This week I’ve been following the trial of Dominique Pelicot, a 71-year-old man who is accused of drugging his wife over a period of nine years so that he could invite dozens of men into their home to abuse her.
Thank you Rosie - such an important piece. There’s so much here that resonates with Rebecca Solnit’s writings in Men Explain Things to Me: That made clear to me the continuum that stretches from minor social misery to violent silencing and violent death (and I think we would understand misogyny and violence against women even better if we looked at the abuse of power as a whole rather than treating domestic violence separately from rape and murder and harassment and intimidation, online and at home and in the workplace and in the streets; seen together, the pattern is clear).”
Thank you Rosie - such an important piece. There’s so much here that resonates with Rebecca Solnit’s writings in Men Explain Things to Me: That made clear to me the continuum that stretches from minor social misery to violent silencing and violent death (and I think we would understand misogyny and violence against women even better if we looked at the abuse of power as a whole rather than treating domestic violence separately from rape and murder and harassment and intimidation, online and at home and in the workplace and in the streets; seen together, the pattern is clear).”