YesIn the dock, 51 defendants pushed each other and shook our entire society. However, the rise of #metoo warned us: in our societies marked by sexism, women are dispossessed of their bodies. Gisèle Pelicot was raped almost a hundred times by ordinary people convinced that women are the sexual property of their husbands. Fifty-one men, most of whom lived within a radius of a few dozen kilometers, and to which we must add dozens of men who are missing because they cannot be identified. Mazan’s trial is one of chemical submission. It is also that of male domination – and not that of “all men”as feared by those who are more moved by the attribution of violence to men than by the torture and abuse inflicted on Gisèle Pelicot over a decade.
Symbolically, one absence from the dock stands out: that of the website Coco.gg, matchmaker for the attackers, the only common denominator of the accused. Of course, it is a digital entity, but its role in organizing rapes and executing alleged perpetrators is important. Its involvement in several criminal cases has also led to the judicial closure of the site and the seizure of servers.
Still. The incapacitation of the Coco site should not deceive us: it is far from being the only one within the vast constellation of digital places that concentrate a patriarchal culture impregnated with pornography. Today, X allows the distribution of pornographic content, Facebook allows linking delinquent children. No social network is free from Onlyfans ads [plateforme connue pour ses contenus érotiques et pornographiques] and it only takes a few clicks to access sexually explicit photos or videos.
Neurological impact
The Pelicot case is also, implicitly, the trial of a parallel world, a virtual world in which the rule of law has difficulty interfering and applying its laws. It can only question us about the trivialization of violence and unlimited access to degrading, humiliating and brutal content. These particularly diverse contents, however, have one thing in common: their violence is constantly directed against women.
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