We all dine together, in this milieu; we all know how it goes. Whether at the Assemblée Nationale or in the culture—enough hiding, enough pretending not to be upset.

They don’t love them in spite of the rapes, because they have talent.

We’re getting up.

This article was written by Virginie Despentes for Libération and published on March 1st, 2020 in the aftermath of Roman Polański’s award for Best Director at the Césars.

Alors que des féministes ont prévu de manifester contre les 12 nominations de son film Indignées, plusieurs associations féministes, qui n’acceptent plus comme une partie de l’opinion publique que le cinéaste franco-polonais reçoive des honneurs – alors qu’il est visé depuis novembre 2019 par Le collectif féministe #NousToutes a annoncé notamment qu’il organiserait un happening au cours duquel il décernerait à des cinéastes Par ailleurs, une trentaine de personnalités du septième art, réalisateurs et acteurs, réclament jeudi dans une tribune au Les acteurs Aïssa Maïga, Edouard Montoute ou Firmine Richard, le rappeur et acteur Stomy Bugsy, les réalisateurs Mathieu Kassovitz, Olivier Assayas et Olivier Marchal figurent parmi les signataires de ce texte, à l’initiative de l’acteur Eriq Ebouaney (Parce qu’une autre personne (ou vous) est en train de lire Ce message s’affichera sur l’autre appareil.

Your body, your eyes, your back, your voice, all your gestures say it: yes, we are dumb bitches, we are the ones who’ve been humiliated, yes, we only have to shut our mouths and take your blows, you’re the boss, you have the power and the arrogance that goes with it, but we will not remain seated without saying anything. Adèle Haenel Walked Out of the Césars the Moment Roman Polanski Won Best Director – Watch Snubbed by the French film awards, the "Portrait of a … I don’t see any difference of behaviour.

There is nothing surprising in the fact that you’ve thus sanctified Polański: it’s always money we’re celebrating; in these ceremonies we don’t give a shit about the cinema. So when you heard people talking about the subtle comparison between a filmmaker being heckled by a hundred feminists in front of three movie theatres and Dreyfus, a victim of French anti-Semitism at the turn of the last century, you jumped on board. For women who have had the courage to speak out about the abuse they suffered, there is an enormous pain seeing this man distinguished,” said Le Menn.“We ask women to come forward and speak out and they see not only are there no consequences for their aggressors, but those same aggressors are honoured in this way.”Polanski fled and found refuge in France.

We’re shouting: Go fuck yourselves.Feeling inspired by MAI? I think it’s unfair Polanski is given all these honours,” he said.“Giving Polanski a prize was quite a statement. That is, those who are like them, who are powerful. I would trade 80% of my feminist books for that image. They find them talented and stylish because they are rapists.

How to walk in high heels: as if we were going to tear the whole building down.

The strongest defend their rights: it’s part of your elegance, rape is even the foundation of your very style. She was the only one who dared make a joke about the elephant in the room; everyone else avoided mentioning it. Bodies that clam up, that don’t tell stories from their point of view. And the only people you tolerate around you are the most docile of lackeys.

We have no respect for the mockery you make of respectability.

Your pleasure dwells in preying, that is your only understanding of style. It comes with the territory, and if you have to get the message to us through terror you don’t see what the problem is.

For months you have had your panties in a twist that part of the public is being listened to, and for months you have suffered because Adèle Haenel has spoken up about her experience as a child actress, from her own point of view.So all the bodies in that room that evening had been gathered together with one end in mind: to validate the absolute power of the men in charge. You are a gruesome bunch of imbeciles.

So much silence, so much submission, so much pressing into servitude.

It’s probably a prophetic image of the days to come.

Amazing.

Six mois après le Brexit, les espoirs britanniques de signer des accords de libre-échange s’envolentMalgré la récession et la crise sanitaire, les GAFA pèsent désormais 4 900 milliards de dollarsEconomie : « Les importantes opportunités en faveur du paradigme de la frugalité technologique soutenable »Au Liban, un système politique unique au monde (et en panne)Pourquoi les hommes sont plus riches que les femmes en France. What happened yesterday was wrong and I have been saying this for ever. Polanski’s film, J’Accuse (An Officer and a Spy), about the Dreyfus affair, was nominated for 12 Césars, and won two others – for best adaptation and best costume design. The law of silence prevails. Not a word about Polański, not a word about Adèle Haenel. The time has come for the richest to hear this message: the respect we owe them will from now on extend to their dicks, stained with the blood and the faeces of the children they’ve raped.

Enjoy your bullshit on your own. O you great and powerful leaders, you lot who are in charge: it hurts. No matter how well we know you, no matter how many times we’ve taken your power on the chin, it always hurts. * We'll never share your email address with any third parties.The team of MAI supporters and contributors is always expanding. Critics say best director award for J’accuse highlights a deep problem in French societyThe elite world of French cinema, one of the pillars of the country’s Several actresses walked out on Friday night as the César The award was viewed as provocative and a slap in the face for sexual abuse victims and #MeToo campaigners who have struggled to gain recognition in On Saturday, Ursula Le Menn, an activist with Osez le Féminisme (“Dare to be feminist”), the group that organised the protest outside the ceremony, said the award showed that nothing had changed in the world of French cinema.

You do not have our respect. It’s grotesque, it’s insulting, it’s vile, but it’s not surprising.