THE PARADIGM
I have started reading a book called "Bitch" a controversial one that Cecilia and I found in a booklegger container we found while walking in Wynwood. The story about the Bookleggers Free Books Please just take one is all in here, and as the creator of the non-profit says: "it's for the people, not just for the tourists or the Wynwood partiers" Rules are simple only get 1 book any extra is $2.
The book's subtitle is "in praise of difficult women". Tough task that Elizabeth Wurtzel took with wit, badassery and poignancy. So far it is promising, but I am at the very beginning and it's very American. By that I mean, I may come across as naive to some of you as "hello darling, how come you didn't know about the book" type, or maybe annoying as in "here she comes again with the feminism saga". You can never do right. But what does it take to be a do-right woman?
"To be a do-right woman [...] sometimes you have to do wrong"
Veruska, Richard Avedon 1966
SAY WHAT?
You've got to misbehave, it's fine, not that you must be rude, but I think that a bit of Thelma & Louise should exist in all of us. First life is too short, second nobody will give you the crown of badass if once in a while you don't miss school for a matinee of that French movie.
Which chapter of THE CHEAT SHEET OF ITALIAN STYLE would work for this? Chapter ten: "You don't owe prettiness to anyone"
Steven Meisel, Vogue Italia 1997
In Italian we call them "le ragazze perbene" the ones that do no wrong, the best behaved of the birthday party. But we all know that good chances are, they may have a dark side, something that is not politically correct or that wouldn't get them in the PTA. I call them the "pageants" the ones that always "look" good.
It may be my generation, my getting older, or being raised in a family where women always ruled, but I am of the unapologetic type and the more I grow, the more I like it.
I don't believe in trying to be "likable" at all costs, because I am a woman and that't what's expected.
Marie Sophie Wilson
When I grew up, the feminist movement was all the rage, the seventies in Italy, however my mom used to say something like that despite their demonstrations, they haden't obtained any equality. I wasn't raised as an activist and I am not one, but love that Cecilia shares my opinions, is aware of the #heforshe campaign promoted by Emma Watson for the UN, belongs to a club called "Women Empowered" and is only 16.
And I am damn proud of her.
All I am saying is we are all Clark Kent and Superman at the same time and that's fine, it's good to own that naughtiness.