You make me laugh too much... "feminist lobby extremely powerful even in judicial circles"... "this capitalist conspiracy called feminism"... how do you even talk? Rokardo probably still lives with mom and dad, they cook for him, iron his shirts, pay for his university, he is surrounded by women and loves them, but "those who should demand rights are men." Yet, he does not look to Iran, nor to any of the 2 billion 350,000 women living in conditions of semi-slavery, subjected to medieval laws, unprotected, exploited, and subservient to men. No: Rikardo is talking about the women around him that he loves, that is, those from Cinisello Balsamo, where he lives. >> Casa del Popolo Majakowsky, in the 1970s. The hall is packed with long tables of people playing tombola.
Comrade Vladimiro Tegoloni reads the numbers in one breath.
Cioni Mario
Tombola!
Vladimiro
Enough with the tombola! Enough with the tombola, suspending the recreational... let’s start the cultural!
Many quickly stand up to leave.
Vladimiro
Sit down, dammit! I need to present to the audience the indispensable title and theme of the debate... and then... also based on the famous proverb: a hair from a woman pulls more than two pairs of oxen, I give the floor to the two ladies.
Here’s the theme: “Can a woman allow herself to compete with a man?” NO!
Marta
Yes!
Cioni approaches the stage…
Vladimiro
Let’s get to the debate… the floor goes to Cioni Mario.
Cioni
No... I want the tombola...
Vladimiro
Come on, come on... good for nothing... excuse the term...
Ester
It's not that...
Cioni
Hi...
Ester
Hi... we didn't want to hold a conference, we just wanted to...
Voice from the audience
Lick me!
Vladimiro
The first one I hear say lick me, I’ll knock them out... Excuse me... let’s move on...
Ester
We just wanted to have a chat about women’s issues… then in the end, we’ll draw our conclusions…
Vladimiro
Oh Cioni please… go get drinks for the ladies…
First speaker
Excuse me… I followed the issue a bit… angry women and so on… but honestly… the woman, the woman, the woman… or the man?
Cioni Mario has gone down to the bar of the Casa del Popolo. On the walls, political posters of the PCI and PSI.
Cioni
Hey, Vanda… give me a drink… there are two feminists, they are two of my friends… I know both of them well… they are really my friends… bring me… some wine… when… why have you never wanted to try enjoying a man… today in Italy…?
Second speaker
I’m for equality of men and women… except for me, who is too superior and keep my wife submissive… but others could leave women a little more free… of course!
Ester
All right. Who should speak now?
Third speaker
In certain cases yes, but also the man has his suffering, like me when I used to make love with a girl from Aiolo, on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, without a car, ten kilometers on foot… and sometimes even in the rain… oh why didn’t she come to make love at my place, that little cow?
Cioni
Sure Vanda… also it's been four months since you got married and you’re not pregnant yet… either you’re blocked or you never get laid… how’s that here… well… you went and married that half-wit Moreno… of course… ‘oh I like Moreno… I want Moreno… give me Moreno…’ fuck you and Moreno.
First speaker
In short… feminism… women’s issues… the female… the female… or the male?
Cioni
Here I brought it… I went down…
Gnorante and Buio appear in the room and come towards the stage. Cioni tries to slip away.
‘Gnorante
Four male friends happen to be playing cards… win some, lose some, win some, lose some… three win, one loses… ‘Pay!’ ‘I don’t have any money’ ‘Pay up!’ ‘And I have no money.’ Gambling debts, debts of honor… you will give us something in kind… now… the cow, she doesn't have… the calf ran away… you will give us your mother and the debt is settled… Question...
First speaker
The mother, the mother, the mother… or the father?