The young EELV-Nupes MP Marie-Charlotte Garin caused a sensation today in the Hemicycle, wearing an outfit that has become a symbol in the fight against sexist and sexual violence.
The deputies freshly elected to the legislative elections made their return to Parliament on Tuesday 28 June. One of them caused a sensation: Marie-Charlotte Garin. For her first day in the Hemicycle, the 26-year-old EELV-Nupes deputy chose to wear the white dress with blue flowers that Cécile Duflot wore in 2012 when she was whistled by male elected officials. At the time Minister of Housing under François Hollande, Cécile Duflot had received sexist remarks when speaking in the Hemicycle. Ten years later, at the time of #Metoo, Marie-Charlotte Garin chose to send a strong message wearing this dress which she says has ” a political value “.
A dress that has become a symbol
” Cécile Duflot had been entitled to less courteous names, in any case not worthy of the Republic and even less of this Assembly “, she said at the microphone of LCP. And to continue: As a young elected environmentalist, it is quite a symbol to be part of this transmission: we know that this dress shows that sexist and sexual violence does not stop at the doors of the hemicycle “. The deputy felt that it was necessary to dare feminism. ” It will be our responsibility, our fight, to defend a hemicycle that respects everyone and to defend the fight for women’s rights “. In addition, this dress has become a symbol in the fight against gender and sexual violence.
On this subject, The Dispatch rightly quotes Marlène Coulomb-Gully, professor at the University of Toulouse who writes in her book Sexism on the public voice (Ed. of Aube), “ women always find themselves sent back to their status as women when they are attacked when they speak out. They are sexualized by insults relating to their sex, such as the case of which Cécile Duflot was the victim, siffled in the middle of the hemicycle for her dress at the National Assembly in 2012 “.