Gabriella Greison, the physics chosen by the University of Messina as a godmother of the ceremony for delivery of the degree diplomas held yesterday at the Antico Theater in Taormina, was in the last 24-36 hours at the center of a “case” linked to the clothing chosen for a social video in which he announced his intervention in Messina. Physics and popularizer was targeted on social networks by some users for wearing a summer dress considered “too low” during his announcement on Facebook. Greison responded to controversy with lucidity and irony: “There is no dress code for dignity”. It was the same physics that told everything. “Summary for those who weren’t there. Yesterday I made a video, while I said I was leaving to go for the godmother to the delivery of the degrees to the Taormina Theaterand I had a fresh sculpted dress, because there were 44 degrees. It seems it was a scandal. Ah, and in the video I spoke of freedom, choices, courage and future. Not of summer sales from Zara. I replied to some indignant messages (here less than in other social networks). Now, with what probability I didn’t realize that I had that dress, and I still made a video to share with you a nice moment the result of my work and my study? Spoiler: 0%. When they asked me to make the godmother at the most beautiful degree ceremony in Italy, they did not say “I also bring a rigid collar and a moralist of the 50s in the handbag with you”, right? I brought my voice, my brain and a nice speech to keep everyone glued, and I started with a summer green dress that put me joy, and put it even to who I had around. And we are in 2025. That is: the world burns, the glaciers melt, artificial intelligence reads us in thought … and does you upset a woman who speaks of science with a nice décolleté? But seriously? What has troubled you is not the dress. It is the fact that a woman can speak of quantum physics without remembering a man, and therefore without asking for permission. That can climb on a stage, explain the wave function and Schrödinger, and in the meantime have the boobs. Oops. There is no dress code for dignity. And if you are looking for decency in a centimeter of fabric, instead of in the content of the words, I recommend an experiment: try to use the brain and position yourself in the current year, with all the struggles that have been made by those before me. It’s hot, but it still works. Question: do you think, how were the thousands of girls who graduated yesterday? So are they precluded their scientific career? Meanwhile, I post this photo with one of the hundreds of selfies that the girls and boys asked me at the end of my speech. To you who do the moralists, ask them? PS: today I recommend you read “Six women who have changed the world” ». And he then concluded: «In 2025 a beautiful woman can talk about quantum physics, excite an audience, and choose alone what to get. Yes, even if it is disclosed. Yes, even if you distract you. It’s called cultural shock “.
The University of Messina will also take position: “I believe I interpret the will of those who spoke at the Taormina ceremony – wrote the Spastari ringer – in thanking Dr. Gabriella Greison for the splendid intervention. His words offered a profound and original vision of what is our timeof the path of maturation that girls and boys are called to face and of the creative spirit with which the future must be thought. He also wanted to pay homage to our land, with exciting references. We can only express solidarity for the sexist comments received by those who have no tools to understand the thickness of the person and the importance of the messages they convey. From those who, anchored to a desuetic and anti -historical culture, continue to use its ways and expressive codes ».