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the men who joined Pelicot in the dock were bakers, they were journalists, they were prison officers, they were accountants, they were young, they were old, they were single, they were married, they were fathers to daughters. But they all had one thing in common, a desire to dominate, to defile, to control, to penetrate, to humiliate. A love of rape.
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Some of them knew Gisele Pelicot, some of them made small talk with her in the street, in the boulangerie, all the time knowing what she didn’t, that they had raped her as she lay unconscious in her bed and her husband had filmed them.
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performance art of Marina Abramovic during this trial, the one she did in Naples in the 1970s where she lay out a table with 69 objects on it and invited those who attended her exhibition to do what they wanted to her, as she stood naked – vulnerable – in front of them.
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Guess which ones the men picked up to use on her? They cut her, they defiled her, they did what they would with her while she stood there in front of them. Even in a gallery (nice men who go to galleries) they saw her as a piece of meat, not a human, just as those men had who stood in the dock in Avignon these last couple of months.
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You could argue she has more right to believe she is safe inside her own home than passed out in a public park. You could argue that makes the rape more of an aggravated assault
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clearly the judge did not think so, and those light sentences tell us one thing, that somewhere, in the deep, dark recesses of that judge’s mind, he also believes that Dominique Pelicot had a right to give consent for his wife, so these men were, in some ways, victims of him too and should not be punished in the same way as he has been.
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they knew he had harmed another female in his life, but the suffering of women and children is not taken seriously, and if it had been that little girl, and many kids like her, would still be alive because the fact he likes to harm his wife says something about his psychology.
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It is easier to find fault in women than hold a man accountable for his crimes.