Dear government, get out of Dijon! – dijoncter.info
Communiqué of the November 25 Collective on the occasion of the government’s visit this Friday, November 25, 2022 on the occasion of the day for the fight against gender violence.
The government comes to Dijon. We learn the news with a little suspicion. What is he doing here, on the day of the international day of November 25 ? Does he come to see the anger of the victims of gender violence ? Already, in the Parisian delegation which deigns to come down from its Parisian pedestal, there is the rapist minister and the misogynist minister. Of course, it doesn’t smell good.
Well, we were right to be suspicious.
On November 23, two days before the government’s trip, what was published by the Prefect ? A ban.
Prohibition of gender violence ? No violation ? Prohibition of hitting, dominating, insulting, chasing in the street, harassing, contradicting psychologically ? No. Ban on coming to speak to Messrs. Macron, Dupont-Moretti, and Darma-rapist.
Apparently these gentlemen are afraid to hear our words. They fear our words and our anger, as if they were not the fruit of a society of which they are both responsible and representatives. The right to protest is a constitutional right. November 25 is the International Day Against Gender Violence. In which country do we see a government hiding in a gendarmerie school and in a court to avoid a discussion with a feminist demonstration ? It’s laughable.
Gender violence is not a matter for the gendarmerie or the courts. Gender violence is in our bodies, in our lives, in our traumas, in our anger, in our cries, in our struggles. We refuse the possibility of coming, with these bodies, these lives, these traumas, these angers, these cries, to express ourselves near the members of the government: it is an additional violence. It is silence. It is the denial of our experiences. It is to deny us the right to express ourselves politically, in the public space in sight and in the ears of all, and not behind closed doors in the hostile places represented by Justice and the Police. El estado opresor is a macho violador !
They prefer “ talk between men “. They prefer to exchange with associations of victims strangled by the number of cases to be processed without adequate financial means. They prefer to talk about isolated individual responsibilities in some men, rather than acknowledging that the problem lives in every straight cisgender man. We are not born violent, we become violent.
Toxic masculinity costs, however, and it should be more inviting to listen to it, so keen on saving billions that they are. Toxic masculinity, male domination, virility: it costs France 95.2 billion a year. And yet, feminist associations still do not have their billion. It’s not for lack of asking nicely without showing the fangs.
Manu, Gérald, Éric, see, it’s not our style. We’re not going to wait nicely. We will not wait for the approval of this society to legitimize our right to defend ourselves and fight back against gender violence and injustice. We know we are powerful against you. If you’re trying to muzzle us, you’re afraid we’re talking. If you want us isolated, you fear our potential revolutionary feminist unions. If you limit our right to demonstrate, it is because you fear the spread of this hope.
Come on, see you tomorrow.
Collective November 25