Silvio does it again
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is one of my favorite people. He is constantly being accused of incorrectness but carries on regardless.
"Premier Silvio Berlusconi is being criticized for suggesting that Italy's women are so beautiful they need military escorts to avoid rape. Berlusconi made the comments Sunday, responding to questions about a proposal to deploy 300,000 soldiers in the streets to fight crime. A series of violent crimes, including a rape in Rome on New Year's Eve and another outside the capital this week, prompted the proposal.
But Berlusconi said even with added police, such crimes can happen, and that "We would need so many soldiers because our women are so beautiful."
Opposition lawmaker Giovanna Melandri said Berlusconi's comments were "profoundly offensive."
Berlusconi says he was complimenting women.
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Italian men are great pursuers of women and Silvio is one of them. It escapes me what was offensive about his remarks. They sound complimentary to me too. But I guess it is the feminist cr*p about women's attractiveness being unimportant.
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I guess the Taliban solved the "problem" of feminine allure!
The implications of the Headline used in all the news articles is completely different than what he actually said.
He was responding to a request for a larger Police presence to protect women and he was saying it would take too many people to make it work.
The tempest is misguided as the prevailing reasons rapists give often have little to do with how beautiful the victim was.
Berlusconi's "mistakes" usually come from the fact that he obviously doesn't subscribe to political correctness, a fact that he should be proud of.
Italy does have a very serious street-crime problem, and perhaps even worse, they have a large number of communists and socialist officials in their govt., one of which is the source of the complaint.
Clearly Silvio was not referring to Giovanna.
I'm with Stan.
I take the comment to be somewhat complimentary of women and highly derogatory of men...
ie that men cannot control their violent sexual inclinations when an attractive woman walks by. Perhaps he was just referring to Italian men.
You want to see men who are clearly out of control when it comes to their sexual desires? Take notice of young Mexican illegals when they see a girl walk by, especially if she's under 15!
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