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@Doog_de_Jour takes a controversial stand

GrundleStiltzkinGrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,506 Standard Supporter
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In France, Some Say #MeToo Has Gone Too Far


A battle has broken out in France between campaigners against sexual harassment and a group of prominent women who argue overzealous misconduct allegations threaten the country’s embrace of sexual freedom.

Film star Catherine Deneuve and more than 100 French women this week published a letter in the newspaper Le Monde defending the lustful advances of their male compatriots, and denouncing what they call “puritanism” of the #MeToo campaign against sexual harassment that has taken root in the U.S. and other countries since the publication of allegations against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.

“Insistent or awkward pickups aren’t a crime,” the letter said. “This fever for sending ‘pigs’ to the abattoir [slaughterhouse], far from helping empower women, in reality serves the interests of the enemies of sexual liberation.”

The letter signed by Ms. Deneuve sparked an angry response from many other French women, including former presidential candidate Ségolène Royal, who have rallied behind the outpouring of stories of sexual abuse on social media under the hashtag #balancetonporc, or “expose your pig.”

Ms. Deneuve, for her part, has long been an icon of empowered sexuality in France and abroad, with performances that helped define the sexual revolution of the 1960s. In “Belle de Jour,” one of her best-known roles, she plays a repressed Parisian homemaker who decides to become a prostitute by day.
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  • 2001400ex2001400ex Member Posts: 29,457
    PurpleThrobber said:

    A voice of reason.

    Catherine Deneuve was hot as fuck back in the day.


    Throbber posts a pic of a woman in a turtle neck? Really?
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  • 2001400ex2001400ex Member Posts: 29,457
    PurpleThrobber said:

    2001400ex said:

    PurpleThrobber said:

    A voice of reason.

    Catherine Deneuve was hot as fuck back in the day.


    Throbber posts a pic of a woman in a turtle neck? Really?
    Stalin discourages areolas.

    Race can Photoshop that for you.
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  • PurpleThrobberPurpleThrobber Member Posts: 44,519 Standard Supporter
    2001400ex said:

    PurpleThrobber said:

    2001400ex said:

    PurpleThrobber said:

    A voice of reason.

    Catherine Deneuve was hot as fuck back in the day.


    Throbber posts a pic of a woman in a turtle neck? Really?
    Stalin discourages areolas.

    Race can Photoshop that for you.



    The Throbber has workarounds.

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  • Doog_de_JourDoog_de_Jour Member Posts: 8,041 Standard Supporter
    edited January 2018
    GrundleStiltzkin said:

    In France, Some Say #MeToo Has Gone Too Far


    A battle has broken out in France between campaigners against sexual harassment and a group of prominent women who argue overzealous misconduct allegations threaten the country’s embrace of sexual freedom.

    Film star Catherine Deneuve and more than 100 French women this week published a letter in the newspaper Le Monde defending the lustful advances of their male compatriots, and denouncing what they call “puritanism” of the #MeToo campaign against sexual harassment that has taken root in the U.S. and other countries since the publication of allegations against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.

    “Insistent or awkward pickups aren’t a crime,” the letter said. “This fever for sending ‘pigs’ to the abattoir [slaughterhouse], far from helping empower women, in reality serves the interests of the enemies of sexual liberation.”

    The letter signed by Ms. Deneuve sparked an angry response from many other French women, including former presidential candidate Ségolène Royal, who have rallied behind the outpouring of stories of sexual abuse on social media under the hashtag #balancetonporc, or “expose your pig.”

    Ms. Deneuve, for her part, has long been an icon of empowered sexuality in France and abroad, with performances that helped define the sexual revolution of the 1960s. In “Belle de Jour,” one of her best-known roles, she plays a repressed Parisian homemaker who decides to become a prostitute by day.
    Good for her. As with any social movement that seeks to address societal ills, there sometimes are over corrections and unintended consequences. I think the issues that Deneuve and the other actresses are bringing up are a vital part of this conversation.

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  • Pitchfork51Pitchfork51 Member Posts: 27,019
    Doog_de_Jour said:

    GrundleStiltzkin said:

    In France, Some Say #MeToo Has Gone Too Far


    A battle has broken out in France between campaigners against sexual harassment and a group of prominent women who argue overzealous misconduct allegations threaten the country’s embrace of sexual freedom.

    Film star Catherine Deneuve and more than 100 French women this week published a letter in the newspaper Le Monde defending the lustful advances of their male compatriots, and denouncing what they call “puritanism” of the #MeToo campaign against sexual harassment that has taken root in the U.S. and other countries since the publication of allegations against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.

    “Insistent or awkward pickups aren’t a crime,” the letter said. “This fever for sending ‘pigs’ to the abattoir [slaughterhouse], far from helping empower women, in reality serves the interests of the enemies of sexual liberation.”

    The letter signed by Ms. Deneuve sparked an angry response from many other French women, including former presidential candidate Ségolène Royal, who have rallied behind the outpouring of stories of sexual abuse on social media under the hashtag #balancetonporc, or “expose your pig.”

    Ms. Deneuve, for her part, has long been an icon of empowered sexuality in France and abroad, with performances that helped define the sexual revolution of the 1960s. In “Belle de Jour,” one of her best-known roles, she plays a repressed Parisian homemaker who decides to become a prostitute by day.
    Good for her. As with any social movement that seeks to address societal ills, there sometimes over corrections and unintended consequences. I think the issues that Deneuve and the other actresses are bringing up are a vital part of this conversation.

    I think I should be allowed to sexually harass with impunity.

    But your point is valid too I guess.



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  • Fire_Marshall_BillFire_Marshall_Bill Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 24,148 Founders Club
    As always, posting a hashtag is useless grandstanding and virtue signaling...and a means of getting attention

    so's changing your fagbook avatar to the flag of the latest country to get bombed by muslims or dumping water on your head
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  • DerekJohnsonDerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 64,057 Founders Club
    PurpleThrobber said:

    2001400ex said:

    PurpleThrobber said:

    A voice of reason.

    Catherine Deneuve was hot as fuck back in the day.


    Throbber posts a pic of a woman in a turtle neck? Really?
    Stalin discourages areolas.

    Au contraire #WigWamForevah
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