A talk show host from ‘El hormiguero’ refers to journalist Sarah Santaolalla as “half stupid, half tits” | Television

Journalist Sarah Santaolalla, a regular at the debate tables of and Cuatro, has been in the crosshairs of the media and political right for months, which he has denounced again and again on his social networks. This Wednesday he did it again on his

“I have seen a talk show host say that Felipe González was a traitor,” Pablo Motos said in surprise on the Antena 3 nighttime program about Santaolla’s statements, although without naming her. “That one who is half stupid and half tits?” joked the journalist from ABC Rosa Belmonte, in the entertainment space’s political discussion, making reference to a joke from the series, and to the discomfort and nervous laughter of the rest of the table. Motos responded that he did not remember the name of the aforementioned, which was followed by Juan del Val’s silence and Rubén Amón’s warning: “Rosa, it’s going to go viral, you know it.”

It was Santaolalla herself who shared the video on her personal account: “Last night on a ‘family’ program I was humiliated again for my physical appearance. (…) It wasn’t in an alley, it was on TV. They weren’t ants, they were rats,” she noted. “How long am I going to put up with this systematic violence by presenters, ultras or violent? My physique, my way of thinking, my way of being, my ability. Everything is up for debate, everything serves to harass me. How disgusting,” he continued in a series of tweets in a new attack on this audience-leading program on all television that .

Late in the afternoon, Belmonte herself apologized through a post on “It was spontaneous and no one knew what I was going to say, not even myself five seconds before. I apologize to whoever I offended, whoever I bothered and whoever I affected, especially because it was not my intention.”

a public body attached to the Ministry of Equality, has responded to Santaolalla’s message on the same social network stating that, given the complaints received for “the sexist treatment” of its image, it will urge the medium “to comply with the regulations on equality.”

In addition, its director has sent a letter to which EL PAÍS has had access and addressed to the general director of Atresmedia, José Antonio Antón, to “share the citizens’ discomfort” over Belmonte’s comments “that normalize contempt for women and that seek to break their public participation and silence them.” The organization recalls several laws that urge equality in the media and calls on the group to comply with them, since, if not, they warn that they will take the case to the supervisory body, the National Commission of Markets and Competition. “Attributing the aforementioned phrase to the series does not exempt both the collaborator and the direction of the program from responsibility by resorting to and sustaining messages with a high degree of sexism, which threaten the image and dignity of women,” they point out.

This is not the first time that Santaolla has pointed out direct attacks against her from her networks. , PP deputy in the Madrid Assembly, who attacked the journalist and the program with sexist attacks On everyone’s lips from Telecinco. In a discussion, the politician responded to a criticism from the journalist by alluding directly to her body: “To put it simply, your photos showing your coconuts with your neckline up to here.” And Santaolla defended herself: “This representative has used my way of dressing to attack me and my physique to humiliate me. So much violence and hatred towards women is intolerable. I await the condemnation of her party.”

reported having been threatened with death through graffiti written on the monument honoring the Thirteen Roses in the La Almudena cemetery in Madrid. “It is no coincidence: women murdered for facing fascism and not giving in. I feel real terror,” she warned.

“You learn over time. I have ended up accepting violence and hatred. I already wake up and go to bed knowing that my cell phone is going to be burning with thousands of insults. I have two paths: disappear or continue. Nobody has the right to take me away, to separate me, to expel me. Why? For denouncing the corrupt and corrupters? For saying that people deserve public health care and education? For defending human rights? The board has turned. We have stopped persecuting the bad guys and we have started chasing the normal ones”,