The sportswoman and consultant for France Televisions on the Tour de France did not hesitate to denounce a drawing without high intellectual flight.
"Disillusioned, @humanite_fr increasingly badly named. You have to have no respect for women, for women, to lower six years of sports consulting on television to this level, "said Marion Rousse on her Twitter. Why this rant? The former champion of France cycling was the subject of a sexist and degrading caricature, Sunday, September 6 in the newspaper Humanity.
In the drawing, the sportswoman and consultant is represented in lingerie with nipple covers, while lying lasciviously on a bed alongside the French runner Julian Alaphilippe, her companion. “Julian, can you answer France TV's questions?” Is it written in the caption. The rider of the Deceuninck-Quick Step training, for his part, is caricatured, his tongue hanging out.
On social networks, many Internet users have also denounced a misogynistic caricature.
"That we are still being inflicted in 2020 this type of sexist, degrading and vulgar humor plunges me into deep disarray … @humanite_fr get started … so boors will never evolve. ", writes, for example, @ElisaMadiot.
The Huffingtonpost recalls that Marion Rousse and Julian Alaphilippe formalized their relationship at the beginning of the year and even confined themselves in love in the Pyrenees.
On the set of C to you, last week, the native of Saint-Saulve had responded to her detractors concerning her relationship: "JI'm professional, people don't care if I'm Julian's girlfriend, I'm here to do my job. "
With the scale of the scandal, Humanity tweeted: "We fully share the outrage at this cartoon. We quickly unpublished it. It is against the values of @humanite_fr, which promotes the dignity of human beings and the feminist struggle. We pray @Roussemarion to apologize for this lack of vigilance. "
But what does Espé, the cartoonist behind this drawing think? The latter initially reacted in a brutal manner, via the Twitter account, of one of his colleagues (the Huffingtonpost had time to take screenshots). The man is said to have declared: “that we are inflicted with this kind of pseudo-sport of boiler (s) and media-sports coalition (s) and unspoken ". In addition, he identified himself with the members of Charlie hebdo, killed in January 2015.
"She can come and give me kalashnikov blows like the friends Char, Cabu and Wolinski. "We're Charlie" until it hits us like it always does. (…) It's still not our fault that it sleeps on one side and the other in the 'middle' (…) Sexism is about making a difference, here we don't”, He explains. Since then, the messages have been erased, like the cartoon.