A United Nations report highlights femicide as the most dangerous form of violence against women, with recent cases in France, such as the exploitation of Gisèle Pelicot, drawing national attention and protests against gender-based violence. The case has sparked discussions on the resilience of misogyny and the need for comprehensive societal change.
, a United Nations paper reported last week. It was referring to femicide, the killing of women by a partner or former partner, but as we’ve learned over the past three months during the, 72, and the 50 “ordinary” men who visited Gisèle Pelicot, 72, when she was drugged and comatose, to have sex with her inert body, home offers no haven for the living either.
Misogyny, however, is adaptable and resilient, as is the ability of the patriarchy to protect its most perverted and powerful. Change was promised after the exposure of Jimmy Savile Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein and others.
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