They line up in front of a courthouse in southeastern France, from morning to evening, and have gathered in the thousands in cities across the country. They hold signs reading, “one rape every six minutes,” “not all men but always a man,” and “giving in is not consenting.”
They chant: “Rapist we see you, victim we believe you.”
Women across France are rallying in support of Gisèle Pelicot, a 72-year-old reluctant icon whose husband is on trial in the city of Avignon for systematically drugging her and inviting dozens of men, 50 of whom are now his co-defendants, into their home to rape her over nearly a decade.
The shocking case has sparked what many women in France call a long-overdue reckoning over “rape culture” and systemic sexism in the way the judicial system handles sexual violence.
Women are trash, two different ones have raped me specifically and the treatment I get from women is “men are trash.” Fuck y’all right back then howboutdat?
(Edit: Well now that the OP’s “men are trash” has been removed by the mods I feel comfortable admitting that I do not actually feel that all women are trash, I was simply trying to make a point to that commenter and those who share the viewpoint that my gender is one homogenous hivemind and are solely “trash,” the point being that it’s an equally useless and inflammatory generalization regardless of which gender is supposedly “all trash.” It’s just easier to see when it’s said about “you” for some it seems.
In reality, there are both good and bad people of every race, creed, ethnicity, gender, and just about every other metric people often use to separate us into little groups and file us away in our little boxes we better not stray out of. “Men” are no more “singularly quantifiable as trash” than women, POC, etc. To get to people who are 100% trash by group, you have to whittle it down to “rapists” or “human trafficking people” or something where their decisions and actions have shown them to be bad, being born with a penis or a vagina is simply not enough information to qualify an individual or group as “trash.”
I hope I live to see the day where we can stop pretending that this issue is a gendered one. While one gender may experience it more than another at its core that isn’t the issue, the issue is victim VS abuser and the longer we deny that the longer we’ll keep fighting about “men matter too” “nuh uh they’re only 4%” until the goddamn cows come home.)
Also it’s current year, if you genuinely still believe “men are trash” literally means every man is a rapist, you’re just stupid or wilfully misinterpreting it. How about you actually try engaging with feminists with some good faith next time, rather than pretending we’re the scum of the earth for not catering to men 24/7
No I think it means “men are trash” which happens to be just as idiotic as “always a man.” Thanks for fucking playing, goodbye.
All those words just to backpedal on your obvious sexism and keep whining about women shouldn’t be protesting against rape. I have nothing nice to say to you, so I’ll just block you and be very happy I never have to see trash like you again :3
Women should absolutely protest rape, without excusing woman abusers and erasing male victims of women (of which I happen to be one if you haven’t been paying attention.)
Block yourself, fool.