Vulgar insults, sexist attacks, death threats: The politician Laura Boldrini has recently gotten more dirt than almost any woman in Italy. Why the country has never had a female president and why it will probably stay that way this time too.
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Oliver Meiler, Rome
“Hate for women,” says Laura Boldrini, suddenly raising her voice on the phone, “is also a political strategy to keep us small, to show all women: ‘Look what happens to you when you stick your head out of the window, when you say your opinion”https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/.” She must know, she has gotten so much of it, so much dirt, like no other woman in Italy recently. Vulgar insults, sexist attacks, death threats And the worst thing about it: well-known political leaders have joined in the rush.