Posted on 01/09/2018 9:04:26 PM PST by Olog-hai
A collective of 100 prominent French women, including famed actress Catherine Deneuve, have denounced the “puritanism” that followed in the wake of allegations against Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, declaring that men should be “free to hit on” women.
The letter in Le Monde, signed by around 100 French women writers, performers and academics, deplored the wave of “denunciations” that has followed claims that producer Weinstein raped and sexually assaulted women over decades. They claimed that the “witch-hunt” that has followed threatens sexual freedom.
“Rape is a crime, but insistent or clumsy flirting is not, nor is gallantry a macho aggression,” said the letter signed by women including Catherine Millet, author of the explicit 2002 memoir The Sexual Life of Catherine M, and French actress Catherine Robbe-Grillet.
While they admit that the Weinstein affair had its uses, calling it “necessary” in exposing how some men abuse their power, their letter goes on to say that the allegations have gone too far. …
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Wonder what scared them. Guess the prospect of men leaving them alone.
Dear Penthouse...
Well, Catherine Millet did not intrigue me. I did have a crush on Deneuve when I was younger, though.
Catherine Deneuve (2017)
She aged better than Brigitte Bardot.
At its core, feminism is an anti fertility cult.
There need to be clear and objective standards.
No unsolicited contact is one.
Blecht! Normally, don’t like painted faces, but those gals definitely need a few coats of makeup!
Go figure, French people refusing to surrender, whereas Americans all but have....
Um, how can there be absolute unsolicited contact? Or, do you mean physical? Otherwise, neither party is allowed to initiate contact.
And, even with physical contact, then there would be a lot of missed first kisses. I am so glad I grew up in the 70’s.
The lady gets it.
Thanks for the clarity. You might add, "...and a lust for victim status."
But Harvey is a pig, and perhaps a rapist.
There shouldn’t be any unsolicited physical contact outside of romantic relationships.
>>There shouldn’t be any unsolicited physical contact outside of romantic relationships.
So before making first physical contact, the touch-er must have a form signed by the target touch-ee, endorsed by no less than three notaries, verifying a romantic relationship exists? Is this where we are at?
Because it sure seems that way, and seems to be what you are implying.
This is madness.
When Mrs. BwanaNdege first met me while we were in (a Northern) college, she was told by her roommate to “stay away from him, because he’s a ‘masher’”.
The future Mrs. BN asked, why do you say that he’s a ‘masher’?
“Because he holds doors open for girls, lots of girls!”
To which Mrs. BN replied, “Oh, he’s from the South. They are like that down there.”
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