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Revealing the impunity of violence against women and the appropriation of their bodies which persists, the Mazan rape trial must give new impetus to continue and intensify the fight, according to the journalist and essayist.
A hole, emptiness, nothing. Informed. It can be penetrated for no reason. Because that’s how it is, because it’s not even up for discussion. Because that’s all they’re waiting for. They speak like this. They repeat the same litanies. And this from the beginning. We believed that, we thought that, she must be libertine. Not guilty, not responsible. Perhaps so that we can understand them better, they explain that they took advantage of an “opportunity”: the availability on a website of a woman offered by her husband and who was only waiting for this: to to be raped. This must please her and her husband, they said to themselves. This sleeping body, this immobile body, this body as if dead, this rag doll body that we could manipulate as we wanted, they don't talk about it, it hasn't questioned them so much. So they talk about a marital scenario, about libertine staging. She probably wanted him. Maybe she was pretending. And since it didn't move, we could do what we wanted with it. Having sex with someone who is there physically, but not psychologically
