I Don't Think a Man Now Could Get Away With Writing This Piece of Crap

I couldn't believe it when I read the translation of the "letter" by a few French women and co-signed by others, including actress Catherine Deneuve, saying women should shut the fuck up and let men sexually assault and harass them at work and elsewhere, even when it is illegal either criminally or civilly.

I don't know what French law is regarding workplace harassment and harassment in other environments, but this letter is incredibly, incredibly backwards. I doubt sexual harassment is legal in France, either. The letter is mindboggling in its vileness, in its stupidity. Shame on any woman who signed this and basically disregard the workplace rights of the vast majority of women who do not have the luxury of an extravagant lifestyle and have to earn a living.

Fuck these women, every last one of them.

In fact, #MeToo has led to a campaign, in the press and on social media, of public accusations and indictments against individuals who, without being given a chance to respond or defend themselves, are put in the exact same category as sex offenders. This summary justice has already had its victims: men who’ve been disciplined in the workplace, forced to resign, and so on., when their only crime was to touch a woman’s knee, try to steal a kiss, talk about "intimate" things during a work meal, or send sexually-charged messages to women who did not return their interest.

This frenzy for sending the "pigs" to the slaughterhouse, far from helping women empower themselves, actually serves the interests of the enemies of sexual freedom, the religious extremists, the reactionaries and those who believe — in their righteousness and the Victorian moral outlook that goes with it — that women are a species "apart," children with adult faces who demand to be protected.

Men, for their part, are called on to embrace their guilt and rack their brains for "inappropriate behavior" that they engaged in 10, 20 or 30 years earlier, and for which they must now repent. These public confessions, and the foray into the private sphere or self-proclaimed prosecutors, have led to a climate of totalitarian society.

How old are these dumb women? I know Deneuve is around 74 or 75 years of age and is a product of her time of the 1960s, but how old are the rest of them, and what is THEIR excuse if not age? Much of this "letter" reads like 1960s-style bullshit from the "sexual revolution," which didn't benefit women at all. The verbiage sounds like it comes from that era, like "puritanism."

I hope there is a major pushback on this. It is outrageous.

Update: Apparently there have been lots of denunciation over this idiotic "letter."

A group of around 30 activists, led by prominent feminist Caroline De Haas, responded on Wednesday with a scathing critique, published on France Info.

They accused the signatories of deliberately mixing "seduction, based on respect and pleasure, with violence."

"Sexual violence is not 'intensified flirting,'" they wrote. "One means treating the other as your equal, respecting their desires, whatever they may be. The other is treating them as an object at your disposal, paying no attention to their own desires, or their consent."