In Italy, men are responsible for the majority of antisocial and violent behavior: in 2018, males accounted for 82.41% of the 500,000 perpetrators of crimes for whom criminal proceedings were opened in the course of a year, 85.1% of people convicted by justice, 92% of murder defendants, 98.7% of perpetrators of rapes, 83.1% of perpetrators of fatal road accidents, 87% of abusers on minors and 93.6% of defendants for child pornography.
They are 95.5% of the mafia population, 87.5% of defendants for fighting and 76.1% for theft, they are 91.7% of tax evaders and 89.5% of usurers, 93 .4% of drug dealers and 95.7% of the prison population.
This is the incipit of the new book
“The cost of manhood.
What Italy would save if men behaved like women”
(Il pensiero Scientifico editore) written by
the economist Ginevra Bersani Franceschetti
who, together with the historian of the economy Lucile Peytavin, already author of 'Dans Le coût de la virilité' (published in France on 8 March 2021, editorial event of the year and occasion for heated debates on how much France would save if men behaved like women) has courageously photographed the Italian situation to date with the objective eye of statistics .
Geneva Bersani explains to ANSA LIFESTYLE: “The exaltation of brutality in Italian culture also has a strong impact on our wealth.
In total, we estimate the cost of manly behavior to the Italian economy at 98.78 billion euros a year.
This figure is enormous: it is equivalent to 5% of the Italian GDP in 2019.
How much do violent men cost the Italian population?
At least 1,700 euros per person and per year
”.
“The book allows us to realize the great weight and over-representation of men in antisocial, uncivilized and violent behavior.
On the other hand, the phenomenon is neglected at the institutional level.
Taking road accidents as an example, it can be seen that in
83 percent of cases they are men at the wheel.
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The first criterion is being a man, the second is being a young man, the third is being a young man who drinks and the fourth is being an older man.
The volume aims to be a starting point for reflection on
the cultural origins underlying this phenomenon
.
Why remain blind to this situation?
Why is the question of the cost of manhood never put at the center of the debate?
Bersani specifies: “First of all, “nature” often acts, consciously or unconsciously, as a justification: males are “naturally” violent.
Instead
, science has amply demonstrated that there is nothing biological in expressing oneself with violent and abusive behavior
and now, for the first time, the numbers confirm major cultural and non-biological differences”.
Men are by no means predestined to be more aggressive
or to take more risks than women.
Men are not born violent, they become violent.
“To stop these virile behaviors, we need
to act on our cultural schemes,
- concludes Bersani.
- Parents, grandparents, family friends, school teachers, early childhood professionals, middle or high school teachers, sports educators.
Each of us must first
reflect on education and the models it transmits to children
.
The education given to boys is truly senseless: on the one hand
they are taught the democratic principles of equality, fraternity and parity;
on the other, they are conditioned to manhood,
to the valorisation of domination over others, of strength and lack of empathy”.
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