"I'm the mayor of a big city, certainly not a category that needs protecting, but every day on my social media I have men who insult me, from profiles with names, surnames, and maybe profile photos with children in their arms ."
The City Council is echoing the complaint of Mayor Silvia Salis, a former hammer thrower and former vice president of CONI, originally from Sassari. She spoke at the end of the debate on a document presented by AVS in defense of sex education in schools and against the League's amendment to the bill regarding informed consent in schools (which would effectively ban these topics from being covered in elementary and middle schools).
Those men, she continues, "find it normal to write to me 'you're a whore,' because you tell a woman 'you're a whore,' not 'you're incompetent.' They find it normal to invite me, the mayor of Genoa, 'to get some dick to calm my nerves,' or they find it normal to comment 'you can tell she plays the flute' under a news item related to the Carlo Felice Theater , just as it was normal during the election campaign to use photos of me in a bikini. Well, if you think that in this society there's no need for sexual and emotional education, you're very far from reality ."
Salis recalled that a year ago, when the center-right government was in power, a motion supporting sexual and emotional education in schools had been approved and that, in "a hypersexualized world where femicides are on the rise—a fact," sexual and emotional education "with staff trained in anti-violence centers is necessary; violence is not only physical but also verbal."
