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Bravo Gisèle

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HerGorgeousMajestyArabellaScott · 23/10/2024 12:24

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgr2yym0nko

"I want all women who have been raped to say: Madame Pelicot did it, I can too. I don't want them to be ashamed any longer,"

"I've been told I'm brave. This isn't being brave, it's having the will and determination to change society."
"Bravery means jumping into the sea to rescue someone. I just have will and determination," she said.
"This is why I come here every day... Even if I hear unspeakable things, I am holding on because of all the men and women who are right behind me."

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Gisèle Pelicot takes stand in French mass rape trial

She tells a court she wants women who have been raped to know that "it's not for us to have shame - it's for them".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgr2yym0nko

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RapidOnsetGenderCritic · 26/11/2024 19:47

ScrollingLeaves · 25/11/2024 17:27

Who wrote this? You @RapidOnsetGenderCritic ?or were you quoting?

Not that what you say seems wrong. I think men have to deal with a lot about themselves. I once read an an account from a young woman who had had a phase of thinking she was trans. One of the things she described was what she eventually realised were the effects of testosterone - irrational irritability and strongly wanting physical expression to surges of mood, as well as some more sexual feelings that she could latch on to an orientation which was not native to her. An interesting comment from a man reading was that that is what men have to put up with:

I am a man and found a lot of your account unexpected, probably more so than a woman would have done. I also wonder if your experience with testosterone has given you a bit of an insight to some of the challenges it causes in all men and the behaviours we have to check and modify; I do wonder if it wouldn’t help many ardent feminist types to have some similar understanding.
https://lacroicsz.substack.com/p/by-any-other-name

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Yes, I wrote it and wasn't quoting anyone else. It's my considered opinion after half a century or so of being an adult male.

IwantToRetire · 16/12/2024 00:56

Well not that interested in male excuses for male behaviour, but was surprised in a good way (as so rare) by this article written by a man, about what this court case says about men.

https://inews.co.uk/opinion/gisele-pelicot-case-pornography-sexual-violence-3433130

Porn's reckoning is coming. Gisèle Pélicot's case will make sure of it

Up to 90 per cent of online pornography shows verbal, physical and sexual violence

https://inews.co.uk/opinion/gisele-pelicot-case-pornography-sexual-violence-3433130

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