La violenza di genere fra cyber spazio e vita quotidiana e la scatola nera della fragilità maschile

Abstract

The theoretical contribution proposes a reflection that parallels the concrete forms of gender violence (in its various and consequential definitions) (Bartholini, 2019) with virtual ones. It explores peculiarities and boundaries and intends to highlight: the effects of bifocal distor-tion (real-virtual) within the relationships between genders (a); the substantive character of gender-based violence aimed at making havoc of the woman’s body as an archaic simulacrum and the object of a liturgical ritual now completely escaped male control (b); the concept of male fragility as a counterweight to that of superiority and male domination (c). It is through this latter concept that a peculiar key to the phenomenon of proximal and virtual violence is offered, with the intention – declared by the author – of overcoming the categories of “male domination” and “patriarchy” and instead highlight how male fragility – which is expressed in violence – is located in that shared animal heritage that has not known (in the sense that it was not able to internalize) neither culture nor morality and, in its failure to evolve, is at least in part the key to solving this social problem.