Brava, Gisele Pelicot.

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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/07/13/rape-survivor-gisele-pelicot-legion-honour-france/

'Gisèle Pelicot will receive the Légion d’honneur, France’s highest civic order, for her bravery in the fight against sexual violence.
Ms Pelicot, 72, became a figurehead for the global feminist struggle after waiving her anonymity in the trial of Dominique Pelicot, her former husband, and 50 other defendants who were accused of drugging and raping her repeatedly over the course of a decade.
At the time, Ms Pelicot’s lawyer told the court that she had waived her anonymity so that her perpetrators be known publicly, insisting that “shame must change sides” in sexual violence cases, and her image became famous worldwide.'

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That's wonderful!
Please, Valeriekat, in some intangible, symbolic way, represent us all there in person today in our admiration of GP

She's having to go to court again today because one of her rapists (telegraph has put that term in quotation marks), Husamettin Dogan, is claiming he was actually duped by her husband and continuing his appeal.

www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdx2d9lynk1o

I can’t even imagine.

Fingers crossed they increase his sentence as a result.

Scummy scum.

Gisele is an utter hero.

This is great to hear

Saluting you Gisele. Thank you for your courage on behalf of women everywhere.

"Everyone would have understood if she hadn't come because, well, she is trying to resume a normal life. But she feels she needs to be there and has a responsibility to be there until the end of the proceedings."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg4l80gz7eo

I've just read this

Into the light | Julia Molony | The Critic Magazine https://share.google/feWZ92O2zjJY13qmc

Wasn't sure which thread to put it on but this one seemed appropriate. She deserves to be celebrated.

This excerpt from the article struck me

By the end of her book we almost feel sorry for her abusers, condemned to an existence of spiritual bankruptcy and relational poverty. It is they, ultimately, who are dehumanised and diminished by sexual violence.

These men, and those like them, by their actions don't see their victims (mostly women) as anything except as something to be used for their pleasure. If our agency is recognised at all, it's only because denying it increases their thrill. 'Dehumanised and diminished', it's not just shame that has changed sides.