Berlusconi v the city of women

摘要

In what was perhaps his weirdest film, "City of Women", Federico Fellini took cinema-goers into the nightmare of a Latin male who is bewildered by the advent of feminism. In one scene Snaporaz, the hero, is dragged before a court to be judged for his masculinity. With rich irony, the situation of Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's most overtly maschilista political leader since Mussolini, is fast coming to resemble that of Fellini's woebegone libertine. On February 15th a female judge, Cris-tina Di Censo, sent the prime minister for trial on two charges: paying an underage prostitute and trying to obscure this alleged offence by taking advantage of his official position.