This article is published in number 4 of Vanity Fair on newsstands until January 26, 2021
My grandmother Atala and Kamala Harris don’t just have three As’s in common. Kamala Harris’ husband Douglas Emhoff, a lawyer, resigned from his partner law firm to make himself available to the new vice president of the United States. He just opened his new social account and called it @SecondGentleman: the first second gentleman of history, they say. Always after my grandfather.
One hundred years ago my grandfather Dante Bignardi, who was a village veterinarian and before marriage also a heartthrob, married his grandmother, Atala Martelli, a not beautiful woman, not very nice, not very affable, but very solid, lucid and determined: a zdora country that until her death managed the work of her husband, five children, a large house and many animals with great attitude. On the documents under the heading profession was written “housewife”, a job that in those times and in those places – hills between Emilia and Romagna – enjoyed great respect. The grandmother administered, governed, decided: she ran the whole shack, as women have done for generations, except that her husband understood him, was grateful to her and publicly acknowledged him; he called himself a “humble servant of Atalina”.
My grandfather Dante Bignardi of Castel San Pietro in the province of Bologna and Douglas Emhoff of Brooklyn, New York, have one thing in common: they are sexy men. Few things appear as seductive about a man as understanding, honoring and valuing women’s work, at home and abroad, instead of feeling belittled if they don’t make the decisions.
“I’ve met many women running for candidacy and I love it, because I want women to have more positions,” said Douglas Emhoff during the election campaign.
«I do what Atalina decides, because only she has the whole vision of what the family and the community need, I only see a part of things, she sees everything. If it weren’t for Atala, I wouldn’t be able to treat all the animals in the country: our community owes it a lot and I most of all», The grandfather left in writing.
Between one zdora Emilian and a vice president of the United States there are not many differences: they are concrete and brisk women who know how to command for the good of all and have had the rare good fortune to meet sexy men and so sure of themselves that they can also do wives.
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