Greta Thurnberg, 16, subjected to outrageous claims she’s ‘not sexy enough’ by French left wing ‘intellectuals’
TEEN campaigner Greta Thunberg has been verbally attacked by elderly French left-wing intellectuals who say she’s “not sexy enough”.
Arrogant octogenarian Bernard Pivot dismissed the 16-year-old climate activist as a “furious Swede” while another intellectual, Michel Onfray, compared her to a “silicon doll”.
Their taunts were reported in The Sunday Times, after the campaigner said that she could not understand why adults and world leaders would mock children and teens for acting on science.
Philosopher and author Onfray, 60, dubbed her a “cyborg” before sneering at fellow young climate activists as a “herd of sheep bleating the catechism inculcated in them by adults”.
He wrote: “She makes you think of those silicon dolls heralding the end of humanity, the post-human era.
“She has the face, age, sex and body of a cyborg of the third millennium, her envelope is neutral, she is, alas, where mankind is heading.”
Pivot, the 84-year-old chairman of the panel that awards France’s prestigious Goncourt Prize for fiction, creepily referred to her while comparing the sexual merits of girls from Sweden, England and France.
He said: “In my generation, boys would run after les petites Anglaises or les petites Suédoises: they had a reputation for being less stuck-up than French girls.
“But I can imagine adolescent me being scared stiff of Greta Thunberg.”
Some of his followers on Twitter approved of his comments, saying they also didn’t find her attractive.
But one disgusted person slammed Pivot as a “fat, misogynist pig”.
And TV journalist Francois Beaudonnet pointed out that he was attacking “an autistic adolescent” – on her Twitter account, Thunberg says she’s an “environmental activist with Asperger’s”.
Her Asperger’s was similarly derided by another philosopher, Pascal Bruckner, 70, who said Thunberg was flaunting it “like a title of nobility”.
He also said she has a “scary” face.
Fellow 70-year-old philosopher Alain Finkielkraut, recommended people against “bowing to a 16-year-old child” as “there are better things to be done”.
We’ve become too loud for people to handle so people want to silence us.
Greta Thunberg
When asked about US President Donald Trump and others – mainly older men – who have mocked her, the activist said they likely feel their world view and interests are being threatened by climate activism.
She said at a rally in Montreal last Friday: “We’ve become too loud for people to handle so people want to silence us.
“We should also take that as a compliment.”
In an apparent sarcastic jibe at Thunberg following her haranguing of world leaders at the UN climate summit, Trump tweeted: “She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. So nice to see!”
Emmanuel Macron also weighed in last week, warning that her “radical” stance risked “depressing a generation”.
GROWN-UPS ‘MOCKING’
The French president and his ministers made the comments at the summit, after she singled out France for failing to do enough to tackle global warming.
The activist said on Friday that she could not “understand why grown-ups would choose to mock children and teenagers for just communicating and acting on the science when they could do something good instead.
“We will do everything in our power to stop this crisis from getting worse even if that means skipping school or work.
“The people have spoken. And we will continue to speak until our leaders listen and act.
“We are the change and change is coming.”
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau hailed her as “the voice of a generation, of young people who are calling on their leaders to do more and do better”.
Hundreds of thousands of protesters have gathered in cities around the world to express their fears about the impact of global warming on the younger generation.