"Listen, my dear wife, since I know you like jeans, don't buy that pair that young lady had, okay? Thanks. It's pure jealousy!"
Sanremo is now over, but Carlo Conti's comments to his wife Francesca Vaccaro during the finale, after the performance of "Samurai Jay," are still causing controversy. They were a reference to the cut-out jeans, which exposed the bottom, worn by the 24-year-old Dominican dancer of Sardinian origins, Francesca Tanas. Moreover, they came shortly before the on-stage appearance of Gino Cecchettin, the father of Giulia, who was murdered by her ex-husband. Cecchettin had spoken out about violence against women , appealing to young people not to fuel the culture of possession.
"Violence," Cecchettin said, "is recognizable because it happens earlier, it begins much earlier than we think. It begins when we mistake control for love, when we think jealousy is necessary for our relationship. When we fail to teach respect, and when we let sexist jokes slip through in silence, when we use violence in our words."
A "joke," Conti called it. But the dancer to whom it was addressed doesn't see it that way.
"I want to point out that this guy named Carlo Conti literally sexualized me for some show pants," she wrote on Instagram, "and, to make matters worse, he embarrassed his wife by revealing and downplaying his jealousy and his pressure to tell her what she can and can't wear . " "In the meantime," she concluded, "I hope he apologized to her and maybe if he thinks about it a little more, he'll apologize to me too."
"My wife realized which jeans I was talking about and smiled along with me," Conti wrote on social media, with the hashtag #Leggerezza, posting a shot of Tanas from behind.
"It seems absurd to me," echoes Claudia Laruccia, another dancer from the Samurai dance troupe, "to write #lightness, belittling, ridiculing, and posting a photo of a dancer." " The problem isn't the jeans; the problem is the comments made without considering how the person in question might feel. And especially right before talking about respect for women."