VSFive years after #metoo, while the debate ignites around the case of Julien Bayou, accused by his main competitor within the Greens of having morally broken his ex-companion, some are already worried about having given in too much to the feminists. If everyone agreed to condemn the rapist, now women are attacking don Juans. “A little cowardice and a lot of immaturity does not make you a follower of “psychological violence” », wrote, on Twitter, a woman who had a relationship with the former national secretary of EELV now retired from office.
Five years after #metoo, the debate is finally resting in exactly the same terms as in the famous forum on the freedom to annoy. “Rape is a crime. But insistent or clumsy flirting is not a crime, nor is gallantry a macho aggression., wrote a collective of one hundred women. What is the limit to set in the denunciation of male behavior? The question comes back today as yesterday.
Obviously, the cursor of suffering denounced by women is moving at breakneck speed. #metoo was already an impressive slider change. In October 2017, millions of voices were raised to say that violence against women was not limited to the most visible violence, that of street or war rape, mutilation and male control of the body. women, but could also take the form of hidden and insidious violence. Because, basically, what caused such a shock in the Weinstein affair? It was seen as natural for Hollywood’s top producer to be a ladies’ man and for actresses to flock to sleep with him, out of admiration or ambition. But society has discovered that this certainty has masked systematized rapes and sexual assaults.
Relationship of ascendancy of man over woman
By the resonance of the hashtag #metoo on social networks, it then appeared that, in all the configurations where there was a relationship of ascendancy of the man over the woman or the children, this violence developed. The family, the Church, the worlds of sport, the media or politics. No environment has been spared. Awareness has advanced faster than ever, but not without resisting forces. In reality, how many of these powerful men have actually been removed from circles of power?
It’s that something disturbs in these words which are freed. Of course, rape is condemned by all. But the women’s testimonies stir up a deeper malaise, revealing situations that are always complex. Sexist and sexual violence does not come out of nowhere, just as it cannot be reduced to the isolated acts of a few unbalanced people. They develop in a system where the relationship between man and woman is most often established for the benefit of the man, to very different degrees, from within the home to in social and professional life.
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