Sandrine Rousseau, candidate for the ecological primary, is the target of many personal attacks. The latest, on CNews, caused an outcry over the sexism it conveys.
Sandrine Rousseau is present in the second round of the environmentalist primary, which aims to designate the future candidate. in the 2022 presidential election. His radical positions are disturbing, as well as his new and frank tone. However, its detractors sometimes struggle to find really well-founded criticism angles. Thus, Guillaume Bigot, columnist at CNews. Sunday, September 26, 2021, the columnist sparked an uproar with his speech on the environmental candidate. He chose to denigrate her by terms interested in the physical appearance of Sandrine Rousseau.
“If you listen to her, you get the impression of an enlightened one. She’s green madness. She’s a sort of postmenopausal Greta Thunberg”, comments Guillaume Bigot while discussing the strategy of the candidate. He believes that the candidate is overplaying her radicalism: “She forces the line. She turns up the sound. When I say Greta Thunberg, you can see, she has eyes like owls (sic) and she gives out ultra-violent things while looking in front of the camera. It’s a bit like that. that Madame Rousseau is doing. She’s not the same age, that’s what I meant “.
While his words are widely denounced, Guillaume Bigot persists and signs on his Twitter account. “I didn’t know menopause was an insult. Nor did I know that for an EELV candidate, being compared to Greta Thunberg could be infamous.”, does he have commented. The columnist ended up trying to apologize, still on Twitter, while relaunching an attack against a political climate that he criticizes. “My allusion to Sandrine Rousseau’s menopause lacked elegance. Sorry if I hurt some of you but I note that the permanent attacks against the” heterosexual white male “are going cream. This wokism is becoming unbreathable.” he writes.
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An easy criticism, anticipated by Sandrine Rousseau
Criticism by the physical, in the camp of Sandrine Rousseau, we know. Alice Coffin, spokesperson for the candidate, herself has experienced it extensively and even recently. For her part, Sandrine Rousseau had anticipated these attacks. At the beginning of September, she confided to aufeminin: “I am a woman, slender, I have gray hair, something that we have never seen before. My very body, in this presidential election, puts people face to face with their contradictions and their practices of power. My whole person says I won’t pull over and discipline myself, even in appearance. And all these “weak signals” confront them with the fact that they’ve never considered a truly free woman before. and independent and taking power. “
In addition, Guillaume Bigot criticizes what he calls “wokism”. This concept, used by its detractors to denigrate it, is a fabrication from the English term “woke”. The expression “Stay woke”, in French “Restez éveillé.s”, is first pronounced in the late 2000s in the United States by artists and activists who denounce systemic racism, in particular, negrophobia. Reactionaries now use the term “wokism” in France to target human rights defenders (feminists, anti-racists …).
All committed and highly exposed women know it: criticism will come from all sides and will often be rooted in misogyny. Attack on the physique, age, trial in “hysteria” or in incompetence … Classics which not only cover their voice but also, not to confront them on the merits, often poorly mastered by the opponent. This new projection on CNews proves that from Sandrine Rousseau to Greta Thunberg, the simple fact of being a woman in politics generates debate but above all, violence.
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