You are telling us about a concern…
Who tormented a writer and feminist activist, who had dreamed of a society “of women among themselves”, without men, who assumed separation and confrontation with these men who, having all the privileges, had everything to lose and would refuse change…
But she also wondered if the anger and hatred that women had to display to escape would no longer “live like bats, work like animals, die like worms” she said, quoting a great ancestor from the 17th century. .. She therefore wondered if this anger and hatred would not turn against women, “making us powerless”…
And so in Libération a man makes me understand differently the legendary Monique Wittig, founder of the MLF in another century, whose radicalism and concern announced contemporary feminism… And you have to read this text signed Philippe Lançon, who read Wittig as the we are re-editing, to prolong and complete the discussion about Elisabeth Badinter that we have just heard… And also to measure to what extent the reader models the text that we offer them.
Because Lançon is of his type and his age, in his sixties, a well-read journalist and writer who is often skeptical about modernity… And his male gauze finds in Wittig something to attenuate the separation of the sexes that she advocated. He finds Wittig all the more relevant as she was an excellent writer, refusing that writing be gendered, overwhelmed by two lines from Rimbaud, “In the woods there is a bird / Its song stops you and makes you blush”, and who expressed his gratitude to the male writers of the past who masked their homosexuality by inventing lesbian characters… “Where would I be without them? When I was 15 they told me everything I needed to know.” Paradoxes of invisible times…
Elisabeth Badinter, who asks men to make one more effort in her latest book to stave off extinction and separation, is on the cover of Le Point, which headlines on Distrust, the divide that has been established between men and women… We are talking here about young people, young girls, those who are not 25 years old, who seem to look at the world from two hostile countries… Boys becoming radicalized on the right in a virilist surge, supporters of the death penalty, the systematic expulsion of illegal immigrants and the return of migrant ships… The girls showing themselves to be progressive, open, followers of veganism, inclusive writing, listening to the word of women victims, and the ban on bullfighting… This is a survey that Le Point illustrates, which joins other international studies including the Financial Times and on this channel Dov Alfon have echoed, because it is not only in France that young people diverge, and sometimes radically. In South Korea, they are asserting themselves young masculinists capable of hitting young women whose short hair attacks them, or of spraying sperm on the opposite sex who has become the enemy. What would Monique Wittig write about it…
Le Point still remembers Alice Milliat who a century ago organized women’s sport against official Olympics. A biography is dedicated to this woman whose name would have been given to the new arena at the chapel door, it was not necessary to first honor a sponsor – orange – at each time its frustrations. Sud-Ouest tells me of the frustrations of rugby players who cannot make a living from their talent, despite being valiant ones.
We also talk about a dog…
Who barked when the SFR technician came in and the customer said to Sofiane, “sorry, but my dog doesn’t like Arabs, don’t take that the wrong way.” »… And when he told this to his superior, the boss told him that he was just starting out and that he had to shut up and work…
And as he was really starting out, freshly arrived in France, Sofiane kept quiet – but now he speaks, he and other telecom technicians working as subcontractors for SFR Orange or Free, of Malian, Senegalese, Algerian-Moroccan origin, who must accumulate interventions to live and therefore support the racism that floats in this country… They talk about a Whats app group initially dedicated to technical files but which is now their outlet – and that Street press, online describes to us.
The customer who starts shouting “You foreign technicians are lazy, the door is this way.” Go away “. The client who locks you up until the intervention is finished, the client who says to you: “You don’t even speak French correctly, you stupid idiot”, the client who explains to you that Zemmour is right and that the North Africans should do better integrate, the customer who refuses to shake your hand because you take bread from the French…
Should I link this shameful litany, to the desire to leave of these French Muslims told by Nouvel Obs, analyzing a book by three researchers, “France, you love it but you leave it”… And I discover that There are thousands of them, a little less than 200,000, often well qualified, who have left our country since the attacks of 2015, to find rest far from the suspicion of distrust, jokes and unease – in the Emirates, a Muslim land, but as well in the United Kingdom, in Canada, where they will not be asked for accounts or proof of integration… And each vacation, each return to their native country convinces them that the real return is illusory, as France would be imbued with an “atmospheric Islamophobia” – a serious and ironic term diverting the word “atmospheric jihadism” invented by Gilles Kepel… Le Parisien also recounts this wounded love, like Le Monde, which last week published a similar article, it is still online: I read a man who had to show a photo of his wife in a swimsuit to prove that he was not a fundamentalist.
Besides this in the Nouvel Obs again, you read Omar Sy, also exiled in America but simply to offer his children a normal life, despite his celebrity, he says that he prays, because we must believe in God rather than believing himself to be God, he says Trappes of his childhood and wonders about our hatreds today…
In Le Point again and in a book there is a dialogue between the writers Kamel Daoud and Abnousse Shalmani who we also read in L’Express… He is Algerian, she born in Iran, and both in their metic looks, their beautiful language, saying the love of France as it is, which allows them to be individuals… How can we bring together the views that we inspire?
We’re finally talking about a soldier…
Who is beautiful as an angel, on the front page of L’Humanité, his rifle adorned with a carnation, and he is the image of the immense hope that took over Portugal fifty years ago today, when the revolution brought down the dictatorship…
Paris-Match celebrates its 75th anniversary by bringing together the Splendid gang, Lhermitte Clavier Balasko, complete, we weren’t bored at the Pasteur high school in Neuilly where a teacher once refused to allow Jugnot and Blanc to be in the same class, the schools were innocent .
In the Cross, but also on the sites of Sud-Ouest, Charlie Hebdo, Le Figaro, I am told that we must read, rediscover, discover the Bordeaux writer Raymond Guérin, whom Vichy had deprived of Goncourt in 1941, when he was in the stalag, a prisoner… The look he had on his raw times, his harshness, his tenderness, push me into a bookstore? One of his books is called “Return from Barbary”, I beg, if we ever go there.