Berlusconi Offends 100,000 Women

news.aol.com:

ROME (Oct. 22) -- More than 100,000 women have signed a petition saying they are offended by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, an initiative launched by a newspaper after the premier made a sexist remark to an opposition politician.

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Comments

[yankees]

I guess we're more concerned about this than the way women are treated in the Muslim world. Priorities I guess.
It's easier, safer and more politically correct for us to go after "Western" Leaders, (and look at the comments about Bush) than a REAL enemy of women's freedom-Fanatical Islam.

[Harrier]

Funny, if you ask the same group, they would have no problem sleeping with him. Makes you wonder how strong those feeling are.

[ailbhe]

There are far more offensive things going on in Europe right now, namely the rapid expansion of the most misogynistic religion in the world on our continent and its adherents demands that our liberties and freedoms become subservient to their 'religious rights'.

Berlusconi is a feminist compared to the hordes of militant, islamic religious nuts.

[mazzetta]

you mean Benedict's "surge" or you're one of those who speak about an islamic invasion that is only in the right winger's fantasies?

[Two Cents]

. . . when I read the headline, my first thought (like most, I'm sure) was, "Only 100,000?" (Berlusconi is pretty much a Neandertha­l.)

[Rog49Thomas]

considering women playthings treating them like chattel

thank god, we don't do things like that in our advanced western judaeo-christian civilization

[duxguts]

100,000 that all. Bush could have managed that before lunch.

[LinaStroppiani]

cio non e una sorpresa

[Dosadi]

He is still way behind Bush.

[Callyson]

Make that 100,001...­I am in, not just for his sexism but also for his politics in general.

[Ben Dixon]

Wow, 100,000. I had better step up my game, the most women I have ever offended at one time was three.

[alysheba 3]

He actually offends a lot more, but apparently the paper only asked Italian women.

[noweknow]

It's a shame Italy's leader openly sleep with prostitutes.

[mazzetta]

I don't now wether prostitutes are worst of the underaged Noemi Letizia, but he's in pretty good company, many lawmakers and officials have been caught with prostitutes (some with cocaine too) and yesterday Lazio's (the region in which lays Rome) governor resigned because it became public that he was being blackmailed by 4 carabinieri (policemen, now jailed) who surprised him with a transvestite prostitute and cocaine. Anyway, lots of lawmakers and officials are commonly on trial for very serious crimes as corruption, mafia and so on and nobody seems to be able to obtain their resignations, they keep on hoping that Mr Berlusconi will change the laws to escape his trials, allowing them to escape too thru prescriptions or thru the elimination of some crimes, as it's already happened for some finance related crimes Mr Berlusconi had been charged

this thing about prostitutes is just a detail among na horrible systemic mess

[EmeraldWorld]

This is the same man who wanted to keep a woman on life support because "She was still in the condition to have babies". No surprise here.