Tajani: "It's better to marry less flashy but more reliable women." Controversy erupts.

"If I had to give advice to my son who asks me 'What girl should I marry? Maybe a charming girl?' Yes, of course, marrying a charming girl is nice. But what kind of character does she have? No, you know, she's had several boyfriends, she dumped her boyfriend, she left, she's inclined to wear a few croissants... And then there's a girl who's less flashy but more reliable, more serious, who will be a good mother, who will remain faithful to the love she confirms with marriage, and so I say to my son: choose the second..." Antonio Tajani said this from the stage of "Itaca," the event organized by Giuseppe Cangemi on Friday in Formello. The statement went almost unnoticed even though the deputy prime minister and leader of Forza Italia had gone so far as to explain that a woman who is "charming but might cheat on you" and that then "isn't a good fit," while "a pretty, but perhaps less flashy, woman is a person who guarantees the stability of the home, of the family." Too much, perhaps, not to resurface, complete with video, on the web.

And Italia Viva brought it to light by posting it all on their social media : "Tajani always manages to amaze us, offering us pearls of wisdom. The deputy prime minister thinks it's better not to marry a beautiful girl. A 1950s-style sally, worthy of the worst of the Mediterranean patriarchy," Renzi's supporters denounce, emphasizing the inappropriateness of these words "in light of the political commitment to femicide."

"Tajani's statements about today's girls give us a glimpse of nineteenth-century women. The Foreign Minister should address the burqas of Afghan women, not the miniskirts of Italian girls," Matteo Renzi added.

The Democratic Party also strongly criticized the minister: Senator Valeria Valente said, "He's a concentration of stereotypes about women and a vision of women as angels of the hearth, faithfully waiting for their husbands at home with the children, wearing long skirts. Tajani's statements are simply shameful, unworthy of a minister of the Italian Republic."

(Unioneonline/vl)