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Stuff You Should Know

Short Stuff: Franca Viola

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.678.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

One of the world’s unsung heroes – at least outside of Italy – is a brave woman who stood up to an insidious and longstanding custom and made her country a better place for it.

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0:39.3

Hey, and welcome to the short stuff.

0:41.0

I'm Josh and Chuck's here and Jerry's here for date.

0:44.1

So that makes this an official short stuff.

0:47.1

That's right.

0:48.0

And we're going to issue a trigger warning on this one.

0:50.9

Part of the story has to do with sexual assault.

0:53.0

So we just wanted to kind of let everyone know that that's coming. But ultimately, this is a Part of the story has to do with sexual assault, so we just wanted to kind of let everyone

0:54.7

know that that's coming. But ultimately, this is a story of courage and bravery. Yeah. So if you go

1:02.3

down to Sicily and southern Italy and ask them what a fuotina is, they will say, uh, we don't really

1:09.4

do that anymore, but we'll tell you what it is anyway.

1:11.7

It means sudden escape.

1:13.6

And in its most benign form, it was a way for couples who were consenting.

1:19.4

They wanted to get married, but their families were like, no, we don't approve of this union,

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and therefore you can't get married.

1:25.4

It was a way for them to elope.

1:28.0

All right?

1:28.3

So the Fooatina was essentially an elopement.

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