Tribune. I fell asleep feeling ashamed.
Shame of Nicolas Hulot’s reaction to the accusations of sexual assault contained in the report of the program “Special Envoy” [diffusée jeudi 25 novembre sur France 2]. I am ashamed for him and I tell myself that it is a shame. May we, women, young girls, little girls, be summoned, by the law of silence which reigned in society until #metoo, and which still rages, to let the poison of shame close in on us that colonizes us when we are victims of sexual predators, and it is again us who bear for them the shame to which they have no access.
I am ashamed that Nicolas Hulot preempted the media space to reverse perspectives and take the role of victim. His indignity, his cowardice, his posture, these are the real ones “Dirt”. Not only towards women who denounce brutal acts, but towards all women, especially those who take their courage, their wounds and their apprehensions with both hands to expose the bruised intimacy in the public space. Not because they suffer from the excess of narcissism that descends on our contemporaneity, but by moral coherence and integrity, with the sole aim of advancing society and revising the acceptability thresholds to zero tolerance. gender-based dominance and sexual violence.
I fell asleep feeling ashamed and woke up feeling disgusted.
The word of women is not “sacred”
It’s ugly, a human who does not take his responsibilities. It is odious someone who not only does not have the courage to meet himself, to face face to face with his conscience and to ask for forgiveness, but who gets bogged down in violence. Nicolas Hulot has shown that he did not have the slightest disposition for empathy to welcome the feelings of women who express their trauma and their solitary navigation in society, in charge of this inexpressible “knowledge” of an oppressor to whom. life offered all the spotlight, smiles and support, letting those who would deign to challenge the myth sink into an ever thicker shadow …
And what has tormented me since yesterday is the shock of Nicolas Hulot against the release of speech on gender violence. By repeating to Elise Lucet that the voice of women would have become “Sacred”, he insinuated that she was henceforth untouchable and that she could carry within her the insult, the indiscriminate accusation, the trial of intention, in a word all the injustice which is precisely what this liberated word seeks to fight . This rhetorical reversal is extremely perverse.
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