Getting Close in the Wrong Way

Yesterday the Peace Nobel Price was confered to 3 women. 2 Liberians and 1 Yemeni. Especially the Nobel to Tawakul Karman was an acknowledgement of the new role that women conquered in their own societies during the Arab Spring. 

In my country and in many other European countries women's status is one of the reasons that push many people, especially girls, to get interested in the Arab world and to be active for human rights in the Middle East. 

It is embarraccing for an Italian to see how the difference between the two banks of the Mediterranean sea are getting more and more close in the last months. They are reaching the point in which they should be considered virtually inverted. On the bank that was used to be the southern one women are conquering an important role in their society. They are active, present and often they are listened around the world with much more interest than their male collegues. And first of all they are full of dignity. On the contrary, on the bank that was used to be the northern one (Italy, I don't want to involve in this argument Greece or Spain that have their problems but not this one) women are losing everyday a piece of their dignity of front of an old, respectless, idiot and completly out of reality leadership. We discover every day stories about young girls who goes at the court of the emperor to exchange sexual favours for money, power, and raccomandations. And this is only the top of the iceberg of a society that istinctively sees women in the subjected role of courtisan of a      world ruled by men because of a natural right. More or less  like  the Middle Eastern world as we were used to see it just some years ago (actually even worse... nobody ever thought that in the Middle East women were seen as sexual tools   ). But now apparently the banks are no longer the same. Probably in some years women rights activists will come from the North Africa and the Middle East to try to explain to our society that women are not just tools or dolls. 

Obviously now we talk only about women rights. But we have just to wait a while to talk also about democracy and corruption.