Andreea Raicu reacted on Facebook after the internet was engulfed by controversies related to Ruxandra Luca, the star of the matinee “Neatza with Răzvan and Dani”captured in intimate poses with a married surgeon. The TV star, mother of three and divorcee, delivered a broad message about public judgment and the double standard that applies to women.
“The other day, a friend asked me if I knew about the ‘huge scandal’ online. I didn’t know. I was pretty disconnected. She told me that a woman I knew from a morning show was caught in intimate poses with a man at a gas station. And that the Internet was ‘on fire.’ I asked: where is the scandal? I was told: ‘She was having sex in a public place.’ Okay. If the law has been broken, there are penalties. Simple. But it was not about the law. It was about shame. About moralizing. About public execution”, Raicu wrote.
The star criticized the disproportionate public reaction and highlighted the contrast between attention to serious facts and online scandals: “I was surprised by the disproportion. When a child is killed in the crosswalk, I don’t see the same fire. When really serious things happen, the attention is fragmented, tired, short. But here, a woman is put against the wall. Mostly because she’s a mother. A single mother. She has a parenting column. She’s raising three children. As if motherhood should cancel out sexuality. As if, after you become a mother, your body no longer belongs to you. Like and how desire should disappear with respectability.”
Raicu pointed out that public opinion and criticism focused on the woman, although the man involved was the married one.
“They say the man was married. And paradoxically, even that information ended up being used against her as well. But fidelity is not a collective responsibility. It’s a personal choice. She wasn’t married. She wasn’t the one who broke her commitment. Yet the public reaction focused almost exclusively on her. As if the blame should automatically rest on the woman.”
In conclusion, Andreea Raicu criticized the hypocrisy and social control exercised over women’s freedom: “Maybe what’s really disturbing isn’t the place, or the context, or its status. Maybe it’s disturbing the freedom. A woman’s freedom to make choices that aren’t perfect. That aren’t approved of. That aren’t comfortable for others. Freedom isn’t comfortable. Not for those who look at it. Not for those who claim to support it, but only in theory. I don’t know where the scandal is. But I sure know where the hypocrisy is.”
