Cesena, Wah Gina food truck sign controversy: “It humiliates women”

Sign a “food truck”, a traveling caravan offering street food, is targeted by a women’s association. The reaction of the president of a group dedicated to promoting gender equality was caused by the inscription that stands out on the car: “Go Gina“, a play on words chosen by the young owners of Cesena”food trucks» baptize your business specializing in oriental food. But the sexual innuendo sparked a backlash from Fidapa Cesena Malatesta, which defines itself as a movement for gender equality, women’s empowerment and women’s dignity in everything from employment to family life. For the president Examples by Raffaella Candoli, such as the food truck sign, “demean the woman by reducing her image to a mere sexual organ”. “From bad phrases to insubordination,” he says, “it’s always a sign of a mentality that doesn’t develop. First of all, there are reprehensible expressions, which are often kept silent, or we frame history as “goliardats”. Number one in the association does not exist in order to refute the pun and point the finger.

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“They say they did it to give an idea of ​​wandering food,” Kandoli continues, “but the use of “Wa” no apostrophe does not mean “Go”. Or do they ignore grammar Italian, or were looking for a double meaning since I gyozathe specialty they offer,’they are addictive‘ is their slogan. There was no need to do sexual innuendo? We know two more young entrepreneurs from Borga who call their four-wheel kitchen “On the fly – enjoy life“. Beautiful name. Will they be less successful than Wah Jina? We wish them a long way to go and get the appreciation they deserve.” The Kandoli Association has already opposed the advertising poster chosen to promote “Tortelli FestivalPremilcuore, where next to Sharon Stone’s image “the basic Instinct”, has the inscription “potato in the middle”. “I read that many of the women who worked at the festival did not have No objections

– tells -. But if this is true, then they become complicit in this humiliation about the dignity of women. This means that an education worthy of respect is not perceived as a right of women themselves, and this is very serious.”

“A girl is not a part of the body”

Candoli’s thoughts were that Fidapa then spreads throughout the country, thinking of the episode with the model who was covered in chocolate in the center of a buffet in Sardinia, arriving at a recent violence group. “The saddest thing,” explains Candoli, “is that it is young people who no longer have a sense of boundaries and who focusing on their peers and classmates. Sometimes when you think of a monster, you think of a mature person who lives on the sidelines, and instead they are often young and even juvenile, even in packs. Cases are on the increase where they extort sexual acts or take pictures and post intimate parts on social media if the victims feel bad or lose control. To get what? Sea of ​​likes. A girl is a person, not a part of the body, with sensitivity, feelings, dignity. From such male behavior, from psychological violence to physical abuse pass

AND very short. And, unfortunately, very practical. This means that there is still much to be done on a cultural level to hope for a better world tomorrow.”