Giselle Pelicot with new partner and HBO film crew.

[Redheadedstepchild]

Paris Match reports:

https://www.parismatch.com/actu/soc

I don't know what to think here.

I hope she's happy and everything is going well but the media industry can be pretty brutal and I think, in my silly way, that she might be laying herself open for more exploitation.

She's all over the French tabloids now. This can't be a good thing, surely?

Maybe she needs the money! Why would you judge this woman?

Why are you judging her?
I think good on her, she deserves some happiness.

I think someone who has the strength to do what she did can handle a few tabloid reporters.

I think she’s brilliant. She’s taking her victimhood and used it to expose men who had hoped her shame would protect them.

I think the more we hear her story the less likely it is to happen to anyone else.

What do you mean? That sounds like you're criticising her. She's entitled to tell her story.

She strikes me as pretty kick ass. I doubt she needs your judgement faux concern

I don’t think anyone, absolutely anyone, gets to dictate how she should feel based on how they imagine they would feel if they were her.

I’ve actually just reported this thread. I’m not sure it’s been posted in good faith.

She chose to have her name released and the unfortunate impact of that is the tabloids who will no doubt go after her because they know there will be people who will buy their papers

but she has chosen to formally tell her own story and she is living somewhere small and the good thing about small communities is that it can be very protective

You have absolutely zero idea what you’d want or how you’d feel.

Abuse like that thrives on secrecy and often on shame. More power to her for refusing anonymity and holding her head high.

Presumably she’s been very careful on her choice of new partner.

It can if you’re wanting to tell your story instead of just what the media etc did last time without your input. People cope with trauma in different ways, this maybe a good thing with her.

Good for her. She's an absolute goddamn heroine. Why the hell should she let that sack of human filth steal even more from her than he already has? There's no right way to feel after trauma, but if she can frame it as something done to her and not who she is, and move past it so she can return to a life worth living while he rots in the cell where he belongs, then all power to her.

It is absolutely none of our business. But I wish her all the joy imaginable in her future, because God knows she deserves it. She has changed the culture in France due to her courage.

I mean I guess if I went through that I would either be holed up at home crying with a therapist on speed dial or think “someone's going to pay me a lot of money and this nice man seems to quite like me, I’m going to live a little I fucking deserve it.”

I can see how you would want to do either. I think it must have been really strange for her, she was raped so many times but literally doesn’t remember it. It must feel utterly surreal. So I wouldn’t be surprised if what may look strange from the outside is perfectly coherent for her.

If someone told me this had happened to me I would be utterly destroyed by the betrayal and furious with all those men but I think I would struggle to place myself there fully as I hadn’t consciously experienced it, like it happened to another version of me. Thats probably all very poorly worded but maybe the way she sees herself doesn’t line up with how people assume victims feel.

Either way I hope she makes shit tons of cash and that her new fella is a good un.

You're aware that different women can have different experiences? Also, you're imagining how she's feeling. (I very much hope.)

Perhaps she feels an element of elation?

She's a very determined woman, hopefully she's able to enjoy a new relationship.

What, you mean something worse could happen to her than discovering she's been horribly betrayed by her husband and repeatedly assaulted many times over at his behest?

She's earned the right to do whatever she wants now. She has done us all a massive service in going public with her case. If she is in the media then I hope it keeps reminding people of the uncomfortable truth of what men can be capable of.

It's nice of you to be concerned and all. But she's a grown woman, and she has her own family and friends, and she didn't ask.

If there is literally any one woman in the world who is not a vulnerable easily exploited little wilted flower, it's this woman. How offensive .She's a fucking lioness, as her husband could tell you! Her piece of shit husband had to drug her and completely gaslight their whole family in order to exploit her. That's thankfully incredibly rare! And there's no way any of us can avoid it should our partners choose to abuse us in such a way. Why shouldn't she find happiness while she can?

How can you possibly know how you’d feel?

Ok.

How is pointing out that the op is policing Giselles actions to remain a worthy victim in the OPs eyes criticising Giselle? Unless you also agree that the OP is the authority on Giselles worthiness as a victim?

She’s been through a hell few could even imagine.

I am all for her a. Doing as she wishes and b. Making some money out of it.

I find it staggering that anyone would even say they know what they'd be doing in her shoes.

None of us do. Thankfully.

And that there's an air of judgement that she's not doing the 'right' thing is really really vile. Women really cannot win with some folks. No matter how bad their experiences and how brave they are.

@Redheadedstepchild
According to a report in the Guardian last week she is suing Paris Match for invasion of privacy with those photos.
I think she can look after herself as far as the tabloids go