You’re looking around and see your dad, grandfather, brother, school mates who are always measuring something, measuring some power, competing and rivalling. Boys and men often feel the need to be right, to have it their own way. And since as a kid I watched and listened to what other people were doing, I absorbed a lot of these things, but did not necessarily reproduce them, because it was not really my thing; however, you must meet certain expectations to fit in the peer group and you have to play by these rules.
I think that it is about the ethical message being sent out and I think that feminism has brought the key to unlocking the code of ethics. In fact, it’s a matter of justice. Of love, of understanding yourself. Not an individual against others but an individual as a part of others. (…). So feminism is a key that unlocks culture, unlocks policies in order to understand the depth of social injustice.
And then, over time, these friends of mine have become more and more serious in a kind of “bad boys” behaviour. There has always been some kind of admiration for mobsters. This Nenad guy was a member of that group, but I didn’t like it and therefore I distanced myself.