The Secretary of State for Social, Solidarity and Environmental Economy gives an interview on women’s freedom and feminism and Playboy gives her the cover. Not possible, in full social crisis on pensions. The opposition also arises
In its glorious history Playboy had so far hosted texts by John Steinbeck, Jack Kerouac, Vladimir Nabokov and also by the feminist icon Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid’s Talebut never the photographs of a minister in charge. And some of his colleagues didn’t like it: crazy thing. Not possible, in full social crisis on pensions. Or again: We hoped, unfortunately in vain, that it was an April fool.
Marlne Schiappa, State Secretary for the Social Economysupportive and environmental after having long dealt with gender equality, released a 12-page interview on women’s freedom and feminismpolitics and literature to the French edition of the journal founded by Hugh Hefner.
What is striking, and which has caused strong controversy in France, is that the forty-year-old Parisian of Corsican origin left photographing in more or less suggestive poses, albeit dressed in a long white dress. And despite all the illustrious collaborations, they always have been the photos count the most for Playboy. As Hugh Hefner himself once said to his models: Thank you, girls, I owe you everything. Without you I would have had only one literary magazine.
On the cover, which will be released on April 8, the deputy minister stretches her gaze towards the horizon under the famous mast adapted with the blue, white and red colors of the French flag.
Schiappa’s entourage explains: We have always claimed that we talk to everyone and have unconventional communication. After all, this is one of the reasons for the numerous support enjoyed by the secretary of state. Marlne Schiappa is the only one in government capable of responding to a magazine like Playboy, and the first politician to appear on its cover, while talks about the freedom of women in Afghanistan and remember that France defends the right to abortion but also LGBT+ rights on the international scene.
The editor of the French version, Jean-Christophe Florentin says that Marlne Schiappa is the most Playboy-compatible politician because she is closely linked to women’s rights and understood that it is no longer a magazine for old male chauvinists but on the contrary it can be a tool of the feminist cause. The publisher adds that Playboy is now a quarterly mook (halfway between book and magazine) of almost 300 pages where there are still some undressed girls but not the essentials.
Marlne Schiappa’s commitment to women’s freedom is known, and in the past she wrote erotic books under the pseudonym Marie Minelli, causing little scandal. What she is contested this time above all questionable timingat a time when the government under attack in parliament and especially in the streets of France.
The criticisms come from executive colleagues (in this case anonymous), but also from the extreme right and extreme left opposition. Marine Le Pen recalls that a few days ago in the midst of the street clashes, President Emmanuel Macron gave an interview to the children’s newspaper Pif, and says that at this point everything is allowed, ministers feel free to do anything. Same objection as Jean-Luc Mlenchon: In a country where the president talks about Pif and his minister Schiappa about Playboy, then they say the problem is the opposition. The France of numbers.
There are also those who suspect a diversion maneuver by Schiappa to divert attention away from the investigation into the two million euros of the Marianne fund, collected after the killing of professor Samuel Paty and used in a rather opaque way. She does not let herself be disassembled and replies to her detractors as follows: We defend the right of women to dispose of their bodies anytime, anywhere. In France, women are free. Retrogrades and hypocrites get over it.
April 2, 2023 (change April 2, 2023 | 07:59)
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