Pelícot: Rapists are not monsters
Opinions by Maria Joao Faustino, EWL Executive Member, and Marta Asensio, Survivor and feminist activist
Pelícot: Rapists are not monsters
By Maria João Faustino, EWL Executive Committee Member
[The original text in Portuguese was published in Público and is available here.]
The monsterisation of the perpetrators is a strategy of comfort, which allows us to distance ourselves from the horror in an illusory way. The imaginary monster has a subtext: he is not one of us.
By now, we have all heard about the Mazan rape horror. For more than a decade, Dominique sedated Gisèle Pélicot, to whom he had (...)
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