@Logiko The offending parties literally pilled and r4p'd an old woman enough times that they managed to take 20,000 photos just of her alone. I don't even know how this is even a possibility but this entire incident is almost too hard to believe...mainly due to the vast majority of date r4p cases (or induced by sedatives) happen to women of a certain age range.
Wtf?!
It was during 10 years so they had the time. When you know that some people can take hundreds of photos of themselves in a few minutes, it's not so hard to believe.
But yeah.. I've never seen a rape case so horrible. And this is precisely why it's making such a ruckus in France at the moment.
Just to tell you the real size of the problem, the lawyers of the men are using hardcore rape culture rethoric. They literally scream at Pélicot sometimes
- When a famous celebrity, Nabilla, (reality TV star) said that she would create a fund for Gisèle Pélicot, one of the lawyer of the men (a woman) said that she should sell her plastic breasts.
- Another said used hardcore mental gymnastic coming from the rape culture to try to defend their client, implying that she is lying and was not really chemically drugged since there were signs of Pélicot having moments of semi-consciousness in the videos.
- The mayor of the Mazan (where it happened) said that it could be worse, there could have been death and children involved..
- One of the lawyer of the men, a woman again who tries to get clout from the case, send that on tiktok (note the words of the song) to mock those who were calling out her rape culture rethoric:
- One of the lawyers of the men (a man), said that there were "rapes and rapes" saying that there was rape if the man was conscious that he was doing a rape and if not, it is not rape.
- The lawyers said to G. Pelicot who was shocked that all the photos and videos were displayed in front of the audience, sayin that because she was responsible of this diffusion
- After one of the session of the trial outside. An activist screamed "shame" to the accused men. One of them replied (with public and journalists) "go on and I will rape your mother". One of the lawyers of the men laughed at that. A person present on the scene told her that there was a rape threat and the lawyer replied "yeh, well.. she deserved it"
- Before one of the session while entering the room, activist screamed "shame on you!" to the group of men... who laughed and said "all of this for us ? That's nice !"
- A lot of the men are intimidating journalist, laughing with confidence, make joke etc. They have the COMPLETE
feeling of impunity
This case is INSANE. And it is a DOUBLE PROBLEM
First: It reveals a horrible case of rape
Second : It shades an undebatable light on the impunity that men think they have and the patriarcal grip that prevent victims from seeking help in ALL the strats of the society.
And what this cases shows is that even in the WORSE case scenario. It's not even enough to wake people up. The reaction of Nameless is the demonstration that the refusal to see patriarchy is not a problem of facts and data, but ideology and power of men and their feeling of impunity to deny the experiences of women.
If this case doesn't create a change, at least minimal, in the minds of society I don't see how women will be able to create a change without going toward violence.
Imagine being a victim of rape and seeing the justice uses rape culture to defend men.. I don't know how our justice system will recover from that.