When they talk among themselves, the bosses, the big shots, those with experience, those who boast of understanding politics and having a clear view of the scenario, they call her “the girl.” As if to say: the inexperienced one, someone who arrived where she is by a lucky series of events. Let’s call things as they are: those in her own majority, those who supported her at the beginning or jumped on Elly Schlein’s bandwagon, thought they could use her, confident in their experience and a self-proclaimed ability to understand politics. Woman, young. Equals: malleable. She will ask us for advice and we will give it to her. It’s the classic sexist prejudice, what an expert would call a “devaluing” judgment.
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The surprising fact is that it is very strong even on the left, if not even more than on the right. And the first woman secretary of the first center-left party is also paying the price. This was hinted at, in an interview with Il Foglio, by the last true communist, Ugo Sposetti, a man who has lived through other seasons as a protagonist but has maintained the intellectual honesty of someone who has given his life for an ideal. Someone who knows the Party like no other. And is also fond of it.
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But precisely for this reason, like a father with a son, he does not hide the distortions. “There is sexism against her,” he said, tearing away a veil of hypocrisy, known to all. Because the truth, admitted in the PD with microphones off and well known to the secretary’s close circle, is that much of the distrust towards Schlein as a prime minister candidate, much of the doubts and reasoning about her, including the way to convince her to take a step back, to give up the race for Palazzo Chigi, stems from a sexist prejudice: since she is young and a woman, she can’t make it.
The fact that these reflections are made on the left is doubly paradoxical, given that battles for gender equality, civil rights, and LGBTQ community claims are a founding part of the DNA of the center-left and the PD. And the secretariat is precisely a concentration of those categories that the PD officially defends: women, homosexuals, young people. Yet it is precisely when ideas become reality that the short circuit triggers.
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The curious thing is that these prejudices are mainly within Schlein’s majority. “They thought they could use her,” explains a Democrat, “but instead they found themselves marginalized, poorly tolerated, not consulted.” Is it possible that she decides on her own, with her own mind? Not only that. “They accuse her of having no sense of the party, of its history, of the dynamics.” Of not understanding how the party machine works, of being an amateur. The truth, it is said among the Democrats, is that when Schlein came out accusing the establishment of being against her, she was mainly thinking of them, those in her majority. The noble fathers, former ministers, former secretaries, former everything but still determined to dictate the course.
Who has always denounced the existence of a cross-cutting sexism, well rooted even on the left, is Paola Concia, former PD parliamentarian, now in Spazio Pubblico, the new formation founded by Pina Picierno. She tells Libero: “Sexism is evenly distributed among political forces, no one is excluded. The left is not exempt at all and it shows with Schlein, because on the left they cannot stand women who are not spokespersons for men. The spokespersons for males are absolutely welcome. But they cannot stand free and powerful women, autonomous from male leaderships. Schlein, who is a woman of power, is continuously questioned for this simple reason. Don’t be fooled by left-wing feminists (by feminists in general).” Concia also points to another contradiction: “On the left, they love to describe women as victims, which naturally exist, and it is right to fight violence against women, make no mistake, something I have done for a lifetime.” But be careful, she says, because sometimes “it is a way to make them feel submissive and always in need of protection.” Not by chance “those who want to emancipate themselves from male protection are frowned upon. For me,” Concia concludes, “the great challenge is to free women from protections.” Protections from husbands, but also from the big shots, the bosses, those who know it all. Schlein is trying. And, for this, she pays.
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