No direct link exists between that result and the dramatic Dominique Strauss-Kahn scandal in New York, but in the immediate aftermath of DSK’s arrest, Italian women and young voters decisively mobilized to defeat Berlusconi’s party (led in Milan, ironically, by a woman). These voters could no longer stand the combination of machismo and vulgarity that had once served so well the man Italian humorists now call “Berlus-Kahn.”
贝卢斯科尼阵营的溃败与国际货币基金组织前总裁斯特劳斯-卡恩在纽约的离奇性丑闻本无直接联系，但在后者被捕之后，意大利的女性和年轻选民当即动员起来反对贝卢斯科尼阵营（讽刺的是该阵营的米兰市长恰好是位女性）。她们再也无法忍受这种大男子主义和粗鄙言行的结合体，即便这些元素曾被如今意大利漫画家称为“贝卢斯-卡恩”的那个男人玩得出神入化。