplifications seen during the episode, such as the representation of the protagonist itself that, reading the novels by Gabriella Genisi to which the fiction is inspired, is described just like this: “A policewoman with a bra fifth, twelve heels, single and with a team of males to tame”. The preferred marker of the series, rather than the development of the plot and the yellow to be solved, is in fact linked to the person of Luisa Ranieri, to the legs, to the curves, to the mouth framed by a showy lipstick.
At the police headquarters in Bari, the city where the story takes place, everyone seems to stop at this: they see Deputy Commissioner Lolita walking straight to her office and think about her erotic potential complaining, however, about his work ethic and the hours and holidays that he doesn’t seem to care about to take the case home. Along with the criticisms of the over-loaded female representation there are, however, also the perplexities about cadence from Bari which, according to the citizens, could have been much more accurate and less speckish, and on certain stereotypes a bit outdated like the greengrocer who agrees to give Lolita Lobosco a lift across the Lungomare while she bites into an apple and makes her way through the watermelons and greenery in a scene that could have been shot by Comencini in the 1950s. One point in favor, however, is that fiction does have it, and it is the will to show even those against it, especially men who continue to exercise judgments on women about their behavior and their way of behaving.
It would be very easy today to stop at the narrative of the woman of power who puts men in line as a woman of power. Showing the distrust that those same men exercise about her, on the other hand, makes us understand that we are in the real world and that a desk does not always help protect oneself from prejudice. In a scene from the first episode we see, in fact, colleagues knocking on Lolita Lobosco’s door. It is the first of the year, the deputy commissioner has just spent the night with a man suspected of murder until the day before and the expression of the colleagues who see her approaching the entrance with a makeshift shirt encloses the whole difference due to its too impulsive nature, too reckless, as if Lolita’s affairs of the heart were theirs. For a couple of years now, the presence of women in prestigious positions in Rai fiction has increased dramatically – we think of Imma Tataranni, but also of Captain Maria and Mina Settembre, all randomly from the South – but we must not stop at this: the best way to fight sexism is not to pretend that it does not exist, but to allow the protagonists to face it with an open face, not stopping at heel twelve but trying to show that it envies them and real-world gossips can be fought more blamelessly, through dedication and commitment on the ground.
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