The association Give to South di Vittoria, intervenes on a declaration made during the course of the Municipal Council of Vittoria.
“Our association – reads the note -, which has always been far from political parties and groups of any kind, cannot, however, refrain from stigmatizing the behavior that an adviser of the majority has taken in the classroom towards a colleague. We believe that we have witnessed an indecent spectacle, and we express all our solidarity and closeness to the councilor Sara Siggia, addressed to a sexist and decidedly inelegant “go wash the dishes”, or something like that.
An unhappy expression, not polite and offensive, although all of us, men and women, every day at home wash the dishes without problems, and there are also those who do it for a living, because it is a decent job like everyone else.
That sentence said in that way, in that context, with that tone, certainly could not have been an elegant invitation. It also denotes a cultural substratum made up of those stereotypes and clichés that our association, ever since it was born, tries to oppose and eradicate. And don’t tell us that the councilor would have used the same phrase even towards a male colleague, because we were not born yesterday and we do not believe in it in the most absolute way.
Our wish – reads the press release from Donne a Sud – is that, from this moment, in the council chamber of our city we will talk only about projects and the future, and that we will stop making offenses such that even our ancestors they would be ashamed to know that we are still at this point in evolution. Finally, we hope that the director in question, if he has not yet done so, publicly apologizes to his colleague Siggia. “
