This article is published in issue 9 of Vanity Fair on newsstands until March 1, 2022
We have not come out better or worse, above all we have not come out, not only from Covid, but from the crisis we are going through and which is still too early to understand and tell. These two years have been an accelerated test of the future, for better or for worse. We will not come out better but much changed, and the changes are painful, and you recognize them after a long time.
We learned to work remotely, to go to school remotely, to have fun remotely, to play sports remotely, and after the first enthusiasm we didn’t like it so much. This is perhaps the future that awaits us, who knows, a future in which we will love and hang out more and more virtually. What a hunger for reality though! What a desire for experiences, for real relationships, even for conflicts, as long as they are live.
In a hundred years, sociologists and historians will be able to explain how we have changed and why, but what have we, who are now in the middle of it, understood about this time? That the most fragile are even more fragile, and the privileged more privileged. And it’s not a great thought. But the boys seem very good to me. Maybe at twenty one is more and more idealistic and purer, but they really seem to me to be demonstrating awareness of what is right and what is not right. It is not fair, for example, for a teacher to write “a prayer for parents who send their daughters dressed like sluts to school.” And that another teacher tells a girl that “she is not on Salaria”, that is, that she is not a prostitute, because she has a short shirt. The problem is language, not decorum.
A professor cannot speak and cannot think like that. We can no longer use these old and discriminating categories to define a woman. Here, in the midst of this crisis, it seems to me that many young people have clearer what they want and don’t want. It is a time of transition, tiring but necessary. We have to admit it. Get help if needed. Let’s use it, this psychologist bonus. We all need it badly.
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