This sentence from Léa Salamé on sexual violence is a “reversal of guilt”, according to these victims

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“You had the courage to say no… Where others let themselves be done”: it is this sentence from Léa Salamé to Juliette Binoche which provoked numerous reactions.

VIOLENCE – After his remarks on stopping alcohol which would make “ tiresome », the host and journalist Léa Salamé once again created controversy with a comment on sexual violence… On France Inter, this May 1, she spoke to Juliette Binoche, who recently spoke in Release sexual assault and harassment suffered throughout his career.

“ You tell everything in fact, the touching, this kiss that a certain director imposed on you, this other who groped you by force in your dressing room… she lists. But you say: “Very quickly, I said no, that’s enough, I have my lover.” You had the courage to say no… Where others let themselves go. »

This last sentence made victims of gender-based and sexual violence (SGBV) jump, who denounced a “ reversal of guilt » between aggressor and victim. “ I was raped at the age of 7 by a guy who was 17. Obviously I didn’t have “the courage to say no”. The hierarchy between good and bad victims and blaming reinforces SGBV. Léa Salamé is a dangerous journalist”one of them says indignantly X.

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“My whole body said no”

Among the victims, some recalled that when faced with an attack, reactions are multiple and varied. That no hierarchy exists and that the mechanics of trauma are complex. “Personally, I couldn’t say no. I did not succeed. It was impossible. But I didn’t “let myself do it”, as you say. My whole body was saying no. Have you heard of control, dissociation or astonishment? “, responded historian and feminist Élodie Jouneau.

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“ When PPDA attacked me in its office on June 25, 2008, I was unable to react. I screamed. “Patrick open this door!”, but I couldn’t move. My body did what it could. Afterwards I don’t remember anything anymore. Astonishment. Dissociation », Testified Emmanuelle Dancourt, journalist and president of #MetooMedia.

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Others also recalled that saying no, when faced with someone who does not respect the notion of consent, can prove futile. “ Personally I said no, kindly, more firmly, joking, crying, getting angry, daily, for almost six months. So Léa Salamé’s mediocre opinion, I think I don’t give a damn », protests another victim.

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Several denounced the distinction still strong in the collective imagination between the so-called “ good ” And ” bad ” victims. “ How sad that the public service is still participating in 2024 in the reversal of guilt and rape culture. No Léa Salamé, there are not the good victims who have the courage to say no and the bad ones who “let it happen”. Only one culprit: the attacker, period », Supported Paris LFI MP Sarah Legrain.

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“ Feminism is not idolizing “powerful women” by dreaming of being like them, it is speaking and fighting for those who never responded, who cannot say no, who never left », recalled the activist and author Rose Lamy on X to the attention of Léa Salamé, in reference to her show “ Powerful women », broadcast from 2019 to 2021.

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“My whole body said no”

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