"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!"

Carlo Conti's joke during the Sanremo Music Festival finale , referring to the pants worn by the Samurai Jay dancers that exposed their bottoms, had already sparked controversy. This was especially true shortly before Giulia's father, Gino Cecchettin, spoke on stage about violence against women and appealed 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."

Conti called it a "joke." But the dancer to whom it was addressed doesn't think so. Her name is Francesca Tanas, a 24-year-old Dominican with Sardinian and Lombard roots.

"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."

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