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TURIN — A 19-year-old woman from Ercolano (near Naples, in Southern Italy) was “kidnapped,” seized and beaten by her own parents because she had fallen in love with a transgender man named Marco. For traditional parents, it may not be easy to process such a situation overnight, but respecting their daughter’s emotional choices should be an unquestionable right.
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The couple — both consenting adults — had sought refuge at a mutual friend’s house. And the parents, fixated on the idea that their daughter’s relationship fell outside their accepted norms, tracked her down using a GPS device they had secretly installed on her phone. They rushed to retrieve her by force, then “imprisoned” her in their home, waiting for her to “recover” from what they saw as some kind of “disturbance.” It was an act of blind, archaic brutality, disturbingly paired with a modern use of technology.
This leads me to believe that these parents, now under arrest, were digitally savvy enough to be aware that on TikTok, Instagram, and every other social platform, the open expression of one’s sexual orientation is no longer considered an issue.
A new course of thought
In this paradoxical scenario, I wonder whether these two people, with no prior criminal record, were driven to commit this offense by the so-called “new course” of thought; the one that justifies as a righteous moral restoration what, until very recently, was universally recognized as blatant intolerance.
One of the true laws of human nature is the continuous evolution of relationships.
I have the distinct feeling that this incident is yet another chapter in the fierce and self-righteous crusade against what every functional illiterate today dismisses as “woke ideology.” The constant, insistent narrative about the so-called excesses of political correctness has become so widespread that even the simple love story of a daughter with a woman transitioning into a man can be twisted into some kind of insidious, almost demonic, conspiracy to undermine what many call the “laws of nature.”
Yet they conveniently ignore the fact that one of the true laws of human nature is the continuous evolution of relationships.
Where will this new hysteria over those who diverge from the norm lead us? Will we return to exorcisms, magical practices and spells? Everything suggests that the witch hunt could begin just like this, with a GPS hidden on a daughter deemed a “degenerate.”
