«Me in the meat grinder for months, now I feel free»- Corriere.it

How am I? I tell you the truth, now I feel really good: as liberated, after months in the meat grinder. Not a word more. why Rachel Silvestri
(who: here the portrait)overwhelmed by messages of solidarity, has chosen the delivery of absolute silence.

Yesterday the deputy of Fratelli d’Italia, with a past in the M5S, in a long letter sent to Courierhad complained that she had been forced to take a paternity test for my only three-month-old son
and have incontrovertible proof that the father was her mate and not a very influential politician of Fratelli d’Italia, a rumor that had been circulating for months in Parliament and beyond. The DNA test against slander. I wonder: but in how many ways can a woman’s body be violated, trampled on and abused?the lunge of the deputy.

A passage, the latter, which triggered a flood of messages of closeness, many public via social networks and agencies, and as many private individuals arriving on the deputy’s cell phone. It was in particular the women of the House and Senate who rallied around Silvestri, regardless of political affiliation.

There are many ways to reduce women to their body and to offend it. My solidarity with Silvestri, writes the senator Cecilia D’Elia, spokesman for the national coordination of the Democrats. And always from the Pd there is the tweet of Philip Sensi: I had heard the voice, they had asked me, but what do you think, what do you say? – says the senator – Solidarity with the Brothers of Italy parliamentarian, with his family, this city kills even like this. And the former Speaker of the Chamber Laura Boldrini: She is deeply indignant that slander against a woman still feeds on the same stereotypes as 50 years ago. My solidarity with Silvestri.

Many messages of participation from party mates in FdI: Rachele victim of enormous existential damage which struck her as a woman, mother and politician in a shameful way – writes the deputy Augusta Montaruli —. There is good talk of women’s defense but on March 8, gossip reigned everywherethe gossip, the defamation, the infamy, as I myself had to denounce in my speech in the Chamber against sexist accusations which were otherwise unfounded.

For the third pole there is the former minister Mariastella Gelmini: Still too often, unfortunately, we are victims of hatred, stereotypes, prejudices he writes. As a woman, rather than as a politician and a mother, I express my closeness and solidarity to her and her family. Laura Ravettodeputy and equal opportunities manager of the League, explains that having to defend motherhood from gossip and insinuations is demeaning, disrespectful for a family that should instead only celebrate the birth of a child.

No female voice, however, from the M5S, which Silvestri leaves amidst the controversy in January 2020to then land in FdI in March 2021: The unbearable sexist gossip must be returned to the sender without hesitation – writes the deputy of the Five Stars Filippo Scerra -, making it a social duty of the institutions and politics.