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The harsh spirit cannot serve as an excuse for sexist actions, harassment, sexual assault, denounces a collective of caregivers. They describe a locked patriarchal hierarchical system and demand an end to impunity.
In 2020, following the Césars ceremony, Virginie Despentes published an article in the same newspaper: “Now we get up and get out of the way”. Today in 2024, at the Hospital, we want to affirm: “From now on we get up, we stay, and we put an end to impunity”. Never again should it be said that we speak but you do not hear.
All of us, doctors, nurses, caregivers, administrative staff, work and have been trained at the Hospital and we are attached to it.
For what ? To take care of each other. Visible or invisible work, what do we have in common? To have discovered from our first step in this very small world that to be able to train ourselves, to be able to practice our profession, we were going to have to endure quasi-institutional sexist and sexual violence.
What are we talking about ? Of a system. There too, like in the cinema, we laugh, it’s not saucy, it’s witty! There will therefore always be an excuse for the behavior suffered! The carabin spirit, this so-called folkloric particularity of French medical studies would therefore allow us to hear daily phrases like: “Go hold the spreader as you spread your thighs!”, “Don’t act scared!” , “Well, you’re beautiful and I want to, you should be flattered”, “OK, I’ll take you on as head of clinic if you agree not to
