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- CHILDHOOD / FAMILY LIFE / RELATIONSHIPS
R: We should always discuss the tasks that a man and a woman are doing. There is a tendency to get used to it. For example, that if [name wife] uses to feed our daughter, it becomes soon a habit and we would never consider that it could be done differently.
- CHILDHOOD / FAMILY LIFE / RELATIONSHIPS
I: (…) Did you ever have a girlfriend? R: Yes, I did. I: And how was the division of labour, roles, male female in your relationship? What can you say?
- IDENTITY
R: (…) So a man who washes dishes performs a woman’s job, thus is not manly, not masculine. And now of course you do not need to connect this to Roma only.
- VIOLENCE
R: (…) In fact, as the years went by, some situations occurred, few, in my point of view for what it’s possible to happen. There are some situations in which we even ask between the lines if there is the possibility of… but no.
- IDENTITY
R: (---) By chance I met one old classmate, in front of INSTITUTION 1 library. She jumped to me and asked, what I am doing and then the discussion went on about studying and what to do after the university. Briefly, a girl classmate, not a boy.
- PROFESSIONAL CAREER
R: And when I proved myself as a good economist, a couple of years passed – 3, 4, 5 years maybe; and they suggested that I can become the deputy director for the economic part.
- IDENTITY
R: I was about eight years old, or less, even six, seven, eight in those days. My brother was an altar boy and he was very active. He was the prefect. In F (placename of parish), we also had a vice-prefect of the altar boys. And he had sat for the Latin exam, to go to the Vatican. And he did go.
- IDENTITY
R: What I really regret is that women and men are not equal as regards physical strength. (...) We’re really stronger, and that allows men to be violent with women – sometimes with other men too, but above all with women.
- CHILDHOOD / FAMILY LIFE / RELATIONSHIPS
“A second experience, which probably had a great influence on my later life, was when I noticed at the age of 16,17 that my father’s profession would not necessarily be mine in the future. I was going to find something different.
- CHILDHOOD / FAMILY LIFE / RELATIONSHIPS
R: So… in connection with… I have children and a wife and for example it has happened that my friends called me to go out and have a drink with them and I could not go because my wife had already made programs for herself with her girlfriends for that night so I was supposed to stay at home with the
- PROFESSIONAL CAREER
“I was an intern at this newspaper, whose name I do not want to divulge, but it is widely read and probably one of the big quality papers and known for being conservative. Working there, I tested my limits. I thought that nothing really bad could happen.
- CHILDHOOD / FAMILY LIFE / RELATIONSHIPS
R: Actually in some way, I was lacking the “opening”, I was missing the model of the mother and the father – she was supposed to tell me about the bees and the birds and how babies are created, this was not present in my family.