Gervasoni offends Elly Schlein on the cover of Espresso on Twitter: “What is a man?”

“What’s up, n’omo?” This is Marco Gervasoni’s sexist comment, Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Molise, regarding Elly schlein, Vice President of Emilia Romagna to which L’Espresso dedicates the cover of this week. Gervasoni, who is also a columnist for de The truth, is not new to the mocking tones and insults on social media that trigger an avalanche of controversy every time. It also happened last year about the Sea-Watch which, he wrote, was “sunk, boom boom.” But this time the professor was stained with full-blown body shame, He commented on the physical appearance of a young woman with unpleasant and misogynistic words.

By relaunching the cover of theEspresso, where Schlein defines himself as “the face of a possible leader”, “Feminist. Ecologist. Progressive. Government”, writes Gervasoni:

What’s up, n’omo? pic.twitter.com/8au4TQHAr0

– Marco Gervasoni (@marco_gervasoni) September 5, 2020

He was immediately overwhelmed by a barrage of criticism. “And who are you, idiot?”, Rosario Trefiletti replies. “She is a woman, she belongs to the human race. A couple of evolutionary states above yours”, is Fabio Salamida’s reaction. “She is a woman, and you are a person who in a civilized country would stay away from any university due to manifest manifestations of sociopathy, sexism and human and cultural misery that make those who practice them incompatible with teaching”, comments Carlo Gubitosa . . “No. A lady, but much more intelligent and prepared than her, who reads” L’Espresso “as if it were” Playmen “, looking only at the photos”, writes @ lacasaèspoglia.

Unfortunately, however, Gervasoni’s unfortunate joke also drags many other misogynistic comments in a chain. As Mega Teresa writes: “These are the new canons of beauty on the left. One more reason to get away from them if you love normality.” Or MrGavoni who adds: “They are all in fashion recently. The most beautiful are all in porn, or in the harem of some billionaire, or both, if not people eat the leaf and s’inkazza.” To draw a bitter conclusion from the story is Massimiliano Piccini: “It is striking, but not too much, the amount of thanks received from so many poor people, like him. Sad mirror of the times.”