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She has often lashed out against the use of vulgar, low and populist language. In a TV show, firmly and without ideology, she defended Elly Schlein<\/a> against the mayor of Trieste Roberto Dipiazza, who called her a “hag” in a post on social media.<\/p>\n \u201cWe enter again into the big issue I was talking about earlier,\u201d Salis said. “This is not just about sexism. The point is that if Farfallina35 tells me I’m a mindless Barbie you think: whatever, social media has given millions of people a voice and this is the result. But if the people who attack you in the same way have administrative responsibility or otherwise represent the Republic you expect another approach. If you are a mayor, a senator, a congressman, you don’t offend me because you call me Barbie or a hag, you offend me because you represent the Republic, because you have accepted the responsibility that that role requires. And the way you relate yourself in society has to change necessarily.”<\/p>\n Vanity Fair Italia:<\/em> What was it like, after the famous concert in Matteotti Square in Genoa, to wake up the next day and find yourself transformed into a planetary meme?<\/strong><\/p>\n Silvia Salis<\/em>: Incredible and funny. But, I’m honest, these things have to stay in the background. As with the shoe shot, I didn’t bother to make denials or comments because a mayor who represents an institution can only lose by slipping into this slime where everything is the opposite of what it should be. It takes detachment. And then, you know, even in the face of the most insulting personal attacks, I see people who don’t know me asking to look at content\u2014physical appearance, my private life. I would never attack another woman on these elements. There is a party that recently published a picture of me in a bathing suit with my son in my arms without even obscuring his face. This is further than anyone should go. To make a long story short: insults qualify those who make them, not those who suffer them.<\/p>\n In Italy, there is a lot of discussion about whether you are center, center-left, or left. I’ve tried to report the facts of your performance as mayor in these first ten months. Point by point, I would like your comment.<\/strong><\/p>\n All right, I’m ready.<\/p>\n You registered two mothers at the registry office despite the limitations and propaganda of the current government.<\/strong><\/p>\n Look, it is not a concession but simply something that a ruling allowed. I was not magnanimous. I allowed a right. Besides, these children, these girls of homogenous couples exist regardless of whether the municipality signs or not. The City’s signature allows the protections to be given to these children and their families. I’ve always said it: I’m a mother, I’m Catholic, I’m married, I’m heterosexual but I don’t think mine is the only model or that it’s better than the others. The municipality is secular, the administration is secular, the country is secular. And I say this as a Catholic.<\/p>\n