Comments on: Viviana Mazza: Interview with an Italian Journalist

By: Malala, the Story by Viviana Mazza - Women Writers, Women Books

Malala, the Story by Viviana Mazza - Women Writers, Women Books — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 13:06:25 +0000

[…] Viviana Mazza is an award winning foreign affairs journalist with Italy’s biggest newspaper, Corriere della Sera. She amazing English and a passion for understanding and reporting about foreign affairs. She was invited to write Malala’s Story by one of Italy’s largest publishing houses, and she finished it just before getting married. She’s been a friend to Women Writers, Women Books, and a contributor. Follow her on Twitter. […]

By: rlewis9

rlewis9 — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 21:28:33 +0000

I love this point that you made: “We are all tempted to close ourselves in our cozy little worlds.” Whether physically or mentally, I find this to be true for the majority of people. We become comfortable and never leave that zone. I would agree that, in order to be good writers, we have to broaden our views of the world. The discussion of gender roles in this post really drew me in, and I would love to hear more about your thoughts on gender roles and how they are changing both in the US and abroad and a comparison of the two. Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us.

By: Victoria King-Voreadi

Victoria King-Voreadi — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 21:25:03 +0000

I totally agree with Viviana’s statements about the impact social media have had on the way information is shared, perceived and influenced. The immediacy is astounding but also very easily manipulated. What I think we all need to remember is that horrific things such as the attack on Fakrah Younas or the shooting of the 15 year-old Malala Yousafzai have always been happening – the difference now is that we are informed with heart rending detail. I am still haunted by a 2009 video that one of my English students showed me on his mobile phone of a group of middle school students (I’m not sure from which country) who ripped the clothing off a young girl then proceeded to stone her to death on camera. This is a very delicate issue because the systematic desensitizing of youth via bombardment by images of violence as “entertainment” perpetrated through games, animation and series programming – not to mention network broadcast news. The attitudes of men and boys toward women are deeply influenced by all these media – men generally tend to be visually influenced and sadly the objectification of women in images is still going strong.