Sexist, necessarily sexist. On February 10, at the National Assembly, the Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt asks Sandrine Rousseau not to “harangue” him. The response of the ecologist bursts out: it is a “sexist” attack. Is it this verb that poses a problem or the simple fact of being challenged? The Larousse confirms that haranguing obviously does not contain the slightest innuendo linked to gender. And it is quite common, we believe to have noted it these days, that the tone is lively in the hemicycle. This is the case at this moment, as evidenced by the minutes of the session.
Olivier Dussopt: I have noted several contradictions, Ms. Rousseau, you repeat that public policies are needed, but I don’t know what you are talking about.
Sandrine Rousseau: That’s the whole problem! It’s your problem !
Olivier Dussopt: You are not presenting your proposals – apart from that of rejecting our action.
Sandrine Rousseau: It’s fine, it’s fine!
Olivier Dussopt: I didn’t harangue you.
Sandrine Rousseau: It’s pure sexism!
Olivier Dussopt: I was simply saying, Madam MP, that I understood better the arguments presented calmly than the harangues.
Sandrine Rousseau: What sexism!
On the evening of her election, the same Sandrine Rousseau had already confused mastery of French and feminism by launching: “Bravo to you for the magnificent campaign that you have done and done”. The example comes from above. In the locker room of the Blues, after the defeat in the final of the World Cup, Emmanuel Macron had dropped an unforgettable: “Thank you to those who will perhaps stop the jersey” (statistically, the players of the men’s team are rather males…)
Political leaders were already criticized for speaking a dead language, incomprehensible to the population. Here is the double punishment, with the forbidden words. The French language is taken hostage, victim of ideological prisms. The new national secretary of EELV, Marine Tondelier, thus considers that the title of a press article (“Mélissa Camara, Sandrine Rousseau’s bridgehead”) is “racist”. The expression has nothing to do with it, it has never been used with such a connotation. But it turns out that Mélissa Camara is a black woman. Silence in the ranks, ideology imposes its law, its language.