Posted on 05/23/2016 3:23:46 PM PDT by reaganaut1
PARIS — With its guffawing masculine hilarity, the National Assembly, France’s lower house of Parliament, would not be put to shame by the most boisterous American state legislature. The marble-and-velvet setting may be more elegant, but the rowdy laughter says the same thing: Men dominate.
Over the last week, that male world has been shaken. The Assembly’s vice president, Denis Baupin, was forced to resign after several women came forward publicly with accusations that he had sexually harassed numerous female colleagues for years.
One said Mr. Baupin had pushed her against a wall, grabbed one of her breasts and tried to force a kiss. Others said he had sent explicit text messages. Another said he had chased her around a desk. Still another, that he had pinched her buttocks.
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The affair has proved embarrassing to the male-dominated political class — 75 percent of the Assembly’s members are men — not least because Mr. Baupin was a leading member of the Greens, one of France’s most feminist-friendly political parties.
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Elen Debost, another of the four women who came forward by name to expose him, wrote in an open letter to the Greens that she was “nauseated” and “vomited” after seeing him in a March photo jauntily wearing lipstick, in supposed support of International Women’s Day.
The condemnation has been stark. Prominent Frenchwomen in politics — 16 former ministers — have made a public vow to “never shut up again,” writing in the Sunday newspaper Journal du Dimanche. This time “it’s too much,” the women wrote. “Omertà and the law of silence are no longer possible.”
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“One said Mr. Baupin had pushed her against a wall, grabbed one of her breasts and tried to force a kiss.”
Horribly after eating an onion sandwich.
White heterosexual males, the source of all the world’s problems.
... and America’s feminists want to put Bill Clinton back in the White House.... alongside his enabler-in-chief
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