France has been the subject of intense debate over the issue of sexual harassment of women in the wake of charges against the Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, published a group of women, including the famous actress Catherine Donov letter in the newspaper "Le Monde" defending the "freedom of the opposite of men for women," to respond to them Wednesday, another group of women activists wrote on the site France TV Info.
Writers, researchers and journalists ... calling for "the freedom of men against women" to reflect the movement formed following the big sex scandal involving Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein in October 2017. A group of women feminist activists What they have done is "a slap in the face of all women" and "abuse at least for victims of harassment".
The controversy began Tuesday (January 9th) with about 100 women, including French actress Catherine Donov, 74, and writers such as Catherine Mie, 69, and journalists like Elizabeth Levy, 53, Le Monde "in which men are asked to flirt with women on the grounds that extreme or cruel harassment is an essential and vital part of" sexual freedom ".
The group, including former pornographic actress and anchorwoman Brigitte Lahi, 62, described the campaign against producer Harvey Weinstein as "unruly" and that she had gone too far.
The campaign was popular with women through social networking sites by labeling "I am also". Its size has doubled as American movie stars such as Angelina Jolie, Salma Hayek, Merrill Streep and Gwyneth Paltrow joined the mainstream, which condemned the abuse of Weinstein.
But the Katrin Donov group has shirked outside the flock for mainstream public opinion. In its letter, the group also considers that the "I am _" campaign ultimately serves "the interests of the enemies of sexual freedom, religious hardliners, reactionaries and all those who regard women as being distinctly privileged or as children Adults who need protection ".
"We reject this feminist activity, which takes the form of hatred for men and sex," she said. "Men have been punished in the exercise of their profession and have been forced to resign because they have only touched a knee or They tried to misappropriate a kiss, talk about intimate things during a professional dinner, or send messages of a sexual nature to a woman who is not really interested in them. "
"Rape is a crime, but extreme or reckless courtship is not a crime," the women stressed in their letter. "Courteousness is not a male assault." They concluded that marriage and sexual abuse should not be confused.
Donov was among the defenders of Polish filmmaker Roman Polanski, who admitted in 1977 that he had sexual relations with a 13-year-old minor in the United States.
The debate raged Wednesday with the publication of a large number of women in politics or women activists commenting on social networking sites or messages in the French media. A group of 30 women led by 37-year-old activist Caroline de Haas, a former Socialist Party activist, also responded to an article in France FT.com.
"In France, hundreds of thousands of women are victims of harassment every day, and tens of thousands of victims of sexual abuse," wrote the group, "as equality between men and women progresses even as far as millimeters, Hundreds of cases of rape. "
The women who published a column in the Le Monde newspaper, the majority of whom are "used to defend child molesters or those who glorify rape," Caroline de Haas said. "They use their celebrity to mitigate the risk of sexual assault."
De Haass and her group wrote in the letter that Catherine Donov and the columnist in the Le Monde newspaper "deliberately confuse the seduction process of respect, pleasure and [sexual] violence."
