who are the 100 men who signed the platform in support of the movement?

This Tuesday, April 30, 2024, our colleagues from the magazine SHE publish a column by Michel Broué, a mathematician and companion of Anouk Grinberg, in which he notably provides his support for the movement #MeToo five days after the overturning of Harvey Weinstein’s conviction for rape by the New York Court of Appeal. While the movement has notably contributed to the liberation of women’s voices in the world of cinema but also in the medical field, 100 men from the world of the seventh art have shown their support for #MeToo by becoming a signatory of this column initially published in the columns of our colleagues.

“The practice of equality is desirable, it takes away neither freedom nor pleasure but increases them”

“In the few years since the #MeToo revolution has spread, we have understood how male behavior sometimes considered harmless was experienced by women for what it was: abuse. We were faced with the systemic nature of this violence and its links with other forms of discrimination such as racism. Their ravages in terms of disorders and pathologies among the victims have finally appeared.

Contrary to what we sometimes read, we do not think that “we are attacking men”. Becoming aware of the experience of others, their perception of power struggles dating back thousands of years, is interesting and a source of openness. The practice of equality is desirable, it takes away neither freedom nor pleasure but increases them; it beautifies relationships. Is it not obvious that one person’s pleasure is not worth more than another’s dignity? Those who proclaim “we can no longer say or do anything today” confuse freedom of expression and privileges, and imply that the mistreatment of victims suited them.”

“We refuse to recognize ourselves in this hegemonic masculinity”

“It is power and its instinct for domination which attacks, as always, as everywhere, the most vulnerable. We refuse to recognize ourselves in this hegemonic masculinity. For example, having to reserve gentleness and care for the feminine gender is absurd: a man cries, a man loves, a man can be upset.

Hearing “it was a different time, we didn’t realize it” is unacceptable: “aggression”, “humiliation”, “rape” referred to the same behaviors a few years ago. They have always been destructive to the victims. It is revolting that theater and cinema serve as a cover for abuses that have nothing to do with art. It is revolting that everywhere, including in hospitals or universities, privileged places of openness and attention to others, some use their power to degrade and attack. It is revolting to use one’s prestige, whatever it may be, to abuse the admiration it arouses. The aim is to spare more than half of humanity from serious attacks. To build a better, more intelligent, more respectful, more egalitarian world. We would be honored and enriched.”

Who are the 100 men who signed the platform in support of #MeToo?

• Manuel Alduy, cinema director
• Mathieu Amalric, director and actor
• Swann Arlaud, actor
• Jacques Audiard, director
• Frédéric Bélier Garcia, director of La Commune,
• Jean Bellorini, director, director of the Théâtre National Populaire
• Karim Bensalah, director
• Xavier Blanc, mathematician
• David Bobée, director and director of the TDN
• Jérôme Bonnel, director
• Nicolas Bouchaud, actor and director
• Michel Broué, mathematician
• Fabio Caldironi, director of photography
• Maximilien Cazayous, physicist, dean of Faculty of Sciences
• David Chausse, actor and director
• Antoine Chambert-Loir, mathematician
• Nessim Chikhaoui, director
• Michel Christolhomme, president of the Association Pour Que l’Esprit Vive – Fait & Cause Gallery
• Yann-Joël Collin, actor, director
• Loïc Corbery, actor and director
• Hervé Courtaigne, gallery owner
• Matthieu Cord, AI professor
• Matthieu Crucianni, co-director Comédie de Colmar
• Simon Delétang, director, director of the Lorient theater
• Cyril Dion, author and director
• Nasser Djemai, author, director, director of the Ivry neighborhood theater
• Éric Elmosnino, actor
• Christophe D’Esposti, actor and director
• Éric Fassin, professor of sociology and gender studies
• Auguste Foldi, painter and engraver
• Marcial Di Fonzo Bo, actor, director of the Quai, Angers
• Alain Françon, director
• Alain Fromager, actor
• Laurent Gaudé, writer
• Jean-Marie Gigon, author – director
• Jacques Remy Girerd, director of animated films
• Cédric Gourmelon, director, director of the Comédie de Béthune
• Alban Guyon, actor
• Philippe Hardouin, President of the Cérès Franco association
• Julien Haroche, doctor and university professor
• Serge Hazanavicus, actor and screenwriter
• Sylvain Jacques, actor and composer
• Daniel Jeanneteau, director, director of the T2G Théâtre de Gennevilliers
• Thomas Jolly, director
• Édouard Kaminski, geophysicist, president of Paris Cité University
• Sam Karmann, actor and director
• Reda Kateb, actor
• Simon Daniel Kipman, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
• Salim Kissari, actor
• Christian Lacroix, designer
• Marc Lainé, director of La Comédie de Valence
• Adam Laloum, pianist
• Benoît Lambert, director, director of the Comédie de Saint-Etienne
• Éric Lartigau, director
• Guillaume Laurant, screenwriter
• Guillaume Lauras, editor
• Charles Lesur, cinematographer
• Olivier Letellier, director, director of Tréteaux de France
• Philippe Madral, writer
• Thierry Magnier, author and editor
• Mathieu Marie, actor
• Jean-Louis Martinelli, director
• Joris Mathieu, director, director of New Generation Theater
• Emmanuel Meirieu, director
• Eric Métayer, actor and director
• Tommy Milliot, director, director National Drama Center Besançon
• Jean-Louis Mingalon, journalist
• Marc Missonnier, film and series producer
• Charles Morillon, actor
• Paul Morin, director of photography
• El Mouhoub Mouhoud, economist, president of Paris Dauphine University
• Emmanuel Mouret, director
• Gilles Naudin, gallery owner
• Emmanuel Noblet, actor
• Marc Paquien, director
• Philippe Pascot, writer
• Ulysse Payet, producer
• Frédéric Pierrot, actor
• Louis Julien Petit, director
• Ernest Pignon-Ernest, visual artist
• Edwy Plenel, journalist
• Claude Ponti, author and illustrator
• Christophe Rauck, director, director of the Théâtre Nanterre Amandiers
• Serge Regourd, emeritus law professor, elected Occitanie culture
• Robin Renucci, director of the Auction, Marseille
• Tristan Robin, actor
• Daniel de Roulet, writer
• Raphaël Rouquier, mathematician
• Elias Sanbar, writer, former Palestinian ambassador to UNESCO
• Didier Sandre, actor and director
• Guillaume Schiffman, director of photography
• Abdelwaheb Sefsaf, author and director, director of the Théâtre de Sartrouville
• Abderrahmane Sissako, director
• Jean-François Sivadier, director
• Galin Stoev, director Théâtre de la Cité Toulouse
• Benjamin Stora, historian
• Jérôme Tessier, poet
• Martin Tronquart, director and actor
• Henri Trubert, editor
• Nicolas Vray, director and assistant director
• Jérôme Yelnik, Emeritus Inserm Researcher

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