Pellegrini’s monologue on the broadcast of Italia 1: “I exposed myself and I defended the people I love, paying the consequences”
An evening from … Hyena. Federica Pellegrini, guest and host for one evening of the Italia 1 program, proposed a monologue on men. “Here many women in recent weeks have talked about their experiences and their ideas, and tonight it’s my turn”.
the monologue
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“I have never shied away from confrontation – continued Federica -: I know I have character, and I’m not ashamed of it. I have always fought for what I believe in, I exposed myself and I defended the people I love, paying the consequences . It’s part of the game. So I accepted, I thought about it, and there is one thing that made me think in particular: in all these years, in which I have competed against women, because I have had to confront myself much more often with men? Men who were waiting for me at the gate whether I won or lost. Because if you fall you are a finished athlete, and if you stand up you are a princess placed on a pedestal. Pedestal that, in any case, sooner or later you pay, because if a man wins and goes rightly proud of it, he is a bomber, if a woman wins and goes rightly proud of it, he pulls it. So they are all waiting for the disaster, like “let’s look through the peephole what happens”, that if it goes wrong we go out on the landing to celebrate, men who judged me a private life, because if you are a male athlete and you have relationships you are a successful man, if you are a female athlete and you have relationships you are the man-eater. Like that son of a swimming coach, who when I defended my coach tweeted “yeah, he’s your penis of the year”. A very fine sports analysis? What then I wonder, why the penis of the year? Is it annual, like the car tax? “.
no discount
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“Men who at 16, at my first Olympics, when I was struggling with acne like all teenagers in this world – underlines the Beijing 2008 Olympian – commented on the radio” it will be testosterone “. How many laughs. Men who , in my work, they have the right to victory because all the sports that you, a woman, have started practicing, they practiced them first, they performed them better, they invented them. Because important sports “are sports for men “. Because important things” are men’s things. “And again:” It’s time to take stock, and so tonight I tell these men that if you liked thinking of me like this, I’m glad you enjoyed it, at least you. To other men, those in my life, I say thank you for giving me a look that believed in my eyes, in my strength, in my beauty. It is men who matter to me: those who do not need men’s things. Ah, there are also str … women, of course – concludes Pellegrini -. But they asked me to speak for a few minutes, not for a few seconds. “
December 7 – 11.41 pm
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