On the occasion of the inauguration of the academic year at Luiss, Paola Cortellesi was invited as an exceptional guest and welcomed the students with a speech on fairy tales. The director of There’s Still Tomorrow, the film with which she achieved record takings, highlighted the sexist stereotypes present in the stories that are told to boys and girls from generation to generation. The beloved actress’s speech pleased some and attracted criticism from others. Mauro Corona was questioned on the topic. As a guest, like every Tuesday, on È semper Cartabianca, the mountaineer tried to clarify his point of view on the issue and was sincere. “He said that Snow White was a maid for the seven dwarfs and that Cinderella needed a glass slipper to be recognized by a prince”: this is how Bianca Berlinguer made the point. “In your opinion, is it possible to accuse these fairy tales of sexism?”, asked the presenter.
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“I find it ridiculous, if not pitiful, to go and bring up old fairy tales, old fables, which stood up in their time and still stand up today”, said the essayist. “Those things are monuments to be left there. Then, whoever writes today will write current fairy tales that involve integration, different genres”, he continued. Then Corona’s thrust: “All this is to make news, hype. Everything that is said is captured by the media and newspapers and ridden. Snow White was created like this. You cannot make a clean sweep of the things that were holding up because then we have to redo everything from a to z. Let’s leave the old fairy tales alone. Whoever wants to read them, reads them. It seems rhetorical to me”, he concluded.
2024-01-16 21:02:00
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