Azzolina: 'Sexist phrases in a textbook, vergonose'

"Those sentences are simply shameful." So the Minister of Education, Lucia Azzolina, replies to the ANSA agency on the sentences in a textbook for the schools of the youngest children reported in a post by the deputy Alessandro Fusacchia. "We will do the necessary investigations and report the matter to the Italian Publishers Association, which we are sure will offer his collaboration to prevent such things from happening again. We must be even more vigilant on the issue of sexism," says the minister. "The school is fighting every day to educate girls and boys about respect, equality.A job that risks being frustrated if we don't all pay the same due attention to the messages that are transmitted ", clarified the Minister of Education. When asked how, given that it is the schools that choose, independently, the textbooks , the Ministry will be able to do something, Azzolina replies: "That sentences like those are written in a textbook is very serious. We will certainly do the necessary investigations and report the matter to the Italian Publishers Association, which we are sure will offer your collaboration to prevent such things from happening again. We need to be even more vigilant on the subject of sexism. Today we are talking about a textbook, but these things happen every day on social networks, where women are continually attacked for how they dress, make up, are verbally attacked, even and especially if they are public figures ".

"Rossella is so beautiful that she looks like an angel, while her sister is so ugly that no boy is worthy of a glance."  Thus begins the complaint on Fb by Alessandro Fusacchi a, father of a little girl. "This is something to make even the most hardened liberal want to invoke censorship," writes the MP. Fusacchia talks about two recently released books, both for boys. In the first, a school text, the sentences must be concluded by understanding which is the correct second part. "I went out without an umbrella ..." ends with "... so I got wet". "So no one uses it anymore, but let's say it's okay, it fits," Fusacchia observes. And then the sentence follows: "Lucia is too fat ..." and the only possible combination is the phrase that ends with "... to wear a miniskirt". The MP is rightly appalled. Fusacchia, ex Europa +, leader of movimenta, is also working on a bill on stereotypes in school books.