A-Infos (en) Wild CAT - Anarcho-feminist collective Turin isattending I love you from (making you) die. (it) [machine translation]

Info point against patriarchal violence and the toxic and mystifying story of gender-based 
violence. ---- "Killed twice. The narrative that denies and erases women's lives ---- I 
love you from (making you) die ---- The numbers of patriarchal violence against women draw 
a real war bulletin. The war against female freedom, the war against free women. A war 
that the media conceals and minimizes, contributing to multiplying it, offering 
extenuating circumstances to those who kill, beat and rape. Women like Elisa, strangled by 
a "good giant", are killed twice. Killed by the man who deprived them of life, killed by 
those who deny them their dignity, telling violence with the lens of love, excess, passion 
and madness. Romantic love, passion cover and change the sign of violence. Women are 
killed, wounded, raped in excess of love, by passionate frenzy. A pre-packaged alibi, 
which we find in newspaper articles, in interviews with relatives and neighbors, in the 
harangues of lawyers and prosecutors. This false narrative aims to hide a war, which is 
fought but not recognized as such. The media are responsible for the perpetuation of an 
imaginary, which justifies and feeds violence against those who do not conform to the 
heterosexual norm, to the imposed roles. The media blame those who suffer violence, 
scanning their lives, behaviors, freedom choices, to justify male violence, to annul the 
freedom of women, guilty of not being prudent, of not accepting the risk of violence as 
"normal" kind. The stereotype of "those who seek it", whether they are sex workers or 
those who do not wear clothes similar to cloth cages, is a constant in the story of the 
media. Gender-based violence is confined to the pages of crime news, to deny its political 
significance, transforming beatings, rapes, murders, harassment into episodes of common 
delinquency, into private matters. The media, faced with the violent unfolding of the 
patriarchal reaction, is attempting to privatize, familiarize, domesticate the 
confrontation. Women are helpless victims, men are violent because they are crazy. Madness 
takes away responsibility, hides the disciplinary and punitive intention, becomes the 
exception that breaks normality, but does not challenge shared narrative. Male violence 
against women is a daily occurrence, but the media tell us of it as a temporary break in 
normality. Raptus of madness, excesses of feeling hide under the umbrella of pathology a 
violence that fully expresses the tension to reaffirm the patriarchal order. If domestic 
violence falls under the sign of illness, the violence carried out by strangers is 
inscribed in the metaphor of the jungle, of the herd, of bestiality. Violents, especially 
if they are foreigners, distant, different become the pivot of a media narrative, which 
places them constitutively outside the social forum. Here male violence emerges from the 
stereotype of the madman, to assume that of the beast. Society is healthy: those who kill 
women are either crazy or a beast. Not human, out of the human. The order is safe. 
Mourning is private. Violence against women becomes a tool to reinforce racism towards 
migrants: the foreigner is described as If domestic violence falls under the sign of 
illness, the violence carried out by strangers is inscribed in the metaphor of the jungle, 
of the herd, of bestiality. Violents, especially if they are foreigners, distant, 
different become the pivot of a media narrative, which places them constitutively outside 
the social forum. Here male violence emerges from the stereotype of the madman, to assume 
that of the beast. Society is healthy: those who kill women are either crazy or a beast. 
Not human, out of the human. The order is safe. Mourning is private. Violence against 
women becomes a tool to reinforce racism towards migrants: the foreigner is described as 
If domestic violence falls under the sign of illness, the violence carried out by 
strangers is inscribed in the metaphor of the jungle, of the herd, of bestiality. 
Violents, especially if they are foreigners, distant, different become the pivot of a 
media narrative, which places them constitutively outside the social forum. Here male 
violence emerges from the stereotype of the madman, to assume that of the beast. Society 
is healthy: those who kill women are either crazy or a beast. Not human, out of the human. 
The order is safe. Mourning is private. Violence against women becomes a tool to reinforce 
racism towards migrants: the foreigner is described as different become the pivot of a 
media narrative, which places them constitutively outside the social forum. Here male 
violence emerges from the stereotype of the madman, to assume that of the beast. Society 
is healthy: those who kill women are either crazy or a beast. Not human, out of the human. 
The order is safe. Mourning is private. Violence against women becomes a tool to reinforce 
racism towards migrants: the foreigner is described as different become the pivot of a 
media narrative, which places them constitutively outside the social forum. Here male 
violence emerges from the stereotype of the madman, to assume that of the beast. Society 
is healthy: those who kill women are either crazy or a beast. Not human, out of the human. 
The order is safe. Mourning is private. Violence against women becomes a tool to reinforce 
racism towards migrants: the foreigner is described as
"beast", in order to invoke the closure of borders and mass expulsions.
We are not there. We do not accept that women's freedom and security can become an excuse 
to multiply disciplinary pressure, security and repressive devices, and growing police 
control over the territory. Patriarchal violence crosses genres, borders, classes, 
cultures. The freedom that women have conquered has cracked and, at times, broken the 
hierarchical relations between the sexes, breaking the symbolic and material order, which 
wanted them submissive and obedient. The proliferation of feminicides on a global scale 
shows that the road to women's freedom and autonomy is still very long. And uphill.
To each * of us the task of writing a different story, which is not the story of victims, 
but the story of a struggle for
freedom that is scary because it is breaking the symbolic and material order of patriarchy. "

Wild Anarco-Feminist Collective CAT Turin
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