Guillaume Meurice, Gaël Faye, Vincent Lindon… males take motion in opposition to “male domination” after the Mazan rapes | EUROtoday

“SSeven years after the start of #MeToo, where are we now? This is one of the questions, among the many, posed by the letter published by Morgan N. Lucas this Saturday, September 21, in Release. The essayist and therapist, a trainer on issues of gender diversity and sexuality, proposes to deliver a “highway map in opposition to male domination”. “The Pelicot affair proved to us that male violence isn’t a matter of monsters, it’s a matter of males, of Mr. Everyman”, he explains, referring to the Mazan trial, “of the 51 rapists”, “the trial of masculinity”.

More than 200 male personalities have signed this letter, which takes this trial as a place to begin: the actor Gilles Lellouche, the comic Guillaume Meurice, the author Gaël Faye, the director Cyril Dion and the singers Pierre de Maere and Eddy de Pretto. “To say 'all men' is to talk about systemic violence perpetrated by all men, because all men, without exception, benefit from a system that dominates women,” he explains, calling on males to be “part of the solution.”

This “all men” resonates with the resurgence of the key phrase #notallmen on social networks. With this expression, Internet customers, largely males, intend to denounce any generalization, believing that it’s above all a person downside and never a systemic one. An concept that this letter due to this fact intends to debunk.READ ALSO Gisèle Pelicot: beginning of an iconIn this roadmap, Morgan N. Lucas outlines ten factors on which males ought to focus. Among them, “let's stop considering that women's bodies are bodies at disposal”, “let's agree to question ourselves”, “let's examine our many privileges to use them for the common good”, “let's stop perpetuating boys' clubs, protecting our male counterparts” and even “let's really listen to women when they tell us about their needs and their limits”.

“A role that should cost us”

“Let's do all this in silence, without shouting it from the rooftops, without expecting applause or congratulations,” he additionally requires. The creator of This isn’t a ebook about gender desires to encourage males to “take action, 365 days a year. It's a role that should cost us, at the very least, a little of our personal comfort.”

READ ALSO “There is rape and rape”: on the Mazan trial, a dangerous protectionMazan's trial, nevertheless, remains to be ongoing. This week was marked by a number of insufferable sequences: the Avignon Assize Court broadcast for the primary time the acts filmed by Dominique Pelicot. “Yesterday, they humiliated me, so today, I'm the one who's going to humiliate them,” Gisèle Pelicot mentioned on the listening to. Jacques C., the person within the video, didn’t admit to the rape.

Faced with these troublesome sequences, the president of the felony court docket of Vaucluse imposed that the assaults suffered by the sufferer be screened on a case-by-case foundation and within the absence of the press and the general public. The debates are alleged to be held till December.